Community Practice

Specialty pharmacy is on a roll. And clinical support is its primary product.

Continuing legal battles between the Drug Enforcement Administration and Cardinal Health have raised questions about federal drug policy and the role of distributors.

Because pharmacists are making a measurable difference in the outcomes of their patients, their roles as providers are changing. There are some barriers, however.

What's your excuse when you call in sick or even just want to take a day off?

The blood-pressure medication prazosin was found to be an effective treatment to curb nightmares related to post traumatic stress disorder, according to a poster presentation, at the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry in Prague

Rivaroxaban, an oral blood thinner, is equally effective as standard therapy for the treatment of pulmonary embolism and may cause fewer bleeding complications, according to new data

The risk of Clostridium difficile infection among households is too low to justify interventions, other than avoiding unnecessary antimicrobials, according to a new study, published in April?s Journal of Infection.

The majority (90% to 98%) of sinus infections are caused by viruses and should not be treated with antibiotics, according to new guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Switching patients with rheumatoid arthritis to rituximab (Rituxan, Genentech) may be more effective than switching them to a second alternative anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) after a first anti-TNF therapy has failed, according to a study published online in Arthritis Care & Research.

In this latest installment, we learn of the New Zealand pharmacist's biggest surprise: some pharmacies in his new home country are contracted to supply methadone for opioid-dependent patients.

Several innovative student pharmacist medication adherence campaigns were recently named as winners of the first Script Your Future Medication Adherence Challenge.

New guidelines for management of hand, hip, and knee osteoarthritis were recently published in the April edition of Arthritis Care & Research.

Should independent pharmacies be given anti-trust immunity to act against contracts presented by pharmacy benefit managers? A representative of the Federal Trade Commission said ?no? and pharmacists said ?yes? during a Congressional subcommittee hearing on HR 1946 last week.

In an extension of its health tours for underserved communities, Walgreens recently started the Way to Well Health Tour with AARP.

Teva Pharmaceutical has launched the authorized generic of Provigil (modafinil), a drug marketed as a wakefulness-promoting agent used to treat sleep disorders, the company announced.

Federal marshals seized more than 1,600 containers from a Missouri distributor last week, alleging that the drugs were unapproved by FDA and misbranded.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved the $29.1 billion merger of Express Scripts and Medco Health Solutions on Monday, but the retail pharmacy industry continues to fight the deal, vowing to push a request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) that it filed on Friday.

The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), the National Community Pharmacists Association, and 9 retail pharmacy companies filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop the proposed merger of pharmacy benefit manager giants Express Scripts and Medco Health Solutions.

The KL1 compact tablet counter has become Kirby Lester?s most successful product launch in its history, the Lake Forest, Ill., company announced.

Weekly mobile phone text messaging may help patients with human immunodeficiency virus adhere to antiretroviral therapy that is often associated with difficult side effects, according to a study published online March 14 in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Daily supplementation with antioxidants, vitamins E and C, and alpha acid, did not improve memory function in patients with Alzheimer?s disease, according to a new study.

Aspirin can reduce the risk for cancer-related mortality and can reduce or prevent the risk for distant metastasis, according to 3 new studies published online by The Lancet and The Lancet Oncology.

Enhanced pharmacist care for patients with dyslipidemia improves low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, according to a study published in the March issue of Pharmacotherapy: The Journal of Human Pharmacology and Drug Therapy.

Express Scripts and Medco Health Solutions may be able to close the transaction of its merger as early as next week, according to an announcement Wednesday by Express Scripts.

FDA added new label warnings for the antidepressant citalopram (Celexa, Forest Laboratories), discouraging patients with certain conditions from using the drug and lowering the dosage recommendations to 20 mg daily for patients aged 60 and older. The warning is also applicable to generic versions of Celexa.