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The use of biosimilars in the European Union and the United States may yield huge savings to healthcare systems over the next five years

What was it like when townspeople turned to their druggists for healthcare? Here’s a look back from someone who was there.

Physicians are beginning to understand the value of biosimilars, particularly those who are high prescribers of biologics and therefore familiar with biosimilars.

Studies have shown a high rate of abuse of prescription drugs by healthcare professionals, including pharmacists, when compared to street drugs, primarily because healthcare professionals can access prescription medications easily and often.

A California pharmacist recently filed a class action lawsuit against Albertsons, accusing the grocery chain of failing to pay overtime or allowing mandated rest and meal periods for its pharmacists.

Sometimes it's not the demanding customers or condescending physicians, it's their own colleagues who drive pharmacists right up the wall.

Following a disappointing November report indicating the nationwide supply of pharmacists had exceeded available jobs, the Pharmacy Workforce Center this week released analysis showing an improved job market in both December and January.

In an attempt to curb prescription opioid abuse, two members of Congress recently introduced legislation that would allow pharmacists to partially fill opioid prescriptions.

These images originally appeared between 1910 and 1920.

For the answers to the the pharmacy history quiz questions, read on.

New drugs, formulations, generics, and devices.

As hospitals and health systems consolidate, hospital pharmacy directors tackle interoperability between pharmacy automation and EMRs. Here are some of the issues.

An entire economic ecosystem depends on pulling the wool over the eyes of prescribers. Pharmacists can tell them all about it. Or could.

In health systems, close collaboration between pharmacy and nursing results in successful interventions.

An impressive lineup of new products is pouring into the market, and many other up-and-comers are right behind.

Smaller hospitals come to grips with a requirement that is essential, unfunded, and compulsory.

Cardiac arrest code teams need pharmacists. Here's why.

A rural hospital's director of pharmacy tells how ACO membership cut ER visits and healthcare costs - and improved patient care.

APhA award recipient Nicki Hilliard says step up and voice your concerns.

Continuous monitoring is what's needed. Fortunately, there's a platform for that.

FDA has approved mepolizumab for adjunctive maintenance treatment of severe asthma in patients 12 years of age and older with markers of eosinophilic asthma.

Sex discrimination and harassment were key elements of the case against Walmart.

Clopidogrel therapy can make a difference after ASD closures.

When it comes to filling Rxs, automation technology improves both accuracy and efficiency, giving pharmacists more time for patient care and oversight of technological functions. It's a good thing.

Drugstores in the '20s contended with Prohibition and powerful Washington lobbies, while customers enjoyed newfangled soda fountains and some nifty new products.

When APhA announced the candidates for board of trustees and president-elect, it had a special honor to bestow.

In this month's trip down Memory Lane, Drug Topics looks back on an article from 2001 that examined the roots of a problem in full flower today.

How did local drugstores end up at the mercy of drugmakers, pharmacy chains, insurance plans, and PBMs? Here's a look back from someone who watched it happen.

For years, anecdotal evidence suggested the increase in pharmacy schools and resulting spike in new graduates, as well as the slow track toward provider status, might be creating more pharmacists than available jobs.

A New York county executive’s plan to ban pharmacy retailers from selling cigarettes and other tobacco products is garnering mixed reaction from pharmacists.