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PatientGuard teams up with UltiMedex to curb bedside errors

Iowa pharmacists help devise Priority Prescription Savings Program, a statewide program to lower drug costs for senior citizens.

Group purchasing organizations in long-term care

CPSC requires child resistant packaging for common household products containing hydrocarbons, including some baby oils

California's new law governing med errors in hospitals takes effect in two months

A Toledo, Ohio, hospital pharmacist faces involuntary manslaughter charges for allegedly dispensing fatal overdoses of two chemotherapy drugs.

Pharmacists should consider whether scripts for Cipro as an precaution against anthrax are clinically appropriate, according to the American Pharmaceutical Association.

Organon's NuvaRing is approved for birth control.

New Hampshire project may have pharmacists dispense and adminiser methadone to recovering addicts in underserved rural areas.

Meet some outstanding pharmacists from a cross section of settings

warfarin error at St. Agnes in Philadelphia

New service helps pharmacists with compounding

Canadian pharmacists can take the NAPLEX in New Hampshire without going through the foreign pharmacy graduate examination certification process.

How pharmacists can improve their relations with nurses in nursing homes

florida pharmacists react to state's medicaid audits

What's behind the current rampant drug shortages? Pharmacists want to know

NHIN offers test to help pharmacies, PBMs, and software vendors transition to NCPDP's version 5.1 claim standard

cutting back on medications in nursing homes

Pharmacies acquire Rxs at AWP minus 22%, report by HHS IG states

NACDS and NCPA launch SureScript to compete with RxHub

How to code claims

ASHP pushes for a medication safety officer in every hospital

NACDS and NCPA launch SureScript to compete with RxHub

State Medicaid agencies blast PBMs' claims tactics

Should pharmacists follow Arizona's example by not seeking or giving information about patients suspected of being drug seekers?

Medication errors have become the No. 1 priority in hospitals now that JCAHO's patient safety standards went into effect on July 1

Pharmacists are still at a premium across the country, exclusive survey finds