The stroke that shouldn't have been
Molly’s mom had a stroke, followed by hospitalization and weeks of rehabilitation. None of it had to happen.
Building an integrative pharmacy practice: Learn as you go
Interested in finding out what integrative/functional pharmacy is all about? Here's a list of resources to get you started - and a thought to take away.
A pharmacy business model to squawk about
The future of pharmacy can be reduced to a single word.
Get paid for clinical services: 7 tips for pharmacists
A pioneer in the battle to win medical provider status tells how its done.
8 reasons to become a pharmacy preceptor
For starters, you get more than you give. Contributor Kelly Howard counts the ways.
Time to step up
Pharmacists can make big contributions to the healthcare team - and healthcare systems are leaning on their expertise more and more.
Pharmacists and patient care: Bring the value
Heck yes, pharmacists belong on healthcare teams. Here's how they can get there.
Win-Win: Using student pharmacists to extend resources
Savvy health-system pharmacists seeking to do more with less are putting student pharmacists to work - and it's working.
How to cut pharmacy staff without layoffs or reduced services
This health-system pharmacy department found success through a combination of approaches.
Where's the infrastructure for precision medicine?
Biomarker tests for molecularly targeted therapies need supportive infrastructure: National Academy of Medicine.
Pharmacy and precepting: You can’t have one without the other
Precepting benefits the recipient, the giver, and the profession. Who doesn't like a hat trick?
Compounder robot scores with health systems
Okay, RIVA may be more of a system than a robot. Regardless, this award-winning IV compounder is the one to beat.
New Products for Pharmacists 04-10-2016
New Rx, new generics, new formulations, and new OTC
Community pharmacists in California see greater opportunities
The California legislature is considering a bill covering comprehensive medication management services under Medi-Cal.
New managed care contracting entity offers expanded services to pharmacies
Membership in buying groups can be important to the survival of independents. Now a new PSAO offers them "comprehensive support."
FDA to require new boxed warnings on opioids
141 generic and 87 branded immediate-release opioid pain medications will be affected.
Pharmacy then and now: 1963 vs. 2016
One difference is immediately noticeable.
Strange, offbeat, and obscure medicinal facts
How do you relieve a child’s nasal congestion? Some people once thought rubbing warm whiskey on a child’s sole would do the trick.
Bill authorizing Medi-Cal payments for MTM introduced
A bill that would authorize California’s Medi-Cal program to reimburse pharmacists for medication therapy management has been introduced in the State Legislature.
How pharmacists can find jobs, get paid, and win provider status
If nothing changes between now and 2018, we may see a 25% oversupply of pharmacists in the marketplace. Then again, we may not. What happens between now and then is, in large measure, up to us.
More Iowa telepharmacies on the way
The Iowa House of Representatives recently approved a bill to make it easier for rural towns throughout the state to set up telepharmacies.
How one pharmacy school fights heroin overdoses
Pharmacists and pharmacy students will play a major role in the new Pennsylvania Heroin Overdose Prevention Technical Assistance Center at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy.
Biosimilars' savings may reach $100 billion by 2020
The use of biosimilars in the European Union and the United States may yield huge savings to healthcare systems over the next five years
The Golden Age of pharmacy
What was it like when townspeople turned to their druggists for healthcare? Here’s a look back from someone who was there.
U.S. physicians start to embrace prescribing of biosimilars
Physicians are beginning to understand the value of biosimilars, particularly those who are high prescribers of biologics and therefore familiar with biosimilars.
10 ways to prevent drug diversion
Studies have shown a high rate of abuse of prescription drugs by healthcare professionals, including pharmacists, when compared to street drugs, primarily because healthcare professionals can access prescription medications easily and often.
Albertsons accused of failing to pay overtime, provide meal periods
A California pharmacist recently filed a class action lawsuit against Albertsons, accusing the grocery chain of failing to pay overtime or allowing mandated rest and meal periods for its pharmacists.
Pharmacists and phone etiquette
Sometimes it's not the demanding customers or condescending physicians, it's their own colleagues who drive pharmacists right up the wall.
Pharmacist job market improves
Following a disappointing November report indicating the nationwide supply of pharmacists had exceeded available jobs, the Pharmacy Workforce Center this week released analysis showing an improved job market in both December and January.
Would partial fill curb opioid abuse?
In an attempt to curb prescription opioid abuse, two members of Congress recently introduced legislation that would allow pharmacists to partially fill opioid prescriptions.