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The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) issued a warning in June to stop using dosing cups for liquid medicine that are embossed with scales for drams, ounces, teaspoon, and tablespoon measures. These measurement scales can be easily confused with the milliliter dosing scales.

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

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

Starting next year, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists will provide review courses and recertification resources for the Board of Pharmacy Specialties.

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

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the American Pharmacists Association, the National Community Pharmacists Association, and the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations have asked the FDA to allow more time for pharmacists to comply with the track and trace requirements for “dispensers.”

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

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

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

Several pharmacy organizations, including the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and leading drug store chains revealed new initiatives to help combat antibiotic resistance at the White House’s “One Health Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship” on June 2.

Earlier this month, the .pharmacy domain name championed by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy became available for use by pharmacies and pharmacy-related entities.

Pharmacy organizations and drug store chains came together to combat antibiotic resistance at the White House’s “One Health Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship,”

Pharmacists are now being included in care teams wherever outcomes are being tracked. Provider status is only a matter of time.

Adding pharmacists to the care team will result in better patient outcomes, lower payer costs, relief for physicians, and better use of pharmacists' skills and experience. It's a no-brainer.

The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) has endorsed legislation that would expand the number of pharmacies that could offer discounted copays for Medicare Part D prescription drugs.

The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) recently issued a report listing illegal online drug sellers and detailing the threat they pose to the public.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists offers two new guidance documents as well as online training to help with meeting the new ASHP Accreditation Standard for Postgraduate Year One Pharmacy Residency Programs.

Pharmacists recently joined consumers and Texas businesses in urging state legislators to approve legislation that would authorize pharmacists to administer government-recommended vaccines to children 7 years and older.

The National Association of Chain Drug Stores is applauding the U.S. House of Representatives’ recent passage of a bill designed to curb prescription drug abuse while protecting patient access to controlled substances.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists has announced the slate of candidates running for president, board of directors, and to chair its House of Delegates.

Retail pharmacists are ideally situated to perform MTM through collaborative agreements with physicians, and some are making it happen.

For women building pharmacy careers, going it alone is not the most likely recipe for success.

The event takes place August 22-25 at Denver's Colorado Convention Center, and the exhibit floor is nearly sold out.

Inadequate reimbursement rates are threatening patient access to generic drugs and to community pharmacies, according to a recent survey by the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA).

Missouri pharmacists would like to see a prescription drug monitoring program program in their state, just not the one recently approved by state senators.

Approximately one third of U.S. hospitals have completely migrated to the electronic health record (EHR) and are no longer using paper charts. In those hospitals with an EHR that they use completely or in combination with paper charts, 80% give pharmacists the ability to make recommendations and document them in the EHR.

The mission of this peer-reviewed journal is to offer a forum for pharmacists to share their research and quality improvement projects from their residency training in an effort to advance patient care and optimize medication use.

Recently, state legislators in Colorado passed a biosimilars bill that would allow pharmacists to substitute a biosimilar drug for name-brand biologics in cases where the FDA has declared the drugs interchangeable.

Experts provided advice on the implementation of AB 1535, the California law that allows pharmacists to furnish naloxone in California without a prescription, during a recent webinar hosted by the California Pharmacists Association.

The American Pharmacists Association this week adopted a policy discouraging pharmacists from providing drugs for use in lethal injections.