Experts agree: generic drugs drive savings, not costs. Generics saved the U.S. health system $254 billion in 2014, according to the most recent Generic Drug Savings in the U.S. report compiled by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics on behalf of GPhA.
This article highlights several key therapeutics areas for insulin degludec that every pharmacist should know.
Once you enter pharmacy school, you'll quickly learn that being professional is essential.
The Kroger Co. was honored to receive the Rainforest Alliance's Supply Chain Partnership Award for developing a responsible sourcing program for its Home Sense tissue products.
Cardinal Health has entered into a distribution agreement with Biosensors that enables Cordis to sell Biosensors' coronary stent portfolio.
Several biologic drug manufacturers face biosimilar competition, but are financial markets pricing them appropriately?
Asplenic patients who contract encapsulated bacterial infections are vulnerable, so pharmacists should step forward to educate this population about complete vaccination coverage.
Sometimes, you simply need to do what feels best.
About 60% of patients with diabetes worldwide are Asian.
I saw a sign today. It was in my psychiatrist's office, and it told me that May is Mental Health Awareness Month.
Learn about the new drugs and expanded indications approved by the FDA in April 2016.
The FDA has entered a permanent injunction against Paul W. Franck, who allegedly manufactured and distributed products that violated the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Have you ever noticed a disconnect between a reported trend in pharmacy and what's actually happening in the trenches?
ASHP is partnering with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide an online training course for hospital and critical access hospital (CAH) surveyors on pharmaceutical compounding and USP Chapter standards.
Today, the Generic Pharmaceutical Association wrote a letter to Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) expressing strong opposition to the Pharmaceutical Stewardship Act, a bill that would increase the cost of prescription medicines without addressing the root causes of drug abuse.
Throughout pharmacy school, we're taught how to take care of our patients, and yet we tend to fail to take care of ourselves.
Staying focused on your personal and professional goals can be challenging.
The FDA recently approved pimavanserin (Nuplazid) as the first drug therapy for hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson's disease psychosis.
No patient should need to use escalating verbal combat just to be heard.
Pharmacists should double-check that patients with diabetes are vaccinated against hepatitis B, pneumococcal disease, and influenza.
In the pharmacy setting, it's hard to not get caught up in seeking perfection.
About 5% to 15% of the global workforce is estimated to have an occupational disease.
Amgen has announced the launch of the Breakaway from Heart Disease campaign to help make heart health a priority.
Life expectancy at birth either increased or remained stable for African-American and Hispanic individuals and white men between 2013 and 2014, but it decreased for white women.
A current civil lawsuit claims that a health system inappropriately filled fraudulent prescriptions for stimulants for nurses, staff, and family members.
The FDA has approved the first generic version of rosuvastatin calcium (Crestor) tablets.
Unless you work at a pharmacy while attending pharmacy school, the closest you'll get to a real patient as a student pharmacist is through simulated encounters with a paid actor.
All pharmacists know that loperamide is an OTC antidiarrheal, but they may not be familiar with its mu-opioid agonist activity.
ASHP today announced the official launch of Standardize 4 Safety, a three-year, multiphase interprofessional initiative focused on creating and promoting national standard concentrations for intravenous and oral liquid medications.
National Community Pharmacists Association CEO B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA, issued the following statement today in response to enactment of Oklahoma's S.B. 1150, legislation to boost transparency in generic prescription drug pricing and reimbursement.