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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.

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.

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

Patients who quit taking their statins are frequently on 3-4 other meds as well, and drug interactions are amplifying their experience of muscle pain.

Medication adherence can be greatly improved when pharmacists meet with patients and synchronize their meds.

Independent community pharmacists who want to sell or expand their business can consult with a new network of resources established by AmerisourceBergen Corp.

The Michigan Senate has approved a bill that would allow medical marijuana to be dispensed by pharmacies throughout the state. However, the vote by the Michigan senators is merely symbolic, as FDA would have to reclassify marijuana as Schedule II to allow such dispensing.

Medication adherence rates for HIV patients with associated comorbidities such as mental illness was higher for patients using Walgreens HIV-specialized pharmacies than for patients using the chain’s other retail pharmacies, according to two recently released studies.

When pharmacists manage drug therapy for physicians, diabetes patients see a significant improvement in key measures.

The U.S. healthcare system, broken even before the Affordable Care Act, needs a team-based care approach that’s more focused on patients, as well as an increased political effort to advance healthcare, according to researchers speaking at a JAMA media briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on November 12.

CMS' new rules for fees, mail order, and delivery of diabetes testing products have created big challenges for patients and the community pharmacists who used to deliver their supplies.

Prescribers treating obese and overweight patients with diabetes now have two new treatment options to consider.

In the wake of last year's fungal meningitis tragedy, the Specialty Sterile Pharmaceutical Society brings a new voice to an industry under fire.

Grass-roots successes achieved at the state and local levels support federal initiatives pursued by the national pharmacy organization.

Patients in rural settings can still receive personalized care from pharmacists. With tele consults, all they need is an internet connection and a laptop.

Popular contributor "Goose" Rawlings offers a simple solution to a universal problem.

With obesity rates growing and diabetes diagnoses going up, healthcare providers are focusing on the need to treat GDM in both mother and unborn child.

How can an independent pharmacy survive in the face of competition from the mega-chains? Here's a clue.

When it comes to knowledge of medications and their actions, pharmacists have it way over most physicians. For the sake of the patient, you have to speak up, whether the doc likes it or not.

In disaster relief, inappropriate pharmaceutical donations and/or a disorganized receiving operation can mean that tons of medications go straight into the rubbish.

The bicameral legislation provides specific requirements for all stakeholders in the drug-distribution supply chain, including manufacturers, wholesalers, repackagers, and pharmacies.

CSL Behring's Kcentra is is currently the only 4-factor PCC available in the United States.

Use of both AACE and ADA/EASD guidelines can benefit physicians, pharmacists, and other healthcare practitioners.

Drug Topics’ legal compliance columnist named partner in Roetzel's Chicago office and head of the firm’s Drug and Pharmacy practice.

Product updates for pharmacists: New Rx, generic, and OTC

Technology-based messaging support for at-risk and diabetic patients is being tested in 17 communities across the country. Three of the participating programs have released their evaluations and conclusions.

A peek into a very special world.