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Rhode Island legislators recently introduced a bill that would ban pharmacies throughout the state from selling tobacco products.

Inadequate reimbursement rates are threatening patient access to generic drugs and to community pharmacies, according to a recent survey by the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA).

Missouri pharmacists would like to see a prescription drug monitoring program program in their state, just not the one recently approved by state senators.

Sam’s Club is offering greater discounts and some free generic medications with an expanded prescription program for its Plus and Business Plus members.

Approximately 20 to 25 percent of patients using opioids for chronic pain have misused these drugs, according to a report published in the journal Pain.

Approximately one third of U.S. hospitals have completely migrated to the electronic health record (EHR) and are no longer using paper charts. In those hospitals with an EHR that they use completely or in combination with paper charts, 80% give pharmacists the ability to make recommendations and document them in the EHR.

The mission of this peer-reviewed journal is to offer a forum for pharmacists to share their research and quality improvement projects from their residency training in an effort to advance patient care and optimize medication use.

Target Canada Co. announced that it will close all its 133 Canadian retail locations on April 12, completing its inventory liquidation, according to a company statement.

Recently, state legislators in Colorado passed a biosimilars bill that would allow pharmacists to substitute a biosimilar drug for name-brand biologics in cases where the FDA has declared the drugs interchangeable.

Drug Topics readers had plenty to say about our recent article on metrics used against older pharmacists. So did readers of The Cynical Pharmacist, when they got wind of it. Here's a sample.

Experts provided advice on the implementation of AB 1535, the California law that allows pharmacists to furnish naloxone in California without a prescription, during a recent webinar hosted by the California Pharmacists Association.

The American Pharmacists Association this week adopted a policy discouraging pharmacists from providing drugs for use in lethal injections.

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has identified factors contributing to the top 10 vaccine-related errors and released a report with recommendations to combat these errors.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Durham, North Carolina, was awarded a $12 million contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the development and manufacture of its small molecule, BCX4430, for the prevention of Ebola virus reproduction.

The American Pharmacists Association is advocating for provider status, better patient access to pharmacies, support for MTM, and other initiatives at the congressional level this year.

Should generic drug makers be required to update their drug labels about safety concerns before FDA reviews the change? Should this be done even if the information differs from the brand name drug labels temporarily?

A pharmacist-physician team shows how to change oppositional relationships into partnerships.

The Joint Commission’s in-person surveys of hospital pharmacies are rigorous, said a hospital executive at the APhA annual meeting in San Diego, and preparation should be just as exacting.

At an event honoring Rear Admiral Scott F. Giberson held during the annual APhA conference in San Diego, industry leaders spoke frankly about the issues pharmacy faces today.

Starting in April, Coursera will offer a six-week course on vaccination that will discuss various vaccines, vaccine safety, related risks, and common questions.

The board of directors of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores recently joined President Barack Obama at the administration’s launch of its Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network.

That’s the assertion of four former CVS pharmacists who recently filed lawsuits in U.S. District Court in South Carolina claiming the retail giant created a metrics system that unfairly eliminates older workers and causes dispensing errors.

In the pharmacist's hierarchy of needs, which comes first? Provider status? Or getting paid for the work you're doing right now?

Interventions between Canadian pharmacists and patients who returned for follow-up improved diabetes outcomes significantly, according to a recently released study.

Last week, Grace Hospital in Winnipeg fired a pharmacist because the healthcare worker had allegedly accessed patient health information from 56 hospital patients, just “out of curiosity,” according to a report in the Winnipeg Sun.

The Institute of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has issued a warning about the potential for mix-ups between two drugs, neostigmine injection and phenylephrine, because of similar packaging.

More than 3,600 pharmacy graduates or soon-to-be graduates were matched with a residency position, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).

As healthcare facilities across the nation deal with shortages of certain drugs, including generics, pharmacists and pharmacy managers are tasked with the daily monitoring of drug supplies and increased communications with other healthcare professionals such as nurses and physicians.

FDA has approved cholic acid (Cholbam), a once-daily treatment for pediatric and adult patients who have bile acid synthesis disorders due to single enzyme defects. It is also approved as an adjunct to standard care for patients with peroxisomal disorders, such as Zellweger spectrum disorders.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy School has developed a website that will track drug overdoses in some Pennsylvania counties.