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The Rhode Island Department of Health recently began tracking the number of prescriptions written for opioid painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin, according to a report on Rhode Island Public Radio.

Walgreens CFO Wade Miquelon and pharmacy head Kermit Crawford may have been forced to step aside due to a billion-dollar forecasting error, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

Leading cybersecurity experts will provide real solutions to help businesses protect against potential cybersecurity risks during the 2014 NACDS Total Store Expo in Boston.

In an effort to curb increasing opioid abuse and overdose deaths, the Drug Enforcement Agency has voted to reclassify hydrocodone combination products (HCPs) under the more restrictive category of Schedule II.

With his recent victory in the Republican runoff for Georgia’s 1st Congressional District, pharmacist and State Sen. Buddy Carter is now considered the favorite to win the seat in November.

A California pharmacist has filed a potential class action lawsuit against Walgreens, alleging the chain violated state and federal laws by not paying pharmacists for training hours or time spent maintaining uniforms.

More than six out of 10 Americans do not know that adults 65 years and older need high-dose flu vaccines to prevent senior influenza, according to an online poll commissioned by CVS Caremark.

California lawmakers passed a bill that would allow pharmacists to furnish naloxone without a prescription according to guidelines yet to be established by the state’s pharmacy and medical boards.

A University of Kentucky pharmacy professor has developed a quicker, easier way to deliver naloxone via a nasal spray, and his invention is being fast-tracked by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a report in the Lexington Herald-Leader.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee has recommended Prevnar 13 [Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine] for routine use to help protect adults aged 65 years and older against pneumococcal disease, Pfizer announced.

A new study suggests heart patients with atrial fibrillation have an increased risk of death while taking the widely used drug digoxin.

As the field of specialty pharmacy grows and as graduates continue to enter the pharmacy profession, the need for specialty pharmacy certification will grow, said Gary Rice, RPh, MS, MBA, vice president of clinical services for Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy and immediate past president of the Specialty Pharmacy Certification Board (SPCB), during a webinar this week.

Reports received by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) specify that a pharmacist and four pharmacy technicians from the community practice setting in Sierra Leone have died as a result of the Ebola virus outbreak. Another report from Sierra Leone’s pharmacy board noted that a pharmacy technician who was working in a community pharmacy in Kenema has died.

Dave McKenzie, president of RxWiki, explains how pharmacies can use his company's services to provide news and medical information to customers.

Each pharmacy practitioner has a responsibility to advance the pharmacy profession. These seven practice elements can serve as both foundation and framework for that effort.

Walgreens will be offering chronic and preventive health services at 13 pharmacy locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and 14 in the Houston area by the end of this year.

FDA has approved Invokamet, a fixed-dose therapy combining canagliflozin and metformin HCl in a single tablet, to treat adults with type 2 diabetes, according to the maker of the drug.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) with its partner, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is expected to begin a phase 1 trial this fall on a potential vaccine for the treatment of Ebola virus, a deadly disease that has killed approximately 1,000 in a recent outbreak in West Africa, according to a report by Reuters.

Individuals who have a vitamin D deficiency have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a prospective, population-based study published online for Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Feelings have run high since Drug Topics posted “Should states require bilingual drug labels?” Here's what some of your fellow pharms have been saying.

Accidents happen. Things go wrong. The unforeseen occurs. A crisis plan can keep a controlled threat from turning into a full-fledged disaster.

If you look beyond your job description, what would you find? Here are 10 questions to help you find out.

Acrobats working 50 feet in the air without a net have the guts to jump. Think about it.

Jonas Salk, Sovaldi, and the slippery slope to perdition.

A study suggests that warfarin use may lead to a decrease in and even long-term remission of psychotic symptoms in patients with schizophrenia.

FDA's proposed new rule would allow individual generic-drug application holders to update product labeling information to temporarily reflect changes in safety information prior to FDA review.

Generics are still a good deal. But as they reach their maximum saturation point, the deal is changing.

Over the last few years, the number of drugs on shortage has remained the same. It may even have gone up. Hospitals continue to confront the issues and devise responses.