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Ongoing access to diabetes self-management education and support, and promoting good medication adherence are among the keys to managing high blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Stigma surrounding mental illnesses can prevent people from seeking treatment.

Walgreens is taking proactive measures to assist customers, team members and communities in the projected path of Hurricane Michael, and is preparing to fully support impacted regions in the storm’s aftermath.

The 2018 NCPA Digest found independent community pharmacies offer a variety of services.

A presentation at NCPA shows how pharmacists can evolve their services to meet the needs of different age groups.

Jim Spoon, PharmD, owner of Spoon Drug in Sand Springs, OK, has been named the National Community Pharmacists Association 2018 Willard B. Simmons Independent Pharmacist of the Year.

What's in a name? That which we call epinephrine by any other name would still be epinephrine.

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.

Can you solve the pharmaceutical mystery? Each week, a new case study is presented.

Oct. 12 is the day to honor women pharmacists everywhere.

Theresa Tolle, owner of Bay Street Pharmacy in Sebastian, Fla., was recognized with the award.

Officials with the FDA have approved a supplemental application for Merck's Gardasil 9 that expands the approved use of the HPV vaccine to include women and men aged 27 to 45 years

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.

Pharmacy Times® and Parata Systems named the winners of the 2018 Next-Generation Pharmacist® Awards yesterday at a ceremony held concurrently with the 2018 NCPA Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

The FDA has approved Akcea Therapeutics' inotersen (Tegsedi), an antisense oligonucleotide that inhibits the production of the transthyretin protein (amyloid), for the treatment of the polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in adults.

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 Qualified Business Income Deduction proposed rule would expand the "specified service trade or business," or SSTB, definition of "services performed in the field of health" to include pharmacists.

This event continues through tomorrow until the start of the National Community Pharmacy Association’s annual meeting.

Although their use is sometimes necessary, overprescribing the bacteria-killing drugs can be dangerous.

The Pharmacy Quality Alliance has praised the bipartisan efforts of Congress in passing the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (HR 6).

A program that provides pre-exposure prophylaxis to those at high risk of the infection is feasible and could help lower incidences, according to a study being presented at ID Week.

This weekly video program provides our readers with an in-depth review of the latest news, product approvals, FDA rulings, and more. Our Week in Review is a can't miss for the busy pharmacy professional.

Efavirenz exposure (EVF) in utero is being linked to higher risk of neurologic abnormalities in infants and children.

Officials with the FDA have approved emicizumab-kxwh (Hemlibra, Genentech) for routine prophylaxis to prevent or reduce frequency of bleeding episodes in adults and children, ages newborn and older, with hemophilia A without factor VIII inhibitors.

The FDA has approved sarecycline (Seysara, Almirall) for the treatment of inflammatory lesions of non-nodular moderate to severe acne vulgaris in patients aged 9 years and older.

The CDC suggests that providers can better inform women about the recommended maternal vaccines.

Given the knowledge that a single pharmacy position can attract hundreds of applications, you must do everything possible to keep yourself in contention.

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) has published guidelines with practical recommendations and best practices for preventing patient harm from medication errors.