
What if pharmacies give a lockbox to every patient taking a controlled medication? This project aims to find out.
What if pharmacies give a lockbox to every patient taking a controlled medication? This project aims to find out.
What will you do when you find yourself in a job you love, working for an inadequate manager?
Along with shifting healthcare delivery and payment models, the practice of pharmacy shows many signs of transformation.
David Stanley gives APhA a piece of his mind - at APhA's request.
After you've tracked wheat-derived ingredients through a vulnerable patient's scripts, you realize the problem.
When clinical pharmacists spend time talking with patients, the positive feedback goes up.
24/7/365 in-house pharmacist coverage can result in a scheduling nightmare and high expense for hospitals. Telepharmacy offers another way to go.
Pharmacists swear to promote the good of every patient. But stuff can happen. It wouldn't hurt to take out some insurance. Just in case.
The approval of the first biosimilar heralds a new era in U.S. healthcare. But the rules for biosimilar use are not quite ready for prime time.
Edoxaban is an oral factor Xa inhibitor that prevents thrombin generation and platelet aggregation, and therefore thrombus formation.
CVS Health has now introduced one million young people to pharmacy as a career possibility, and many of them have followed through.
As a group, pharmacists outnumber employers, academe, and the government. What becomes of the profession depends on us.
The award-winning journalist and author will deliver the keynote address Sunday, August 23, at the Colorado Convention Center.
The FDA wants more scientific data to support the safety of active ingredients in antiseptics in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and other healthcare facilities.
Several pharmacy organizations, including the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and leading drug store chains revealed new initiatives to help combat antibiotic resistance at the White House’s “One Health Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship” on June 2.
While price spikes in generic drugs have hurt retail pharmacies’ bottom lines, proposed U.S. legislation, negotiating with wholesalers, and other efforts may help even out prices in the future, pharmacy consultants said during a webinar late last week.
Cardinal Health announced that it plans to purchase The Harvard Drug Group, based in Livonia, Mich. The deal, worth $1.115 billion, is expected to close by the beginning of the company’s fiscal year 2016.
Four black and Hispanic former CVS store detectives say yes.
That is the new name of 11 existing stores and one new one in the Miami area that CVS has rebranded to capitalize on that region’s huge Hispanic population.
Earlier this month, the .pharmacy domain name championed by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy became available for use by pharmacies and pharmacy-related entities.
A recent spike in HIV cases throughout Indiana has federal prosecutors closely scrutinizing doctors and pharmacists who may be recklessly prescribing painkillers.
Yet another college has thrown its hat into the pharmacy school arena-this time it's the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in Milwaukee.
A state representative from Missouri has had his pharmacy license placed on probation for three years after admitting that he created unauthorized prescriptions for himself and others.
Pharmacy organizations and drug store chains came together to combat antibiotic resistance at the White House’s “One Health Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship,”
It’s time to re-examine the current assumption that a diagnosis and subsequent treatment of osteoporosis will prevent hip fractures in the elderly, according to a recent report in the BMJ.
A new bedside delivery service of outpatient medications is being tested at an acute care facility in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Medical Mutual of Ohio has committed $1 million to fund 14 four-year scholarships for students seeking pharmacy degrees at the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED).
The repercussions of antibiotic resistance are once again underscored in a recent policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Two agendas interfere with the delivery of appropriate healthcare services by pharmacists and physicians, and patients take it in the neck.