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Looking back, what do you think was missing from your pharmacy education? And what should a 21st century curriculum include?

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Pharmacists Association Foundation recently announced a partnership intended to integrate pharmacy into public health efforts to manage hypertension.

As her first major initiative, State Attorney General-Elect Maura Healey plans to create a taskforce to combat Massachusetts’ heroin and prescription drug crisis.

A pharmacy-led prior authorization service can generate additional hospital revenues through increased reimbursements and decreased write-offs, according to a case study to be published in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.

Several state agencies here are combining resources to create strategies to prevent deaths and injuries from prescription-painkiller overdoses.

In an effort to curb prescription drug overdoses and short circuit pill-mills, Florida banned physician dispensing of strong opioids back in 2011.

According to the most recent update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 15 children in the United States have died thus far this flu season as influenza has reached epidemic levels.

Agency kicks medical product safety-monitoring into a higher gear.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is calling for all patients with diabetes who are at high risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) to be treated with statins and lifestyle therapy, according to its recently published guidance in the January issue of Diabetes Care.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently informed Louisiana that it’s been using an improper reimbursement formula to pay pharmacists through its state Medicaid program.

Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration recently searched records at a Virginia hospital pharmacy in connection with stolen narcotics with an estimated street value close to $1.4 million.

A Walgreens store in Ferguson, Mo., which was damaged during the protests over the Michael Brown case, reopened right before Christmas.

During one six-month period, one West Virginia doctor wrote prescriptions linked to six drug-overdose deaths; nine other doctors wrote prescriptions linked to two or more overdose deaths.

A judge has reinstated the pharmacy license of a former Rhode Island state senator who mistakenly gave morphine to an infant and a toddler.

Even as cynicism grows about the pharmaceutical industry, Americans continue to view pharmacists as among the most honest and ethical professionals.

David Webster, associate director of pharmacy operations, University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), explains URMC’s decision to transition to in-sourced IV compounding.

What stories got the most attention from Drug Topics readers in 2014? Here are the top 10.

Pharmacists and other healthcare professionals have more work to do before consumers understand the dangers of misusing acetaminophen.

Between 2010 and 2013, a significant decline in medical errors at U.S. hospitals reduced hospital-acquired conditions, saving an estimated 50,000 lives and billions of dollars.

Ohio legislators have approved a bill that would shield the identities of pharmacies and pharmacists that compound lethal injection drugs used in executions.

The committee is comprised of 14 members-12 voting and two non-voting-who will provide advice on scientific, technical, and medical issues concerning drug compounding under sections 503A and 503B of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

The owner and head pharmacist of the now-defunct New England Compounding Center (NECC), based in Framingham, Mass., and the supervisory pharmacist were charged with 25 counts of second-degree murder in seven states, more than two years following a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, according to December 17 statement by the U.S. Justice Department.

Health system implements on-site specialty pharmacy, connects it with healthcare team members through EMR; clinical pharmacist gets out from under a mountain of paperwork; everybody wins.

The state Board of Pharmacy here decided not to vote on a policy that would bar the manufacture of lethal drugs by pharmacists for use in executions.

That’s according to Forbes, which picked pharmacist as the top healthcare job for 2015 because of average annual salaries of more than $116,000 and a projected growth rate of 14% by 2022.

Walgreens has lost the latest round in a legal fight involving a Fresno, Calif. pharmacist who said he was fired after blowing the whistle on alleged billing fraud.

Ninety percent of primary care doctors recently surveyed said they are concerned about prescription drug abuse-and nearly half of those surveyed said they are less likely to prescribe powerful painkillers than just a year ago.

Now that pharmacists are being recognized as full members of the healthcare team, we don't have to worry about payment any more, right? Not quite.