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With only 15% of New York's healthcare providers ready for e-Rx of controlled substances, New York legislators have agreed to push back the March 27 deadline by one year.

Should a pharmacy or pharmacist be liable for filling valid and legal prescriptions written by a doctor? Pharmacy industry observers are watching closely as that answer is likely to be provided in a Florida court.

The list of pharmacist families continues to grow by leaps and bounds.

FDA has issued five draft documents on drug compounding and repackaging that are applicable to pharmacies, outsourcing facilities, and physicians.

A group of 55 pharmacies located mainly in Pennsylvania has turned to the courts to resolve reimbursement differences with Catamaran.

Recently, the Chapman University School of Pharmacy (CUSP) received its accreditation as the first pharmacy school in Orange County, CA. It will begin accepting students in September 2015 for an eight trimester accelerated doctor of pharmacy degree program. We asked CUSP’s Founding Dean Ronald P. Jordan, RPh, FAPhA, to address concerns of pharmacists that an abundance of pharmacy schools is producing a glut of pharmacists, higher industry unemployment, and will eventually drive down salaries.

Rite Aid Corp. has announced its plan buy pharmacy benefits manager EnvisionRx for about $2 billion.

Discounts and rebates negotiated by some third-party payers are ensuring the place of hepatitis C drugs in their formularies.

The pharmacist-owners of the Canadian franchises will not receive any compensation from Target, which wants them out by the end of the month.

Yes, it has one. Here's how to make it real.

There's something consumers can't get enough of. Some outfits offer it. Community pharmacy delivers.

Paper is about to become history in one of the largest prescription drug markets in the country.

If patients have multiple risk factors, daily low-dose aspirin may not make much difference to their potential for CV events.

A community hospital study found that a procedural change could save some big bucks.

A pharmacy student shares his first semester.

Letters, e-mails, posts, and comments from Drug Topics readers.

The next few years should produce some big wins - and some big winners.

Without either element, product and profits suffer. Pharmacists get it. But do their bosses?

Many patients have diabetes for between 10 and 20 years or more before DR develops, so the key to managing ocular complications in patients with diabetes is regular evaluations.

A pharmacist's failure to counsel can result in severe, life-changing consequences for the patient.

The untimely passing of the founding dean of the pharmacy school at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y., unites a community in mourning.

The feds are throwing the book at NECC. Here are some of the details.

Can-do exemplar is recognized for his many contributions to the profession of pharmacy.

A grab bag of products designed to keep those pearly whites in tiptop condition.

New drugs, new generics, new app of interest to pharmacists.

Salaries of entry-level health-system pharmacists are expected to decline by at least 10% over the next five years, predicts a new report from ASHP.

High-dose inactivated influenza vaccinations from community pharmacists during 2012-2013 flu season were more effective than standard-dose inactivated flu shots in patients 65 years and older, and helped in the prevention of influenza-associated hospitalizations, according to a comparative effectiveness study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Rite Aid recently announced the opening of 24 RediClinics inside pharmacies in Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia.