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Staten Island hospital gives fatal overdose of fentanyl to man being treated for a broken arm.

How do you help a 45-year-old man with type 2 diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) lose weight?

In response to a number of deaths and serious adverse events reported by patients taking Fentora, warning letters were sent to health care professionals. According to Cephalon, Inc., the deaths primarily occurred as a result of improper patient selection, improper dosing, and/or improper product substitution.

Advisory committees to the FDA recently declined to recommend any set target or range for hemoglobin levels for patients taking ESAs to combat anemia associated with chronic renal failure.

The first human thrombin approved since 1954 will soon be available. Evithrom received approval of its Biological License Application by the FDA.

CMS will soon be denying reimbursement for certain hospital-acquired conditions, according to new rules published this year.

If biogenerics are approved as biosimilars, pharmacists won't have the power to substitute them, warns head of USP

A pharmacist and health food store owner challenges the ruling by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners that he was improperly acting as a doctor when he recommended OTCs for diseases

After a two-month delay, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy is again offering the North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam.

FDA's behind-the-counter drugs proposal draws mixed reactions from pharmacy associations

Independent pharmacies can survive if they find a niche in their community.

Branded pharmaceuticals, generics, OTCs, home-health products, health and beauty items

Is a new effort to codevelop drugs and diagnostics just an interesting concept or the future of drug development?

This is a salute to outstanding independent pharmacies that were nominated by their wholesalers.

Pharmacists share tips for successful medication therapy management programs.

For more than a century the soda fountain became a mainstay in community pharmacies, before falling on hard times.

There are several reforms for emergency preparedness in the workds that could affect pharmacists.

The FDA has approved a new treatment for anthracycline extravasation. Totect is indicated for the treatment of extravasations resulting from IV anthracycline chemotherapy.

Community pharmacists are in bad shape financially and new Medicaid rules could result in even more drugstores closing their shop.

Pharmacy organizations celebrate American Pharmacists Month and look to raise awareness of the pharmacist's role in healthcare.

This annual features takes a close look at the top performing independent pharmacies who were nominated by their wholesalers.

Sales of oral care products are steady. There are a slew of new oral care products on the market.

New Jersey pharmacists gathered recently to draw attention to and protest against what they hold to be a flawed reimbursement program for Medicaid generic prescription drug reimbursement contained in the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005.

FDA announces revisions to labels for Cialis, Levitra, and Viagra.

A new FDA final rule requires manufacturers that make life-sustaining single-source drugs to give six-month notice before they discontinue these products.

Menactra, a meningitis vaccine from sanofi pasteur, can now be used in kids from two to 10.

Pfizer to stop selling Exubera

Pain meds injected into joint space may cause permanent damage.

Eaton Apothecary to distribute InforMedix Holdings' Med-eMonitor.

Groups say cancer drug dosing best measured by CMS, Medicaid.