All News

"Naloxone should be the fire extinguisher in the home of everyone who is at risk."

A new campaign is warning seniors about the risk of buying drugs from illegal online pharmacies.

When a snap decision is called for, “What is our corporate loss-prevention policy?” can compete in an employee’s brain with “What is the best thing for the patient?”

With the industry changing from a pill-centered model to a patient-centered model, med sync becomes more important than ever.

Healthcare has changed, and the emphasis on transitions of care has grown as inpatient and outpatient services are linking up.

A champion of pain patients and a proponent of limited opioid access talk about the issues in a genial debate.

The rules vary from state to state. Pharmacists need to stay informed.

The Pew Charitable Trusts took a look at antibiotic stewardship programs in 10 U.S. health systems. Here's the result.

There are more ways than one to run a specialty pharmacy - and success can be found with any of them.

Lonsurf is a new, orally administered cytotoxic drug for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

The more things change, the more more they remain the same.

Anticoagulation briefs.

Will the DEA finally reclassify marijuana to schedule 2?

Patents expire, competition rises, and outsourcing expands.

The CREATES Act came about because some pharmaceutical manufacturers are misusing the REMS program to prevent generic drug development.

Really? Still? Why?

Update: LABA/LAMA combo therapies

As the opioid epidemic continues to get worse, some health insurers are blocking patients identified as “high risk” from getting multiple opioid prescriptions filled at various pharmacies by restricting where they can fill prescriptions.

David H. Kreling, PhD, a professor at the School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the principal investigator for the ADI project for the Midwest Pharmacy Workforce Consortium, thinks a surplus of pharmacists could spur positive change.

Pharmacist Maisha McCoy will never forget those tense days in late April 2015, when rioting and looting were widespread throughout Baltimore.

Retired pharmacist offers valuable suggestions

Nine patients at Birmingham-area hospitals developed bloodstream infections and died after receiving TPN compounded by Meds IV.

The pharmacy school would be the second in the state.

The culture shock between pharmacy school and the real world is mind-boggling.

A 60-year debate accompanied the elevation of pharmacy education to the doctoral level. When the provider status bill now moving through Congress is enacted into law, it will put paid to that particular conversation.

Bruce Kneeland is on the hunt for unique indie pharmacies across the country.

FIP's 76th annual World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences takes place in Buenos Aires in August. This year's topic: The global disease burden.

Rolapitant is a novel NK1 receptor antagonist that maintains >90% receptor binding up to five days after a single 180-mg dose.

The guidelines, which update the group's 2007 and 2009 recommendations, are published in the "Annals of Internal Medicine."

CVS decided to abandon tobacco sales in 2014. Plenty of community pharmacists were way ahead on that one.