Is $485 million enough to end the opioid epidemic?
The HHS is giving out greatly needed funds, but money alone may not be enough.
CVS Launches New Store Design
Tobacco is gone, now CVS launches new campaign aimed at promoting health and beauty.
Walgreens Clinics Launching STI Testing Services
Pharmacy chain will introduce testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections at its clinics.
NECC and Future of Compounding Pharmacy
Compounding pharmacist's case hinged on whether he was "willfully indifferent."
Pharmacists and Patients Worry About Naloxone Dispensing
Naloxone is available, but is it actually being used?
Reducing Taxes and Regulations Trumps Price Controls
Is Trump focusing on the wrong thing?
How Drug Companies use Loopholes to Delay Generic Drug Approvals
The citizens petition process is being used to delay approval of generic drugs.
Inside the $100 Million Opioids Ring
How physicians made millions and fed the opioid epidemic.
What Home DNA Tests Really Tell Us
23andMe recently gained FDA approval, but will it actually help keep people healthier?
Fred's Could Help Rite Aid/Walgreens Deal Go Through
The chain has said it remains committed to buying Rite Aid stores.
Walgreens and Prime Therapeutics Create Specialty Pharma Mail Firm
What the new company will mean for specialty pharmacy.
MS Group Praises New Drug Despite High Price Tag
Why a drug that costs $65,000 a year is making patient groups happy.
GSK Issues Voluntary Recall
Nearly 600,000 inhalers are being recalled.
EpiPen and EpiPen Jr. Recalled: Recall Expanded from Europe and Asia
Two previous reports of device failures lead EpiPen maker to expand recall to the United States.
The Full Extent of Antibiotic Use in the United States? No One Knows.
What we know-and what we don't-about antibiotics in America.
The Health Economics of Medical Pot and the Pharmacist’s Role
Even medical marijuana has health-care costs and outcomes.
WHO Launches Program to Reduce Medication Errors
How a program hopes to cut errors in half.
As More Canadian Provinces Mandate Error Reporting, U.S. Experts Call for Similar Laws
Ontario joins Nova Scotia in making medication dispensing error reporting mandatory, but no states have enacted similar laws.
What to do About Rising Health-Care Costs?
Taking a clear-eyed look at the cost of health care can reduce waste.
What’s in the Specialty Pharmacy Pipeline?
Biosimilars, cancer drugs, and orphan drugs are heading towards FDA approval in 2017.
New York City Program Aims to Slash Opioid Deaths
What New York City is doing to curb the opioid epidemic.
EpiPens Recalled Overseas Due to Reported Failures
Two device failures lead Mylan to recall more than 80,000 EpiPens overseas.
ASHP Releases Preceptor Guide
There is finally a one-stop resource available preceptor development.
Drug Topics Welcomes New Editorial Board Members
New board members are helping to keep our publication great.
Can Your Pharmacy Cure All This?
On a recent trip to Laos, one of our editors discovered a mobile pharmacy peddling herbal medications for everything from chickenpox to lung cancer.
FDA Issues Warning for Eluxadoline
Anti-IBS drug Viberzi (eluxadoline) increases risk of severe pancreatitis.
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Benefit Pharmacists
How PDMPs are helping both patients and pharmacists.
Legislation Benefits Patients in Medically Underserved Communities
Pharmacists could become providers helping serve patients with limited healthcare access.
Sugammadex: The First Selective Relaxant Binding Agent
Sugammadex reverses vecuronium and rocuronium, two drugs used to facilitate endotracheal intubation in surgery.
Business Group Makes Price Recommendations for Specialty Drugs
The high cost of specialty drugs demands a change in Washington, according to a report.
