Colleen Hall

The advisory board voted unanimously on Wednesday to recommend HPV vaccines for people through age 26.

Digital innovations are opening up a world in which patients can remain better informed about their health and pharmacists can use digital metrics to help their patients make more informed health care decisions.

Suzanne Soliman, PharmD, founded the Pharmacist Mom Group on Facebook, and it has since grown to be 1 of the most active on the popular social media platform, with more than 2 million posts last year alone.

It was during the middle of the night when Suzanne Soliman, PharmD, founder of the Pharmacist Mom Group on Facebook, got the idea for her group page, which has since grown to be one of the most active on the popular social media platform, with more than 2 million posts last year alone.

Last week, National Association of EMS Physicians members joined with other health care professionals on Capitol Hil to bring attention to the issue of drug shortages, as emergency medical facilities across the country are forced to severely restrict use of certain IV fluids, anti-nausea medications, airway management medications, and other essential emergency medications (EEMs).

The CBD-related items include non-THC containing topical creams, patches and sprays.

Suicide rates have risen in nearly every state since 1999.

The report authors noted that people with type 1 diabetes spent $5,705 on insulin in 2016, up from $2,864 in 2012.

Fentanyl, heroin, hydrocodone, and methamphetamine among the most frequently mentioned drugs connected to overdoses, according to a new report from the CDC.

Fentanyl, heroin, hydrocodone, methadone, morphine, oxycodone, alprazolam, diazepam, cocaine, and methamphetamine were the leading drugs cited,

Officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week proposed requiring drug manufacturers to include prices in direct-to-consumer television advertisements for prescription drugs.

Officials with the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing Association (PhRMA) said in a press release that they plan to request member companies’ direct-to-consumer (DTC) television advertisements to direct patients to information about medicine costs, including the list price of the medicine, out-of-pocket costs or other context about the potential cost of the medicine and available financial assistance.

Partnering with a physician to deliver chronic care can be an important way for pharmacists to not only better service patents, but also derive additional revenue.

It is important for pharmacists to position themselves as the health experts that can help patients with chronic conditions, and as the experts on the Medicare payment codes that can benefit both physician and pharmacist.

Officials with the National Community Pharmacists Association called the opioid relief package that is awaiting President Trump's signature "vital."

Offering immunizations (and making sure to carefully assess immunizations are up to date), medication therapy management (MTM), medication synchrnonization, and point of care testing are all ways, Kneeland explained, that pharmacists can carve out a niche for themselves.

HR 6—which was passed in the Senate on Wednesday and in the House of Representatives last week—instructs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a technical expert panel to review quality measures regarding opioids and opioid use disorders.

The social media post noted that grief counselors will be made available to associates and "will remain available as long as they are needed."

Pharmacy gag clauses forbid pharmacists from proactively telling consumers if their prescription would cost less if they paid for it out-of-pocket rather than using their insurance plan.

The Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act would prohibit insurers and prescription benefit managers from using gag clauses by health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers.

NCPA officials applaud passage.

The opioid reversal agent Narcan (naloxone) was reportedly used to save singer Demi Lovato’s life after an apparent drug overdose, and pharmacists may get more questions this week about what this medication is used for and how to use it. A video below contains advice on how to answer those questions.

Stay tuned all week to watch our Editor in Chief's RAGBRAI ride with the Iowa Pharmacy Association.

All week, Pharmacy Times Editor in Chief Troy Trygstad will be providing updates on this website about his ride across Iowa with the IPA.

All week, Pharmacy Times Editor in Chief Troy Trygstad will be providing updates on this website about his ride across Iowa with the IPA.

Amazon will start prescription delivery with a focus on customer service and convenience.

President Donald Trump recently called for “tougher negotiation, more competition, and much lower prices at the pharmacy counter,” in a statement on lowering drug prices.

Fourteen years after it began, the EMD Serono Specialty Digest continues to take an in-depth look at specialty pharmacy from a health plan perspective.

In addition to showing no significant imbalance of BKLE amputation, the study also identified a HHF reduction in the general T2D population.

Researchers were not able to predict factors that would indicate that pharmacists actually dispense the medication.