Chain Pharmacy

The movement to get naloxone into the hands of first responders, drug users, and their family members has found increasing support in state legislatures.

Most pharmacy shelves stock numerous alternative treatments for simple skin problems. Here are a few of the newer ones.

New Rx, indications, generics, and OTC

Physicians have been called "Doc" for so long that the terms are essentially identical. Why not designate pharmacists by a separate and distinct title?

With provider status now a reality in 38 states, HR 592 and S 314 have powerful Congressional support. How long before the payers come on board?

A new mental health platform on the Walgreens website will offer consumers free online screening tools and links to providers of followup care.

An "outpouring of new pharmacy-school graduates." "Fears of a manpower glut." 2016 headlines? Nope. The year was 1976.

In some professions, eternal vigilance comes with the territory.

Walmart has decided to put all its eggs in a really big basket.

Quasi-religious symbol? Sign of enforced conformity? Emblem of arrogance and superiority? Or simple professional attire? You decide.

Representatives of Teamsters Local 727 recently distributed leaflets outside Chicago-area CVS stores that accuse the retail chain of mistreating pharmacists by overworking them in understaffed pharmacies.

The fly in the ointment: CMS' current plan for HCPCS codes is a real buzz kill.

Everyone profits, including patients, who get paid almost $1,500 in HSA credits for their data - if they do as they are told.

Pharmacy technicians can do much more than just stock shelves and manage inventory. And the possibilities increase by the day.

Nowadays, we think of generics as economical options. Not so long ago, plenty of folks thought of them as sacrilege.

Walgreens’ posting of a sympathetic blog about the use of medical marijuana has created quite a buzz, with some online observers speculating the retail chain has its sight on that lucrative industry.

It's a modest proposal with potential for significant consequences. And all it will cost is a little more time.

Who says the options are limited? Not this family.

That’s the question a Richmond, Va. jury will decide in a case involving a pharmacist who accuses the retail giant of defamation, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

APhA's honorary president of the year talks about his proudest achievements and his vision for the future of the profession

Interested in finding out what integrative/functional pharmacy is all about? Here's a list of resources to get you started - and a thought to take away.

If nothing changes between now and 2018, we may see a 25% oversupply of pharmacists in the marketplace. Then again, we may not. What happens between now and then is, in large measure, up to us.

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

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

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

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.