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As the opioid epidemic continues to get worse, some health insurers are blocking patients identified as “high risk” from getting multiple opioid prescriptions filled at various pharmacies by restricting where they can fill prescriptions.

Pharmacist Maisha McCoy will never forget those tense days in late April 2015, when rioting and looting were widespread throughout Baltimore.

Bruce Kneeland is on the hunt for unique indie pharmacies across the country.

FIP's 76th annual World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences takes place in Buenos Aires in August. This year's topic: The global disease burden.

CVS decided to abandon tobacco sales in 2014. Plenty of community pharmacists were way ahead on that one.

APhA has announced its new officers for 2017-2018.

An expert with 35 years' academic and professional experience calls it like he sees it.

According to PBMs, those drug coupons are something else.

More than 300 pharmacists turned out to support H.R. 244, the “MAC Transparency Act," and H.R. 793, the “Ensuring Seniors Access to Local Pharmacies Act of 2015.”

The movement to get naloxone into the hands of first responders, drug users, and their family members has found increasing support in state legislatures.

Most pharmacy shelves stock numerous alternative treatments for simple skin problems. Here are a few of the newer ones.

New Rx, indications, generics, and OTC

Physicians have been called "Doc" for so long that the terms are essentially identical. Why not designate pharmacists by a separate and distinct title?

With provider status now a reality in 38 states, HR 592 and S 314 have powerful Congressional support. How long before the payers come on board?

A new mental health platform on the Walgreens website will offer consumers free online screening tools and links to providers of followup care.

An "outpouring of new pharmacy-school graduates." "Fears of a manpower glut." 2016 headlines? Nope. The year was 1976.

In some professions, eternal vigilance comes with the territory.

Walmart has decided to put all its eggs in a really big basket.

Quasi-religious symbol? Sign of enforced conformity? Emblem of arrogance and superiority? Or simple professional attire? You decide.

Representatives of Teamsters Local 727 recently distributed leaflets outside Chicago-area CVS stores that accuse the retail chain of mistreating pharmacists by overworking them in understaffed pharmacies.

The fly in the ointment: CMS' current plan for HCPCS codes is a real buzz kill.

Everyone profits, including patients, who get paid almost $1,500 in HSA credits for their data - if they do as they are told.

Pharmacy technicians can do much more than just stock shelves and manage inventory. And the possibilities increase by the day.

Nowadays, we think of generics as economical options. Not so long ago, plenty of folks thought of them as sacrilege.

Walgreens’ posting of a sympathetic blog about the use of medical marijuana has created quite a buzz, with some online observers speculating the retail chain has its sight on that lucrative industry.