
Easy-to-swallow bits of information from around the world of pharmacy.


Pharmacy chains are stepping up to help diabetes patients.

The pharmacist's role in diabetes care will only continue to grow.

New plans are designed around feedback and a desire to increase safety checks.

The Father of Vitamins was an incredibly important person who went unthanked-just like pharmacists.

How a gel could prevent opioid abuse and get pharmacists more involved.

An Australian study found that crush-proof opioids are working.

Over 450 hospitals have joined together over frustrations about drug prices and shortages.

Drug Topics asked PTCB CEO William Schimmel where the pharmacy technician profession is headed.

Vabomere combines a carbapenem and a beta-lactamase inhibitor as a treatment for complicated urinary tract infections.

The agency’s ruling also added an additional Boxed Warning.

There's been a lot of talk about these programs, so just what are they accomplishing?

Being recognized as a BCPP brings professional recognition and credibility as an expert in psychopharmacology and behavioral health matters.

Explaining the high price of a drug to a customer is hard enough, but its worse when its your mother.

ASHP predicts leadership changes, enlarged roles for pharmacists, and financial pressures.

Is new technology actually making pharmacy any better (or easier)?

Air Force SSgt Mary Johnson was named the 2017 PTCB CPhT of the Year for her work.

What’s the difference between a challenge and an opportunity? In 2018, for pharmacy, they may be the same thing.

Study finds that patients like wellness visits conducted by pharmacists.

What CMS' big changes to the 340B Drug Discount Program will mean.

A protein called STUB1 may help prevent blood clots in patients with chronic kidney disease without causing bleeding complications.

Direct oral anticoagulants have expanded treatment options for patients with venous thromboembolisms, but they are not for everyone.

The last 12 drugs approved in the year, along with the other 34.

By using automated medication inventory management, pharmacists are freed up to perform more patient focused care.

In this month's peer-reviewed article, learn more about the illness affecting millions.

Emicizumab-kxwh brings together factors IXa and X to restore the function of the missing activated factor VIII and the blood clotting process.

Anti-fungal resistance hasn't gotten much attention - but it's a big problem.

The specialty explosion is only going to get bigger.