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Participants at a recent roundtable meeting, including government and industry representatives, agreed to move forward with creating a forum on standardizing prescription medication labels.

Pharmacists must learn how to ensure their own safety with pharmacies a common target for theft.

Three pharmacists are the proud recipients of Eisai's hhc (human health care) Pharmacist Recognition Award.

The Pharmacist Services Technical Advisory Coalition has received approval for permanent mediation therapy management service CPT codes.

Pharmacists worked tirelessly to help patients during the influenza pandemic that killed more than 600,000 Americans in 1918.

At its annual convention the Nation Community Pharmacy Association pushes for greater political influence, medication therapy management, and new business models.

Azor (amlodipine/olmesartan medoxomil, Daiichi Sankyo) was recently approved by the FDA as a once-daily, oral tablet containing both a calcium channel blocker and an angiotensin receptor blocker.

Aspirin is one treatment that can be used with patients with deep vein thrombosis.

Pharmacists rally to help fire evacuees of the San Diego wildfires.

Diclofenac gel approved for osteoarthritis

FDA approves new form of sevelamer for chronic kidney disease

Exubera (inhaled insulin) discontinued

AACP doesn't think pharmacists need to complete a residency before they can provide direct patient car

Make the Road New York protests pharmacies for not providing translation services.

A Chatham, N.J., pharmacy has installed 250 solar panels to cut energy costs and lower carbon emissions.

NACDS board member Navarro testifies on DMEPOS competitive bidding program.

Genentech has postponed the date for stopping the sale of Avastin to compounding pharmacies from Nov. 30 to Jan. 1.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin tracking Part D plan compliance with its "best available evidence" policies.

ASHP wants loan forgiveness programs for pharmacists.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun to reassign low-income subsidy-eligible beneficiaries for 2008 Medicare Part D programs.

Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle signed into law a state budget with a dispensing fee increase but vetoed the bill?s hold-harmless provision protecting pharmacists against AMP.

Brimonidine/timolol combination solution is FDA-approved for glaucoma.

A new report by Kalorama Information projects that drug sales influenced by pharmacists wielding their prescribing authority will also double from 2006 to 2012.

AHRQ tools help pharmacies serve patients with limited health literacy.

Wyeth recalls certain Robitussin, Dimetapp Cold & Chest Congestion.

An examination of data in Michigan reveals that e-prescribing reduces potential drug interaction problems.

Young kidney transplant patients are more likely not to comply with their anti-rejection drugs than adult or pediatric patients, according to a new GAO report.

Nilotinib capsules approved for Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).