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The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) continues to advocate for legislation that would allow community pharmacies to participate in all Medicare Part D drug plan networks, including “preferred” networks.

A recent poll found that North Dakotans are divided on the issue of abolishing a law that restricts who can operate pharmacies throughout the state.

FDA approved two new therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF): pirfenidone (Esbriet, Roche) and nintedanib (Ofev, Boehringer Ingelheim). Both drugs are orally administered and will help slow the progression of IPF.

Starting next year, health plans that earn 3 or more stars will be able to continue to serve Medicare beneficiaries. Those with fewer than 3 stars will probably be eliminated from the Medicare system.

When it comes to generic drugs, does the shape, color, or size of a pill influence whether patients take the medication as advised?

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The Iowa Board of Pharmacy is forcing the owner of several pharmacies to sell or close them partially because he failed to notice that an employee stole 18,000 hydrocodone tablets over two years.

The number of opioid-prescription overdoses declined slightly in 2012, but the number of heroin deaths continued to increase, according to a new government report.

The Einstein defense applies only to Einstein. The rest of the world does not get a pass.

Some prosecutors and the state’s attorney general want to change Ohio’s lethal-injection law to shield the identities of pharmacists, physicians, and others involved in the process.

FDA last week approved Harvoni (ledipasvir and sofosbuvir), a daily pill to treat hepatitis C virus (HCV) that reportedly costs $1,125 per pill.

ConnecT2Day is designed to help healthcare providers counsel patients in managing type 2 diabetes.

In which a determined pharmacist battles the forces of ignorance and stupidity on behalf of his patient and his own sanity.

In most retail chain stores, the buck stops at the pharmacy supervisor’s desk. Here's a look at the pharmacy biz from their point of view.

Patients should decide how a pharmacy can best communicate with patients. And they can use a very American way to make their feelings known.

The OIG determined that per-fill fees are “inherently subject to abuse” because of their direct tie to the number of patient prescriptions referred to the specialty pharmacy.

Excellent anticoagulation management appears to lower the risk of dementia over the long term in AF patients.

Adults can protect themselves against flu with a needle-free option. There's a benefit for vaccine administrators too - no needle sticks.

Each of the 26 free CE modules features an online Powerpoint lecture, a training video, an interactive activity set, and assessment questions.

Vorapaxar, an antiplatelet, is a first-in-class antagonist on the protease-activated receptor-1 (PAR-1).

By 2020, approximately 62% of all active pharmacists will be women. Here we follow three paths to rewarding and creative careers.

The Affordable Care Act is drastically changing the way patients and employers pay for healthcare and prescriptions.

Whether ACA thrives or bombs, the future is likely to bring upheaval that results in cost savings and improved delivery of healthcare services.

Health plans that have not scored at least three stars for the last three consecutive years will be vulnerable to elimination from the Medicare system. Pharmacists are in an ideal position to help with those scores.

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The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) strongly opposes a Pennsylvania bill that would only allow biosimilar substitution by a pharmacy with permission of the prescriber.

Since the start of Tennessee’s drug database three years ago, more than 2,000 so-called ‘doctor shoppers’ have been thwarted and prescriptions for painkillers have decreased, according to a report in the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Following the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people and sickened hundreds, FDA tightened regulations on compounders like the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts to which the tainted drugs were linked.

The maelstrom that has erupted since Genentech switched three top-selling cancer medications to specialty distributors is not expected to die down anytime soon.