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The future of pharmacy can be reduced to a single word.

A pioneer in the battle to win medical provider status tells how its done.

For starters, you get more than you give. Contributor Kelly Howard counts the ways.

Pharmacists can make big contributions to the healthcare team - and healthcare systems are leaning on their expertise more and more.

Heck yes, pharmacists belong on healthcare teams. Here's how they can get there.

Savvy health-system pharmacists seeking to do more with less are putting student pharmacists to work - and it's working.

This health-system pharmacy department found success through a combination of approaches.

Biomarker tests for molecularly targeted therapies need supportive infrastructure: National Academy of Medicine.

Precepting benefits the recipient, the giver, and the profession. Who doesn't like a hat trick?

New Rx, new generics, new formulations, and new OTC

The California legislature is considering a bill covering comprehensive medication management services under Medi-Cal.

Membership in buying groups can be important to the survival of independents. Now a new PSAO offers them "comprehensive support."

141 generic and 87 branded immediate-release opioid pain medications will be affected.

One difference is immediately noticeable.

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.

A bill that would authorize California’s Medi-Cal program to reimburse pharmacists for medication therapy management has been introduced in the State Legislature.

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.

The Iowa House of Representatives recently approved a bill to make it easier for rural towns throughout the state to set up telepharmacies.

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.

The use of biosimilars in the European Union and the United States may yield huge savings to healthcare systems over the next five years

What was it like when townspeople turned to their druggists for healthcare? Here’s a look back from someone who was there.

Physicians are beginning to understand the value of biosimilars, particularly those who are high prescribers of biologics and therefore familiar with biosimilars.

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.

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.

Sometimes it's not the demanding customers or condescending physicians, it's their own colleagues who drive pharmacists right up the wall.

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.

In an attempt to curb prescription opioid abuse, two members of Congress recently introduced legislation that would allow pharmacists to partially fill opioid prescriptions.

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