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A look at how pharmacists can be involved with the "meaningful use" incentive program.

The Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), based in Minneapolis, Minn., significantly reduced hospital readmissions and emergency room visits by forming an accountable care organization (ACO) team.

A pharmacist looks at the life expectancy numbers in the U.S. and wonders how healthcare could have come so far, but still be failing patients.

Has the pharmacy grind made you dream of owning your own? It's not as simple as you might think.

A new study indicates that adults are keeping their hypertension in check.

A survey of new Rx, new generic, and new OTC products

After attending a high school reunion, a pharmacist reflects on what he'd learn through a reunion of his pharmacy career.

The first in a series of articles on the work that social media can do for pharmacists,

Readers discuss taking the time to research, the need for care when purchasing drugs, the need to be more visible to the public, and arguing that cyberconsulting is too dangerous to practice in.

The fungal meningitis outbreak can serve as a reminder of the need for risk management.

Two pharmacy students argue that the push needs to continue for attaining provider status and it's important to include students.

Almost $1.8 million was raised for research and educational initiatives at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation dinner Nov. 27.

Physicians Interactive and McKesson Patient Relationship Solutions are launching an automated pharmaceutical voucher and coupon distribution solution called eCoupon, according to press release.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is seeking public comment on its draft recommendation on adult screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) until Dec. 24, the agency announced.

Pesticides used incorrectly to treat infestations of beg bugs and other insects indoors can be harmful to humans, according to a health advisory from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a notice to three Walgreens pharmacies in Florida on Nov. 27, asking them to show why the DEA should not revoke their DEA registrations.

More than 40 lots of atorvastatin calcium tablets, the generic version of Pfizer?s Lipitor, are being recalled by Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc. (RPI) because they may contain glass particles that are estimated to be less than 1 mm in size, according to Ranbaxy's website.

An FDA advisory panel voted against making oxybutynin transdermal patch (Oxytrol, Merck and Watson Pharma) available over-the-counter (OTC) for overactive bladder (OAB) in women, Medpage Today reported.

FDA approved Influenza Virus Vaccine (Flucelvax, Novartis Vaccines), the first cell-culture-derived vaccine, for individuals aged 18 years of age and older.

The Obama administration moved ahead to implement provisions in the healthcare law that would make it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions.

Epidural abscess and other clinical syndromes are being diagnosed in patients exposed to three recalled, compounded steroid injection products, the CDC revealed Nov. 20 in a CDC health advisory which provides clinicians with updated diagnostic and treatment recommendations.

Prostaglandin inhibitors and calcium channel blockers were ranked as the top tocolytic therapy options in terms of outcomes of 48-hour delay in delivery, neonatal mortality, respiratory distress syndrome, and maternal side effects, according to a systematic review and network meta-analysis published Oct. 9 in BMJ.

Self-management has small effects on pain and disability in people with low back pain, according to a study published online in Arthritis Care & Research.

Sanofi is lowering the price of ziv-aflibercept (Zaltrap) for previously treated colorectal cancer by half after physicians at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) said that they would not use the drug, according to The New York Times.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) has developed a new online resource center to help its member pharmacists with sterile compounding issues.

The National Community Pharmacist Association (NCPA) teamed up with Purdue Pharma L.P. to introduce the fourth annual pharmacy safety and security video at www.RxPATROL.org.

Adding aliskiren to standard therapy with renin-angiotensin system blockade could be harmful and did not lower the risk of cardiovascular and renal adverse events when used in patients with type 2 diabetes at risk for these events, according to an online study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

During a four-hour hearing Nov. 14 led by the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg was asked if the FDA could have prevented the recent fungal meningitis outbreak.