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Pharmacy managers who are not pharmacists manage to do one thing really well.

One bunch of pharmacists won't forget National Pharmacists Week any time soon.

Dolutegravir, a new, once-daily option, may allow improved personalization of a patient’s medication regimen.

Shrinking margins, drug shortages, ACA pose challenges for community, hospital pharmacists.

Urban Detroit community receives outpouring of healthcare resources from pharmacists and other providers.

As pharmacists switch from reimbursement based on a fee-for-service model to value-based care, these best practices can help maximize efficiency despite budget constraints and lean staffs.

Stakeholders meeting in Washington, D.C., discussed funding, costs, challenges, and directions.

Study showed lower doses less effective.

New Rx, generics, OTC, and devices

Letters, e-mails, Facebook posts, and web comments from Drug Topics readers.

Remember President Eisenhower’s coinage “the military-industrial complex”? Here’s a contemporary analogue, spotlighted in a passionate argument by Drug Topics reader Robert L. Mabee, RPh, JD, MBA.

Hospital pharmacy directors throughout Texas are being repeatedly targeted by grey market drug vendors, according to a new study led by a faculty member at the University of Texas.

CareFusion has introduced new technologies designed to improve the safety, efficiency, and cost of intravenous medications as well as medication management.

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention recently joined a number of other global health organizations in the Fight the Fakes campaign to combat the growing problem of counterfeit and substandard medications.

BJC Healthcare this week received the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ 2013 Excellence in Medication Use Safety award.

If your inner entrepreneur is hollering to get out, maybe you should go for it.

Asking whether hydrocodone should be rescheduled is only the beginning.

In cancer patients with concurrent type 2 diabetes, metformin alone or in combination with other regimens was associated with 34% reduction in overall death risk and 38% reduction in cancer-specific death risk, according to a study in the December issue of The Oncologist.

Walgreens recently opened what is believed to be the nation’s first zero energy retail store. The Evanston, Ill., store uses approximately 850 solar panels and 2 wind turbines, and is anticipated to produce more energy than it consumes.

A new government report found evidence of Veterans Affairs doctors at one California hospital renewing highly addictive narcotic painkillers for patients they had never seen.

FDA has approved sofosbuvir (Sovaldi, Gilead) to treat chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. According to FDA, Sovaldi is the first drug that has demonstrated safety and efficacy to treat certain types of HCV infection without the need for co-administration of interferon.

Do you have the qualities to become an exceptional pharmacy leader? Captain Mark E. Brouker, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, who recently retired from the U.S. Navy's Medical Service Corps after 30 years of service, outlined 3 top leadership qualities during his keynote speech at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting in Orlando.

Cardinal Health has introduced a new service that enables hospital outpatient pharmacies to have prescriptions filled at offsite locations.

A specific type of diabetes drug can decrease the risk of cancer in female patients with type 2 diabetes up to 32%, according to a study published in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. People with type 2 diabetes have a higher rate of cancer development and recurrence compared to the general population.

Joshua Benner, president and CEO of Rx Ante, discusses how pharmacies can use analytics to determine which patients are more likely to not take medicines as prescribed, then focus pharmacy efforts on those patients.

Caremark LLC, a division of CVS Caremark, has agreed to pay $4.25 million to five states to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicaid programs by billing them for prescription costs paid by private insurers.

FDA has approved simeprevir (Olysio, Janssen Therapeutics) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection as part of an antiviral treatment regimen in combination with pegylated interferon and ribavirin in genotype 1 infected adults with compensated liver disease, including cirrhosis.

Teamwork between pharmacists and doctors benefits patients, and collaborative practice agreements will help make that teamwork possible.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists will be honoring its recipients of the 2013 ASHP Best Practices Award in Health-System Pharmacy during a reception at the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition.

During its annual foundation dinner in New York City this week, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation raised more than $1.8 million to support research, education, and medication adherence initiatives.