Community Practice

For patients, preventive services are a vital healthcare resource. For the healthcare delivery system, they produce cost savings. Pharmacists are a key link.

Statins and ED drugs lead the way, and there are plenty more on the horizon.

As sponsor of The Skin Cancer Foundation’s Road to Healthy Skin Tour, Rite Aid will offer free skin cancer screenings at locations in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia this summer.

The number of methamphetamine lab seizures in West Virginia is plummeting, and some are attributing that decline to pharmacy restrictions on pseudoephedrine products such as Sudafed and Claritin-D.

Over the course of a career, errors are inevitable. For pharmacists, who never forget that lives are at stake, the prospect is chilling. Yet close calls still happen. This was one.

The American Pharmacists Association Foundation has introduced a self-management tool designed to improve healthcare outcomes for diabetes patients and to reduce overall costs.

Despite efforts by law enforcement and increased security measures by many pharmacies, the number of pharmacy robberies across the country increased during the first five months of 2015.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed legislation that authorizes pharmacists in that state to be paid for clinical services and expands collaborative practice agreements.

Under a new law approved two years ago, some pharmacists in California will soon be able to prescribe birth control.

Expert tips on attracting and keeping retail pharmacy customers

To relieve intractable working conditions, pharmacists will have to join together. It's time to unionize.

Each option has drawbacks. Bottom line: The ideal choice is the one the patient will actually use.

OTC products designed to support a sleek and youthful appearance

New Rx, new generics, and new OTC

What if pharmacies give a lockbox to every patient taking a controlled medication? This project aims to find out.

Along with shifting healthcare delivery and payment models, the practice of pharmacy shows many signs of transformation.

David Stanley gives APhA a piece of his mind - at APhA's request.

After you've tracked wheat-derived ingredients through a vulnerable patient's scripts, you realize the problem.

CVS Health has now introduced one million young people to pharmacy as a career possibility, and many of them have followed through.

As a group, pharmacists outnumber employers, academe, and the government. What becomes of the profession depends on us.

The award-winning journalist and author will deliver the keynote address Sunday, August 23, at the Colorado Convention Center.

A recent spike in HIV cases throughout Indiana has federal prosecutors closely scrutinizing doctors and pharmacists who may be recklessly prescribing painkillers.

West Virginia Supreme Court justices recently ruled that people who illegally abuse prescribed drugs could sue the doctors who prescribed the drugs and pharmacists that dispensed them.

When it comes to patients with uncontrolled hypertension, those working with teams that include a pharmacist have better blood pressure control than those only working with doctors, according to research by the University of Iowa (UI).

Looking for that first pharmacy job? Here are a few things to keep in mind.

Walgreens recently opened a retail pharmacy inside Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, N.J.

New Rx approvals, new launches, new indications, new formulation, new dosage strengths, new biosimilar, new generics, new OTC

Under universal healthcare, no U.S. resident will be denied healthcare services. And the chief service deniers - and payment refusers - will be restructured or gone.

Only indy pharmacies have it, and it may make all the difference.

Medication adherence counseling is something pharmacists do best. Evolving paradigms in healthcare delivery will resolve how they will be paid for it.