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

COVID-19 vaccines used these messenger molecules, and the future possibilities are exciting.

The response to COVID-19 has elucidated the challenges and opportunities with pharmacy-provided services delivery.

Pharmacy and primary care are dramatically underallocated with COVID-19 doses compared with influenza efforts.

We have been saying a services model is the solution for 3 decades; now it is time to live it.

Community-based pharmacies can address many of the concerns of both policy-makers and residents of sparsely populated areas.

Next to clean water, the measles is the most effective public health intervention of all time.

Most pharmacists maintain an unconscious bias that severely inhibits the ability to evolve businesses into sustainable service models rooted in care delivery.

Without them, we are doomed to become irrelevant and are at risk of a complete mechanical takeover of pharmacy practice.

Being a Pharmacy Professional Means Doing the Things That Mass Production Cannot Do.

Although the progression to automated technology and delivrey brings convenience, it eliminates face-to-face relationships.

Hidden direct and indirect remuneration fees survive another round after announcement of final rule.

This longitudinal and patient-level delivery model is both engaging and professionally fulfilling.

2018 Set the Stage for 2019, as Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Drug Wholesalers Found Themselves on the Hot Seat.

Ideally, scale provides a reduction in the cost of producing the next unit of product or service while maintaining the ability to charge the same or a similar price for each unit.

Stead Family Children’s Hospital was built on a tiny piece of real estate between the main campus of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) and Kinnick Stadium, home to the University of Iowa Hawkeyes.

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right is a 2009 book written by Atul Gawande, a widely known and respected physician, who originally trained as a surgeon and has that special talent of bringing interesting takes to everyday life and work through analogies and storytelling.

I was having a conversation with a colleague and friend recently, and he mentioned that his group was planning on experimenting with remote order entry and medication verification so that pharmacies in rural areas could use a technician instead of a pharmacist to dispense medications.

US-based businesses and taxpayers have become increasingly frustrated with the double whammy of increasing spending on medications without the decreasing cost of care from a healthier population.

Nonprescription medications play an essential role within the US health care system as a highly accessible, effective, and safe means by which to treat hundreds, if not thousands, of ailments, symptoms, and, in many circumstances, underlying conditions.

The original Chicken Soup for the Soul book was published in 1993. More than 250 versions of the franchise have been published, many with health care themes.

The original Chicken Soup for the Soul book was published in 1993. More than 250 versions of the franchise have been published, many with health care themes.

"Profound" does not even begin to describe the importance of genetic discovery.

When I started thinking about what I needed for my 40th birthday party, I did what any reasonable person going through a midlife crisis would do: searched online for a beer pong table.

For a number of decades now there have been groups of pharmacists blessing, embracing, or in some instances, fully advocating for pharmacists to completely disassociate themselves as professionals from the act of dispensing a medication.

Over the course of a lifetime the average person will take on about 12 different jobs.

Price sensitivity is a fundamental economic principle that has played a more minor role in health care compared with other goods and services.

The new buzzword in health policy circles is value.

Payment reform has been proceeding at a brisk pace and is now seemingly unstoppable.

Prescription fill history may not tell the full story of patient nonadherence.

Each patient's experience with their medication(s) is unique, no matter how complex or simple the regimen.