Community Practice

Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin backs state budget bill that would boost dispensing fee and hold pharmacists harmless if the average manufacturer price rule takes affect.

NextWave Pharmaceuticals and Kerr Drug to provide MyKidz Iron

Walgreens opens first Hawaii store with local product partners.

FDA to hold joint meeting to evaluate Merck's OTC use of Mevacor to help lower cholesterol and prevent heart attack.

Express Scripts' Distribution Services fined $10.5 million for providing human growth hormone to athletes, entertainers.

One person arrested and $8 million in steroids and human growth hormone confiscated in raid of Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Lowen's Pharmacy.

California fires close several CVS stores

Rite Aid and dLife partner to educate and support diabetes community.

ASHP fights federal rule to report NDC numbers.

Managed care organization publishes free resource on how to pay for pharmaceuticals.

Dec. 6 is new deadline for public comments regarding electronic distribution of prescribing information for Rx drugs.

DispenseQuick is a new drug dispensing system Dispensing Solutions Inc. is selling to Amerinet doctors.

NABP moves the NAPLEX exam to new vendor.

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.

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