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The conference emphasized the need for standardization and the importance of safety in the training of pharmacy technicians.

New express lanes are designed to make it easier for customers to quickly fill their prescriptions.

The Associated Press is reporting that federal authorities are ramping up investigations at VA and federal medical centers due to an increase in diversion of opioids and other problems.

The ISMP has issued a report that links several direct-acting antiviral agents for hepatitis C to serious adverse side effects. But drug makers take issue.

Pharmacists use their expertise to help patients -- as well as insurance companies. But we do it for free!

We need a system that cries wolf only when a wolf actually appears--not every time a chihuahua dances by.

Here: an overview of atezolizumab, the first new drug in two decades for bladder cancer and now approved for NSCLC.

Do your patients know about the interactions between common foods and drugs? We take a look at what you need to know.

Are you prepared to help when someone far from home has lost their prescription medications?

FDA is not authorized to review dietary supplements for safety and effectiveness before they go on the market. But it does provide an electronic safety reporting portal tailored exclusively for dietary supplements.

The tools for improving quality are available to almost every pharmacist and pharmacy technician, whose job is to make the system work. But this may be the weakness in pharmacy’s march to quality.

Greater accountability for pharmacy benefit managers? That's just one of the goals of the President of the National Community Pharmacists Association.

Looking for ways to increase medication compliance by challenging patients -- such as the elderly and those with mental illness?

Naloxone can now be dispensed without a prescription in 33 states and Washington, DC. Here's how two big pharmacy chains are making the livesaving opioid antagonist more accessible.

Health system pharmacies that require large-scale deployment of automated dispensing cabinets are faced with multiple challenges. Here's one solution.

How will money be spent on medications in the next 5 years? Here's a look at the top trends.

Pharmacists are on the front lines of helping to curb abuse and misuse in the opioid epidemic. But how can you make this happen in the real world?

Here's a quick overview of new drugs, a novel device that can replace fingersticks, and an “artificial pancreas” meant to make life easier for patients with diabetes.

Americans ranked pharmacists second only to nurses in a Gallup survey about trusted professions.

Some ASHP members are already in good shape; but 20% agree that “We are in trouble.”

The St Louis-based company received the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Cheers Award.

If pharma is “getting away with murder” with drug pricing, more generic and biosimilars can help control costs, says this group.

Pharmacy-led interventions in prior authorization processing resulted in a statistically significant benefit in improving time to PA approval, time to first fill, and time too pick-up.

A recent report projects an 11% to 13% increase in total drug expenditures in hospitals and health systems in 2016.

Trying to enhance medication management across a continuum of care in a multi-facility hospital IT environment is no easy task.

Completion of Phase I of ASHP’s Standardize 4 Safety initiative is fast approaching.

The Pew Charitable Trusts took a look at antibiotic stewardship programs in 10 U.S. health systems. Here's the result.

One other thing that really good leaders have: Really good managers.

The universal connectivity of everything in healthcare - “the internet of medical things” - is here