
Gaining insight from Walgreens’ senior director of immunizations, Samantha Picking, PharmD, discusses her company’s innovative approaches to boosting vaccination rates.

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Gaining insight from Walgreens’ senior director of immunizations, Samantha Picking, PharmD, discusses her company’s innovative approaches to boosting vaccination rates.

Samantha Picking, PharmD, senior director of immunizations at Walgreens, discusses how pharmacists have emerged as the ideal providers to manage vaccine administration.

Amid multiple methods for protecting children against RSV, researchers explored the strengths, limitations, and future approaches of each.

At the Total Pharmacy Solutions Summit Summer 2025, John Hill, MBAHCM, and Pooja Babbrah, MBA, from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, discuss their organization’s plan for advancing the pharmacy profession.

Tara Pfund, PharmD, chief strategy officer with Cascadia Pharmacy Group, discusses various ways community pharmacists can expand services and support clinical reimbursement.

Amid increased market concerns, researchers explored retail and independent community pharmacy turnover rates spanning from 2010 to 2023.

During National Immunization Awareness Month, Hashim Zaibak, PharmD, provided personal tips for community pharmacies looking to expand their vaccination services.

With a myriad of non-traditional pharmacy roles on the rise, Ashley Kay Pendrick, PharmD, owner of Prosper Rx Consulting, provided insights into the opportunities at hand for US pharmacists.

Exploring WHO National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups, researchers assessed the global adoption and trends of off-label vaccine use since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Using a web-based survey of people in Japan, researchers determined the perceived barriers pharmacists face when counseling patients with gender-specific diseases.

Dae Lee, PharmD, Esq, CPBS, discusses the legal and billing challenges hindering pharmacy practices and opportunities to overcome them.

Ashley Kay Pendrick, PharmD, owner of Prosper Rx Consulting, provided insights on how pharmacists can expand their scope within the confines of current practice regulations.

Among patients with type 2 diabetes, researchers explored how tirzepatide or semaglutide use was associated with first-time reports of optic nerve or visual pathway disorders.

As a clinical pharmacy consultant with more than a decade of experience, Ashley Kay Pendrick, PharmD, shared her insights into non-traditional pharmacy roles.

Researchers presented findings from a pharmacist-led pilot program for opioid deprescribing among patients in a palliative care clinic.

Through her work with Prosper Rx Consulting, Ashley Kay Pendrick, PharmD, discusses the expansion of pharmacists’ roles beyond medication dispensing.

Searching for the clinical and economic impacts, researchers explored the implications of pharmacist-led anti-infective consultations.

Offering a glimpse into how social isolation and loneliness impact health outcomes, researchers explored how pharmacists promote social health care among their patients.

As researchers continue to measure the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health, Hashim Zaibak, PharmD, discusses the evolution of community pharmacies in a postpandemic world.

In an exploration of recent mothers across the US, researchers addressed the association of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy with breastfeeding and breastfeeding cessation.

As part of a retrospective study, researchers explored the association between BMI and osteoporosis risk as outcomes evolve from adolescence to adulthood.

Researchers gathered a group of adolescent-serving clinicians and asked them about their confidence in helping patients with abortion access.

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Among rural community pharmacies in the US, researchers explored pneumococcal immunization services, the processes used to identify patient eligibility, and the barriers to vaccine administration.

Researchers conducted a systematic review to determine the effectiveness of pharmacists in promoting vaccine uptake for protection against the most prominent infectious diseases.

After the certification of a new stroke center in respective communities, researchers compared the stroke outcomes of Black patients with those of White patients.

Hashim Zaibak, PharmD, CEO of Hayat Pharmacy, discusses the ongoing narratives surrounding vaccine hesitancy as well as his thoughts on the best ways of addressing the phenomenon.

When independent and retail storefronts close across the country, creating a lack of pharmacy services in the community, pharmacy deserts arise.

In this retrospective cohort study, researchers investigated the association between formulary coverage for disease-modifying therapies and the potential for MS relapse.

Hashim Zaibak, PharmD, CEO of Hayat Pharmacy, discusses how immunization services at his pharmacy locations have evolved since the COVID-19 pandemic.