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Is electronic prescribing the key to higher medication adherence?

Pharmacy professional organizations and stakeholders today released a standardized framework for documenting medication therapy management (MTM) services using SNOMED CT codes — a standard clinical terminology used for the electronic exchange of clinical health information and reporting of clinical quality measures.

Camber has announced the launch of Rosuvastatin, the generic version of Crestor tables from AstraZeneca, in 5-, 10-, 20-, and 40-mg tablets.

Is electronic prescribing the key to higher medication adherence?

Massachusetts passed a new law requiring practitioners to check MassPAT (the Massachusetts Prescription Awareness Tool) before prescribing narcotics. Whether this will help reduce doctor-shopping will depend on several things.

Pharmacists endure heavy workloads and long hours, but does all this time and effort actually do more harm than good?

The FDA has approved the first generic versions of 4 drugs―Benicar tablets, Benicar HCT tabets, Azor tablets, and Tribenzor tablets―that contain the widely used blood pressure-lowering medication olmesartan medoxomil.

The everyday compounding pharmacist is there to meet the needs of patients both human and animal.

Dr. Nelly Adel has been named chair of the Pharmacy Practice Department of the Touro College of Pharmacy.

QS/1 is excited to release one of the first pharmacy-to-agency interfaces for Therap, the leading provider in electronic records and documentation in long-term care environments for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

A former Clinical Pharmacy Manager at a Walgreens specialty pharmacy pleaded guilty to health care fraud crimes committed between October 2014 and April 2016.

Amneal has launched the first-to-market generic version of Vagifem, being sold as Yuvafem. The 10-mcg estradiol vaginal inserts were shipped to distributors and wholesalers beginning on Oct. 17, 2016.

Atopic Dermatitis (AD) is a chronic, pruritic, relapsing inflammatory skin disease. AD onset is most common between 3 months and 6 months of age, with approximately 60% of patients developing the eruption in the first year of life and 90% by 5 years of age. The majority of affected individuals (70% to 90%) have resolution of disease by adulthood

Zinc's major role in metabolism, endocrine regulation, immune response, and normal growth and development in humans has been well documented.

More than 86 million Americans over the age of 20 have prediabetes, 29 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, and another 8.1 million Americans are living with undiagnosed diabetes.

Patients with type 2 diabetes eventually need insulin therapy as their disease progresses. The American Diabetes Association recommends basal-only therapy initially, with the addition of bolus meal-time insulin as needed. However, recent research supports starting patients on combined basal-bolus regimens to control blood sugar regardless of added hypoglycemia risk.

The new EPS TampAlert Tamper-Evident Cap for Metric Only Oral Syringes helps pharmacists and nurses provide this protection for oral medication.

During its inaugural Helping Hands in the Community day, more than 80 SpartanNash-MDV associates volunteered a combined 480 hours at 8 local nonprofit organizations.

The FDA has awarded 21 grants for new clinical trial research worth more than $23 million to be spent over the next 4 years on the development of products for patients with rare diseases.

First Professional Development Provider to Integrate with BPS Reporting Platform in Real Time

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has just updated their safe infant sleep environment recommendations, citing evidence that infants should sleep in the same room with their parents, ideally for the first full year of life, but at the very least for the first 6 months.

In recognition of customers who protect themselves, their families and their communities by getting flu shots this season, the Rite Aid Foundation has announced that it is donating more than $1.8 million to KidCents charities.

The FDA has approved class-wide labeling changes for prescription testosterone products regarding risks of abuse and dependence associated with testosterone and other anabolic androgenic steroids (AASs).

For decades, clinicians relied on a limited number of drugs, including sulfonylureas and metformin, to help patients with type 2 diabetes. However, in the past 20 years, an increasing number of glucose-lowering drugs for diabetes treatment have become available.

The incidence of heart failure is increasing as the world's population ages and the rates of other, often comorbid, diseases (eg, diabetes, heart disease, obesity) increase.

The FDA has approved Lilly's Lartruvo (olaratumab injection), in combination with "doxorubicin, for the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma (STS) in adults.

BPS to move the Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (CGP) credential under the BPS portfolio of pharmacist certifications

FDA-funded ASHP Project Also Announces Comment Period for Oral Liquid Recommendations

How many times have you seen increasing doses of sleep medications prescribed to your patients?

A great need exists in the United States for readily accessible naloxone, and pharmacists have a vital role to play to increase its availability and safe use.