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The American Pharmacists Association is advocating for provider status, better patient access to pharmacies, support for MTM, and other initiatives at the congressional level this year.

A pharmacist-physician team shows how to change oppositional relationships into partnerships.

The Joint Commission’s in-person surveys of hospital pharmacies are rigorous, said a hospital executive at the APhA annual meeting in San Diego, and preparation should be just as exacting.

At an event honoring Rear Admiral Scott F. Giberson held during the annual APhA conference in San Diego, industry leaders spoke frankly about the issues pharmacy faces today.

The board of directors of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores recently joined President Barack Obama at the administration’s launch of its Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network.

More than 3,600 pharmacy graduates or soon-to-be graduates were matched with a residency position, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).

As healthcare facilities across the nation deal with shortages of certain drugs, including generics, pharmacists and pharmacy managers are tasked with the daily monitoring of drug supplies and increased communications with other healthcare professionals such as nurses and physicians.

NACDS has acquired a program that trains pharmacists to administer point-of-care testing in pharmacies; it will kick off in April with a tour of pharmacy schools nationwide.

The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation recently announced the 2015 recipients of its Incentive Grants for Practitioner Innovation in Pharmaceutical Care.

The country is moving toward provider status. But direct reimbursement isn't here yet.

Validation through inclusion in Medicare Part B could lead to recognition of pharmacists as healthcare providers across the board.

Children are especially vulnerable to this product, which is brightly colored and sweetened with candy-like flavors.

In an effort to curb prescription drug abuse, at least one state has embraced the concept of limiting some people to a specific prescriber and pharmacy for controlled substances. And the concept is also gaining some traction nationally.

If the Dean [Ronald P. Jordan] of the Chapman University School of Pharmacy sees no issue with the nationwide explosion of schools of pharmacy, then I suggest that the university personally invest in its graduates by providing pharmacy students with low interest, dischargeable, education loans.

A federal judge this week overturned a law allowing Maine residents to buy prescription drugs from Internet pharmacies in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.

Can-do exemplar is recognized for his many contributions to the profession of pharmacy.

Salaries of entry-level health-system pharmacists are expected to decline by at least 10% over the next five years, predicts a new report from ASHP.

Two Rivers Medicine Shoppe, in Two Rivers, Wis., becomes third pharmacy to receive accreditation.

The newly-formed Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC), a group of independent long-term care pharmacies, plans to work with U.S. Congressional leaders to reintroduce the Medicare Efficient Drug Dispensing Act.

A recent survey revealed that below-cost reimbursements for some generics and Medicare drug plans that exclude community pharmacies are the top concerns of members of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA).

Members of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) have elected pharmacist Dale Coker as their president.

At least two U.S. Senators believe so and have once again introduced legislation that would allow Americans to import medicines from Canada.

A group representing the nation’s governors has endorsed provider status for pharmacists as a way to improve medical outcomes and lower healthcare costs.

Calvin H. Knowlton, BS Pharm, MDiv, PhD, has been named this year’s Remington Honor Medal award winner and will be recognized next month at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) annual meeting and exposition in San Diego.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Pharmacists Association Foundation recently announced a partnership intended to integrate pharmacy into public health efforts to manage hypertension.

As her first major initiative, State Attorney General-Elect Maura Healey plans to create a taskforce to combat Massachusetts’ heroin and prescription drug crisis.

Several state agencies here are combining resources to create strategies to prevent deaths and injuries from prescription-painkiller overdoses.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is calling for all patients with diabetes who are at high risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) to be treated with statins and lifestyle therapy, according to its recently published guidance in the January issue of Diabetes Care.

ASHP midyear update: Efforts on Capitol Hill are paying off.

Improvement in HCAHPS scores is possible with pharmacists’ involvement in patient education efforts, according to a report at the 2014 ASHP Midyear meeting in Anaheim, Calif.