Doctors don't do it. Attorneys don't do it. Physical therapists, insurance agents, title agents, audiologist, and nurse practitioners don't do it. Who came up with the fishbowl model of retail pharmacy anyway?
When employed as a prescreening tool, care must be taken to avoid overdiagnosis of healthy individuals without diabetes.
Respondents to this year's business outlook survey are generally upbeat about the business their pharmacies are doing and their prospects for the coming year.
FDA advised healthcare professionals not to use magnesium sulfate injection for more than 5-7 days to stop preterm labor in pregnant women.
Douglas Hoey, CEO of NCPA, discusses what independent pharmacies can do to handle an influx of patients and what the chain’s situation means for the pharmacy landscape.
The CDC estimates that 83 million Americans have prediabetes and that 84% of them don’t know it and community pharmacy can play a major role in preventing diabetes.
All hospital and health systems must decide whether to use multiple-dose vials or single-dose vials of drugs, a decision that usually rests on two considerations: Cost reduction and patient safety. The pros and cons of the two systems lead to an inescapable conclusion.
Confronted with these three common scenarios in your daily practice of pharmacy, what would you do?
When pharmacists manage drug therapy for physicians, diabetes patients see a significant improvement in key measures.
Good Neighbor Pharmacy stores in 19 states are now providing immunization services to patients without doctor’s prescriptions.
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The management of oral oncology drugs is an unending series of responsibilities involving safety issues, billing requirements, patient needs, prescriber details, and reimbursement challenges.
Study links discrepancy to adults’ misbeliefs about vaccine safety
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the Department of Health and Human Services recently awarded the University of Connecticut a 5-year contract and up to $1 million per year to establish a new Evidence-based Practice Center.
A compounding leader takes issue with FDA's position that compounding is the production of a new drug that needs to be approved.
In the prescription drug market, discriminatory pricing is common for independent community pharmacies and their patients. This fall, a Federal District Court in New York will consider a critical case: Drug Mart Pharmacy Corp. et a. v. American Home Products Corp. et al. The outcome of the case may determine whether discriminatory pricing techniques are illegal.
More than 23 million Americans, close to 8 percent of the population, have diabetes. For drugstores, the medical nature of their retail business makes them the outlet of choice for shoppers purchasing diabetes products. Retail pharmacists may choose to maximize patient awareness by placing their diabetes-care display and educational literature near the pharmacy counter.
Instead of giving out cards that reduce the copay of a prescription, why not just decrease the price per bottle of medication?
New drugs for acute migraines are almost ready for prime time. Here's what you need to know.
A round-up of apps that can improve the pharmacy bottom line and help with patient care
Keep reading to learn about some legal roadblocks in the way of pharmacy technicians.
Adding pharmacists to the hospital discharge process is shown to have a positive effect on combating hospital readmission rates
Adding pharmacists to the hospital discharge process is shown to have a positive effect on combating hospital readmission rates