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The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is starting a pharmacy school program in partnership with Idaho State University (ISU). It will be the first pharmacy school entirely based in Alaska.

Henry Cohen has been named dean of the Touro College of Pharmacy and will begin his new job in January, the school recently announced

The Florida Board of Pharmacy recently approved a new rule mandating additional training for pharmacists in connection with the dispensing of controlled substances.

You're in the home stretch, and now's the time to go all out.

Here's the latest on where the Star Measures will go next.

Three-quarters of the time, meds prescribed for many common conditions don't work. When the day comes that meds are routinely personalized to the patient, this will cease to be an issue.

Why don't pharmacists get no respect? Here's why, right here.

Some big changes to program policies are in the works.

In Part 3 of "The New Pharmacy," Mark Burger takes you through the daily checklist of a successful practice.

Community pharmacy residency programs are springing up across the country. Here's what they have to offer.

What makes for successful pharmacy implementation of tobacco-cessation programs? A study of 20 Safeway stores delivers some answers.

Deterioration of renal function and an increase in related adverse events is not unusual in patients treated with direct oral anticoagulants.

Remember the "POGO" comic strip? "We have met the enemy and he is us." According to Ken Baker, it's kind of like that.

Letters, e-mails, posts, and comments from Drug Topics readers

Prescription reimbursements: Tennessee lays down the law.

New Rx, generics, and OTC

A Kentucky pharmacy will pay $9.25 million to resolve allegations it received kickbacks from a manufacturer for recommending physicians prescribe a certain drug.

ASHP has urged FDA to create a centralized electronic system for all Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy programs.

In April 2015, FDA approved Ivabradine to reduce the risk of hospitalizations due to worsening heart failure in indicated patients.

As existential questions go, it's a big one for pharmacists. Here's Dennis Miller's answer.

Humira (adalimumab) and Enbrel (etanercept) accounted for the largest number of injury reports received by the FDA last year, according to a new edition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices’ (ISMP) QuarterWatch.

The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) holds its annual convention at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md., this Saturday, Oct. 10 through Wednesday, Oct. 14, with opportunities to network/socialize, share great ideas, and learn.

PQA, VoicePort, and Scientific Technologies are collaborating on ImmuSMART, the Immunization Services Model for Adult Rate Improvement project.

St. Louis College of Pharmacy has partnered with Washington University School of Medicine, both located in St. Louis, to create the Center for Clinical Pharmacology to research new approaches for pain relief including new analgesics and other therapeutic ways to manage chronic pain.

FDA has approved cancer therapies, one targeting metastatic melanoma and the other for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Following the lead of its competitor Walgreens, CVS has installed time-delayed safes in its pharmacies in the Indianapolis area in an effort to curb the increasing number of pharmacy robberies there.

If you want improved working conditions in the pharmacy, you're gonna hafta help.

The answer, it turns out, is "Plenty." Just ask Topeka Pharmacy's Tom and Morag Miller.