Troy Trygstad, PharmD, PhD, MBA, Pharmacy Times Editor in Chief

Don’t be asleep at the wheel. AI is coming, and it’s coming fast.

Another bill, another day for the erosion of pharmacy benefits as a means of affording a prescription.

Arkansas' "shot heard round the pharmacy world": Preventing pharmacy benefit managers from owning pharmacies raises an interesting question for the field.

Yes. But that doesn’t tell the whole story.

The time frame concept is an underappreciated through line in most planning efforts.

Conventional wisdom on growing old is getting a second look.

COVID-19 changed the personal and professional lives of all pharmacy workforce members. But what now?

A politically and economically stressed system of health care delivery and benefits is manifesting in the pharmacy benefit management sector.

Exponential growth in development is unsustainable in biological systems. But what about AI?

There has never been such widespread and popularized use of compounded products due to shortages. Will consumers rise up with pitchforks if the party is shut down?

Criticism and inquiry are coming from all directions. Will investors earn more by holding on to the past or transitioning toward the future?

Blaming community pharmacies and community pharmacists for a lack of expedited practice evolution is naive at best, and disingenuous or outright malicious at worst.

Pharmacy is at a fork in the road. Business owners, investors, and (hopefully) practicing pharmacists will have a say in which direction the profession takes

Many ways exist to best serve communities and the bottom line beyond vaccine ordering and increased staffing.

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Advocates Have Been Calling for Pharmacist Practitioner Scope of Practice and Reimbursement for Decades, but What Happens When We Catch the Bus?

Patients, Consumers, and Caregivers Are Increasingly Interested in Self-Determination and Convenience.

Community-based pharmacists performed mightily at a cost-efficient scale and safety record that rivaled any in the history of health professions.

All fills are not equal in their complexity and cost.

With the rest of the retail world catching up with pharmacy queuing, will it change customer expectations at the counter?

Pharmacy technicians are evolving to new roles, working with new teammates

Despite the economic and structural support, rural, poor, and underserved communities still have wide disparities in health outcomes.

Our wacky health care system can’t pay pharmacies a few more dollars to survive, but we can spend billions of dollars on shipping costs.

Frustrations with the current means of achieving price discrimination have reached a boiling point, but the future remains uncertain.

The pharmacy is no longer considered to offer full service (or to be financially sustainable) without a robust vaccination practice.

Reproductive health is top of mind for many patients, public health experts, and policy makers, but will there be effects on the pharmacy industry more broadly?

Without intervention, this may be the tipping point that causes mass closures of pharmacies.

Preliminary estimates from the 2022 to 2023 season suggest that the burden of influenza is returning to a pre-pandemic level.

As patient access, public health advocates flex their muscles to reduce barriers to care, products, will that continue to translate in marketplace?

Navigating the Transition to Year-Round Immunization

Never have there been so many opportunities for non–dispensing pharmacist roles. At the same time, there has never been such a need to save the dispensing environment.