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Cost vs. value: Healthcare shifts its focusValue-based care is transforming the world of healthcare. Simple cost management must give way to utilization management, and alignment of stakeholder services is inevitable.
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Pharmacists and unionization: It’s later than you thinkPharmacists need to unionize. You've heard all the reasons. Here's another one -- and it's time-sensitive.
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Pharmacists on the frontline of preventive healthcare servicesFor patients, preventive services are a vital healthcare resource. For the healthcare delivery system, they produce cost savings. Pharmacists are a key link.
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FDA approves ceftazidime-avibactam to treat two complicated infectionsThe combination product is indicated to treat either complicated intra-abdominal infections, where it is used in combination with metronidazole, or complicated urinary tract infections in patients with few or no other treatment options.
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Pharmaceuticals and pharmaphobesIt can take years to establish the safety and efficacy of new drug therapies. What should we do in the meantime?
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15 keys to the New PharmacyIn Part 3 of "The New Pharmacy," Mark Burger takes you through the daily checklist of a successful practice.
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The market side of biosimilarsR&D and product manufacture are only the beginning. When the time comes to enter the marketplace, biosimilars still face numerous obstacles.
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FDA approves PAH treatmentSelexipag is a first-in-class oral treatment option to reduce progression and hospitalization for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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Sterile compounding: Regulations, best practices, and industry standardsWhere things stand, where they're headed, and what you need to do now.
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“Pharmacists, lobby your legislators!” says BOP insiderIf you want improved working conditions in the pharmacy, you're gonna hafta help.
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How pharmacists should be fighting the heroin epidemicOnce we as individuals in the healthcare profession finally begin to accept addiction as a disease and not a moral failing, the affected individuals will have a better chance at recovery and we will gain a better understanding of this epidemic.
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Pharmacy of tomorrowTomorrow's pharmacists and pharmacies will need to find ways to increase profit margins by reducing the cost of prescribing, embracing technology, and focusing more on patient counseling, immunizations, education, and other offshoots of their clinical expertise.
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Niche pharmacies serve children and the elderlySpecialty pharmacies are developing to meet the growing needs of children and senior citizens.
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Drug Topics CPE accreditor begins 3-year service to AACPDuring the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual Meeting in Kissimmee, Fla. in mid-July, Jill Fitzgerald, PharmD, who is Drug Topics CPE accreditor, was sworn in as chair-elect to the AACP Continuing Professional Education Section.
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Pipeline drugs 2010Categories to watch in this year's diverse drug pipeline include oral agents to treat multiple sclerosis and a host of new diabetes, cardiovascular, and pain-management products.
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Is the pharmacist shortage over?Increasing enrollment in pharmacy schools and changing economic factors appear to have eased the national pharmacist shortage. In order to plan appropriately for all stakeholders, we need to quantify the numbers when we talk about a pharmacist shortage.
