The National Community Pharmacists Association today released a national survey assessing public attitudes toward medication synchronization programs intended to simplify prescription medication renewals and improve medication adherence. The survey, produced for the association by Langer Research Associates, finds promising results of such programs and substantial customer satisfaction benefits for pharmacies that undertake them.

See the NCPA’s announcement here, the full report here and an infographic here.

ESPN is reporting today on a national survey we’ve produced for the network on the Ray Rice domestic violence controversy. See ESPN’s coverage here, and the methodology here. We’ve seen pickup by a wide range of news outlets, including the New York Post, the Huffington Post, the Miami Herald, the New York Daily News, the New York Business Journal, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, New York’s ABC affiliate, Houston’s ABC affiliate and Baltimore’s CBS affiliate. Coverage by the Associated Press has been picked up by several news outlets as well, including ABC News, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Providence Journal, the Durango Herald, the Charlotte News and Observer, the Indiana Gazette, the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram and the Kennebec Journal.

Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll has been picked up, beyond ABC (video clip here) and the Post, by news outlets including NPR,USA Today, PBS Newshour, CBS News, the BBC, Politico, The Hill, the New York Times, Bloomberg News (here and here), the (U.K.) Daily Mail, theChicago Sun-Times, The Daily Caller and Business Insider, among others.

ESPN reported today on a national survey we’ve produced for the network on the Washington Redskins’ team name. We’ve seen pickup byUSA Today, The Washington Post, the Washington Times and ABC News, among others – plus 1,700+ comments on ESPN’s site. Methodology here.

Gary Langer talks about the pleasures and pitfalls of polling in the latest issue of “For the Defense,” the monthly flagship publication of DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar, a national association of civil defense lawyers and in-house counsel. Fun piece – see it here.

Langer Research Associates, Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and the Horticultural Society of New York today announced the start of a research project studying the potential impact of a new natural urban open space on the nature-related attitudes and experiences of nearby residents. See details here.

We’ve seen extensive pickup of our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll the past week, in news outlets including Time magazine, CNN (here and here), The New York Times, the Huffington Post (here, here and here), The Wall Street Journal, PBS NewsHour, The New Yorker, Forbes,Politico, MSNBC (here and here), Bloomberg News, Reuters, The Hill (here and here), RealClearPolitics, the Washington Examiner, The Christian Science Monitor and Yahoo News.

Gary Langer and Matthew Warshaw of D3 Systems and the Afghan Center for Socio-economic and Opinion Research presented polling on the upcoming Afghan election today at the Pakistan Afghanistan Federation Forum, a weekly briefing hosted by the U.S. Department of Defense at the Pentagon. See the slides here.

Langer Research Associates produces public opinion polls for the ABC News television network, including representing ABC in its partnership in the ongoing ABC News/Washington Post poll. Please click here for a newly updated summary of the methodology used in these surveys and our survey reporting standards.

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Bloomberg News today reported a national survey on customer reaction to the data breach at Target stores. The survey, conducted for Bloomberg by Langer Research Associates, received additional coverage from several other news outlets, including the Detroit News, The Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Pioneer Press (in St. Paul, Minnesota), the Austin American-Statesman, The Hill, The Columbian (in Clark County, Washington), Business Times, Finance & Commerce and multifarious financial news websites.