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Angela Patterson, MSN, FCP-C, NEA-BC, chief nurse practitioner officer of the CVS MinuteClinic, discusses the importance of health professionals' involvement in acne treatments.

A new mobile app called RXpert helps pharmacy students improve their speed and accuracy with sig codes through a fill-in-the-blank game.

Pharmacists may receive questions from patients about prescription fish oil Vascepa after its manufacturer won a court case against the FDA that will allow the company to market an off-label use.

Just ahead of CVS Caremark, Express Scripts finalized its 2016 formulary with some noteworthy inclusions and exclusions.

Celgene Corporation today announced that the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 ("HSR") with respect to the previously announced tender offer.

Today, Roche welcomed 100 European university students from 34 countries studying science and art to the Salzburg Festival, the world's largest and most prestigious festival of music and drama.

When a screening program is proposed, policymakers have some questions: does screening improve detection of the target diagnosis; is systematic screening better than opportunistic identification?

Rite Aid has announced that all of the company's nearly 4,600 stores nationwide will begin accepting mobile payments, including Apple Pay and Google Wallet, starting Saturday, August 15.

CVS Health has announced the launch of ScriptSync, a new pharmacy service that enables patients with multiple medications to pick up their prescriptions in a monthly CVS/pharmacy visit.

A negative culture in the pharmacy can diminish morale.

Hospital and health-system pharmacists must ensure that both internal sterile compounding staff and external sterile compounding facilities meet high standards of practice to ensure patient safety.

Cook Medical is recalling nearly 40,000 angiographic catheters following 26 reports of malfunction, nearly half of which resulted in adverse events.

Roche is seeking FDA premarket approval of its companion diagnostic test for AstraZeneca's investigational therapy for non-small cell lung cancer patients with an acquired resistant mutation.

As the only pharmacy school in Minnesota, the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy offers endless opportunities.

Simon Lu, pharmacy student at Rutgers University's Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, talks about the importance of developing relationships with patients.

Allergan, a leading global pharmaceutical company, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Oculeve, a development-stage medical device company.

Lately, I have been struggling to find time for the things I enjoy.

Pharmacists can play pivotal roles in pain management, such as counseling patients on properly selecting and using analgesics.

CVS Caremark recently released its 2016 formulary with several notable exclusions.

The public fear of human immunodeficiency virus has diminished since the 1980s crisis, and now many health care professionals are seeing less urgency surrounding HIV prevention and treatment.

Rupal Mansukhani, PharmD, clinical assistant professor at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers, talks about roadblocks to increasing immunization rates.

This episode of the Pharmacy Podcast Show features Timothy Aungst, PharmD, on mobile health, drones, and pharmacy technologies.

Infectious diseases pharmacotherapy is a challenging subject.

Learning how to cooperate with a manager should be every employee's goal.

Over the past decade we have seen a significant rise in opiate use and abuse, unfortunately, we have seen a paralleled rise in babies born addicted to opiates.

AstraZeneca today announced that MedImmune has entered into a license agreement and collaboration with Inovio Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company developing DNA-based immunotherapies.

AkzoNobel has won a coveted Red Dot Award for the digital version of its 2014 annual report.

In recognition of the third anniversary of EpiPen4Schools, Mylan, the marketer and distributor of EpiPen® Auto-Injector, has announced the program will continue through the 2015/2016 school year.