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A California judge recently ordered CVS Pharmacy to pay three counties more than $658,000 to settle charges that pharmacists did not properly consult patients filling prescriptions.

More than one million Americans have signed up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, but many are having difficulty using their coverage because they have not received plan identification numbers from insurers. To aid those in such situations, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, Kroger, and other large and small pharmacies are offering a limited amount of medications at no upfront cost.

Karen Staniforth, a pharmacist with more than 30 years’ experience in retail pharmacy, has been named Rite Aid Corporation’s group vice president, pharmacy Initiatives and clinical services.

In its largest gift ever to AmeriCares, Mylan has donated more than $3 million in medicines to aid that organization’s Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts in the Philippines. The various medicines will be used to treat patients with infections, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.

Baxter International has initiated a voluntary recall in the United States of 2 lots of premixed sterile intravenous (IV) parenteral nutrition products: CLINIMIX (Amino Acid in Dextrose) Injection and CLINIMIX E (Amino Acid with Electrolytes in Dextrose with Calcium) Injections to the user level because of complaints of particulate matter found in the products.

FDA approved 27 new drugs last year, down from 39 new medications in 2012, which was a 15-year high, the Associated Press reported.

The CVS Caremark Charitable Trust and its partners are providing $5 million in grants to help expand patients' access to healthcare.

Giant Eagle last week acquired specialty pharmacy Rx21 Specialty Pharmacy in Dallas, Texas. The pharmacy will help Giant Eagle provide enhanced services to hepatitis C and organ transplant patients and providers.

Many pharmacists have long contended that products that kill should not be sold in pharmacies. Now some pharmacy chains agree.

Walgreens is expanding its consumer health screening services in Maryland to include cholesterol and other tests.

APhA recognizes pharmacist-educator who contributed to the profession and beyond.

Reorganized exam replaces three subject areas with nine. Testing time and number of questions remain the same.

Aurobindo, Dr. Reddy’s, Lupin, Sun Pharma, Teva, and Torrent Pharmaceuticals all received the OK.

WAG–Boots–Amerisource Bergen was only the first. Here comes another behemoth.

An accurate medication history for hospital patients is the product of teamwork shared by pharmacists, physicians, and nurses. The pharmacist must champion this process for it to work smoothly.

How St. Joseph County, Indiana, went from one pharmacy robbery every six weeks to none.

The program combines a doctorate in pharmacy from Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy and a medical degree from Rutgers University’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Mobile health-monitoring systems can empower the patient and strengthen the position of the pharmacist on the healthcare team.

With pharmacy industry bodies, labor unions, and special interest groups arrayed against the bill, Governor Brown returned the legislation to the State Senate unsigned.

Which way does the FDA spin the issue of opiate use in this country? Try both.

The development of target-specific anticoagulants has raised the question of their possible use in patients with mechanical heart valves.

Pharmacy managers who are not pharmacists manage to do one thing really well.

One bunch of pharmacists won't forget National Pharmacists Week any time soon.