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An 89-year-old woman walked 3,200 miles in 14 months for a cause she believed in - and then got herself hauled off to jail for reading the Declaration of Independence in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. If she could show up for her cause, suggests Kim Ankenbruck, RPh, what are we willing to do for ours?

Pharmacists and other immunization providers worked with the federal government to increase access to vaccines in nontraditional settings.

Walgreens has extended its offer to provide a limited supply of medications to newly insured Americans enrolled under the Affordable Care Act who haven't received plan identification numbers yet from their insurers.

Rite Aid has agreed to pay $10,000 to a Michigan customer who filed a federal complaint alleging he was denied a flu shot because he is HIV positive.

Most customers want to sample your pharmacy before they ever step foot into it. So if you don’t have an online presence you are losing business. Liz Tiefenthaler, president of Pharm Fresh Media, discusses how pharmacies should be using websites and social media to reach customers.

An Ohio state senator has introduced a bill that would require pharmacies throughout the state to verify the identities of buyers of certain controlled substances and the pain reliever tramadol.

An interdisciplinary group of pharmacists, pharmacy school and medical school faculty, pharmacy students, nurses, physicians, attorneys, and health advocates have called on Walgreens and Rite Aid to join CVS Caremark and stop the sale of tobacco products in their stores.

CVS Caremark will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at all of its pharmacies nationwide by October 1, 2014.

A DEA spokesman said the agency is not trying to limit access to opioid painkillers.

Engaging pharmacists in healthcare information technology is crucial to increasing overall medication adherence in healthcare, panelists on the “Connected Health, Better Adherence” roundtable at the Pew Conference Center in Washington, DC, told attendees last week.

The risk of stroke, heart attack, and death in men taking FDA-approved testosterone products is now under review.

Dinesh Patel and his wife, Kalpana Patel, recently donated $1 million to the University of Michigan College (UM) of Pharmacy for scholarships, according to a published report.

Two oncologists call on ASCO and their peers to support a system that will meet the needs of their patients.

A quality improvement initiative conducted in a primary care setting greatly improved asthma control and outcomes for high-risk adolescents.

Vitamin D has a strong protective effect against the disease process that underlies multiple sclerosis.

The latest state-budget proposal from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo includes $10 million for a new pharmacy school at Binghamton University.

40 mg/mL dose of glatiramer acetate injection three times a week will permit a simpler regimen for patients with relapsing forms of MS.

Not much has changed in the two years since Tennessee went on the NPLEx system and began tracking -- and blocking -- purchases of cold medications containing pseudoephedrine.

More than 3 million Americans under 26 years of age have health insurance through their parents’ health plans. More than 9 million Americans have signed up for private health insurance or Medicaid coverage. And no American can be dropped or denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition, said President Barack Obama about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) during his fifth State of the Union address on January 28th.

The FDA is prohibiting Ranbaxy Laboratories from manufacturing and distributing active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from its facility in Toansa, India, in order “to prevent substandard quality products from reaching U.S. consumers,” according to a news release.

Drug Topics provides special coverage on pharmacy crimes involving the painkiller oxycodone. Discover what has happened recently in the news and current statistics of oxycodone trafficking offenses.

Study of 166,715 people showed that adults with diabetes had more comorbidities and got more flu shots than did nondiabetics.

An FDA advisory committee has recommended the approval of a ragweed sublingual allergy immunotherapy tablet licensed to Merck.

As he moved closer to retirement, there were no shortages of offers for Deril Lees’ three compounding-only pharmacies in the Tulsa, Okla.-area. But Lees’ feared that many of the prospective buyers would close The Apothecary Shoppe, scattering his long-time employees, which include numerous family members, at his two Tulsa locations and the one in Broken Arrow.

During 2008-2012, more than 45,600 adverse drug events in children less than 18 years of age were reported to the FDA. Approximately 29,000 ADEs (64%) were serious, causing injury. During the 5-year period, the reports increased at a steady rate, from more than 6,300 in 2008 to 11,400 in 2012.

Numerous studies have shown that medication adherence, or the lack of it, is a major driver of healthcare costs. As millions of consumers select health plans as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) believes they should have information on the success of individual healthcare plans in improving medication adherence.

When it comes to filling prescriptions at retail pharmacies, CVS is the top consumer choice, followed closely by Walgreens.

With this year’s enactment of a state law allowing medical marijuana sales, some Illinois pharmacists would like to own dispensaries so they too can gain a piece of the legal marijuana trade.

Continued use of statins may help prevent delirium in critically ill patients who received statins before hospital admission, according to a study published online ahead of print in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Express Scripts and CVS Caremark are expected to expand their list of non-covered drugs for the 2015 plan year, leading to challenging pricing negotiations between branded pharmaceutical companies and PBMs.