Community Practice

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is backing FDA’s recommendation that hydrocodone combination products be reclassified as Schedule II drugs under the Controlled Substances Act.

For years, Bernie Lisitza owned small pharmacies in the Chicago area. He eventually traded his dual role as owner and pharmacist and went to work for Omnicare, which dispenses prescriptions for nursing homes throughout the country.

Aaron Jennissen, VP, Pharmacy Operations, Thrifty White Pharmacy, discusses how that chain is using telepharmacy to improve both customer loyalty and reach.

The estate of a longtime owner and operator of a Buffalo pharmacy has donated $2 million to a local hospice.According to report by radio station WBFO, the money was received from the estate of William Bender.

In a letter sent late last week to the bill’s sponsor, more than 480 pharmacies endorsed the Medicare Efficient Drug Dispensing Act (S.B. 1493)

The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association is urging Congress to consider a series of policies it believes would save $100 billion in federal prescription drug spending and improve safety in Medicare and Medicaid.

Regardless of their income, employment status, and access to resources, patients want to support their health, and pharmacists can help them do it.

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is asking for answers to questions raised in a newly published report.

An overestimation of future pharmacist jobs plus too many pharmacy schools will lead to a joblessness crisis for new pharmacy students, predicts a recent report in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.

Vast majorities of people who see physicians for sore throats or acute bronchitis receive antibiotics, yet only a small percentage should, according to analyses of 2 major national surveys presented recently at the IDWeek Meeting in San Francisco

Pennsylvania, which has one of the highest rates of overdoses in the country, is moving closer to an Rx database that would list all prescriptions of potentially habit-forming medications.

Whether a patient receives proven and effective medications or potentially harmful ones may depend on where they live, according to a report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project.

"Because of poor medication adherence, the rampant prescription drug abuse problem, and the worsening primary care shortage, pharmacists are ideally situated,” says B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA, CEO of the National Community Pharmacists Association.

Friends, co-workers, and Auntie Alice are definitely not the folks to give you the best advice about drugs. And sometimes, neither is APhA.

Through thick and through thin, you're gonna go through it together.

All patients’ needs are not equal. The trick is finding the ones who need your services the most.

Overweight diabetes patients often look for answers in their drugstores' weight-loss aisles, where so-called natural products are available OTC. Not all these products are safe, and many patients don't realize it.

With its interpretation, HHS effectively eliminated approximately $1.50 per reminder in payments made to pharmacies by drug manufacturers.

A resourceful community pharmacist and his PG intern take stock of their patients' knowledge and come up with some dismaying data.

The new dean of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Texas Southern University called "visionary leader."

The AMA raised a ruckus over "drug store intrusion into medical practice." Turns out, lots of folks may have missed the point.

When pharmacist step up communications with patients and other healthcare providers, they see improved medication adherence, better patient outcomes, and reduced healthcare costs.

Patients randomized to acyclovir MBT experienced less time from prodromal symptoms to healing; more patients had abortive episodes that did not progress to vesicular lesions; and duration of abortive episodes was briefer.

ORBIT-AF study results indicate that the benefit of adding aspirin therapy to oral anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation patients is unclear.

Getting active in pharmacy causes brings plenty of reward - for your business, your community, and your profession. Here are some tips from some successful campaigners who are in it for the long haul.

New Rx, indications, generics, OTC, and devices.

With the ever-changing healthcare landscape, independent pharmacists are more vitally needed and relevant than ever, according to National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) CEO B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA.

Partly based on its support of medication adherence efforts, Merck & Co. Inc. received the National Community Pharmacists Association’s (NCPA) 2013 Corporation Recognition Award.

Community pharmacies will be able to help patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) understand medication directions and usage with QS/1 and RxTran’s prescription translation software.

Community pharmacists are well positioned to take advantage of new models of patient care delivery under the Affordable Care Act (ACT) as individuals enroll in the new Healthcare Insurance Marketplace and under Medicaid expansion, according to Carol Kelly, NACDS senior vice president of government affairs and public policy, on the NACDS website.