Community Practice

A group representing the nation’s governors has endorsed provider status for pharmacists as a way to improve medical outcomes and lower healthcare costs.

Calvin H. Knowlton, BS Pharm, MDiv, PhD, has been named this year’s Remington Honor Medal award winner and will be recognized next month at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) annual meeting and exposition in San Diego.

For some pharmacists, leaving behind corporate constraints can be the start of something big.

Agency will use guidance in 2015 to address “key policy issues.”

In a world where insurance plans now fight for Star Ratings, why do we have a system that obstructs patients' efforts to obtain routine maintenance medications?

Pharmacists face changes as the profession continues to redefine itself, but for most, the money's still good.

New OTC products offer several approaches to symptom relief.

Blister packs, close follow-up, and tight pharmacy planning are features of the new model.

What should pharmacies do to keep patient data and credit- and debit-card information secure? Start with these steps.

New drugs, new generics, new OTC

Let this be the year you do something for the cause.

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Several state agencies here are combining resources to create strategies to prevent deaths and injuries from prescription-painkiller overdoses.

In an effort to curb prescription drug overdoses and short circuit pill-mills, Florida banned physician dispensing of strong opioids back in 2011.

Agency kicks medical product safety-monitoring into a higher gear.

During one six-month period, one West Virginia doctor wrote prescriptions linked to six drug-overdose deaths; nine other doctors wrote prescriptions linked to two or more overdose deaths.

Even as cynicism grows about the pharmaceutical industry, Americans continue to view pharmacists as among the most honest and ethical professionals.

What stories got the most attention from Drug Topics readers in 2014? Here are the top 10.

Pharmacists and other healthcare professionals have more work to do before consumers understand the dangers of misusing acetaminophen.

The owner and head pharmacist of the now-defunct New England Compounding Center (NECC), based in Framingham, Mass., and the supervisory pharmacist were charged with 25 counts of second-degree murder in seven states, more than two years following a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, according to December 17 statement by the U.S. Justice Department.

Now that pharmacists are being recognized as full members of the healthcare team, we don't have to worry about payment any more, right? Not quite.

A brilliant maneuver puts one drugstore chain ahead of the pack.

With pressure on pharmacists constant and intense, integrity is your best safeguard. Don't let it slip away.

What was pharmacy practice like before it went corporate? Here's a snapshot from Drug Topics contributor Truman Lastinger.

Until now, DEA has interpreted the Controlled Substances Act in its own special way. Now two senators launch legislation geared to the needs of everyone else.

A new community pharmacy network will connect with 1,800 medical practices that deliver 95% of the primary care in North Carolina.

Despite the ups and downs of 2014, pharmacists in both the community and hospital settings anticipate an improved business climate.

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What to do when your innards let you know that you've done too much already.

New Rx, new indications, new generics, new OTC