Community/Retail

Many factors besides limited distribution are affecting access to specialty medications by retail pharmacies, according to a new industry study from Inmar.

In a recent study, a majority of men reported they still wanted to receive prostate-specific antigen testing, despite recommendations by the US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) against the test.

Antimicrobial stewardship programs may reduce the amount of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions given to children with acute respiratory infections in primary care practices.

After several years of steady growth, rates of HPV vaccination among adolescent girls barely budged between 2011 and 2012.

Patients are likely to be confused by the various Medicare prescription drug plans available to them as well as the year-to-year coverage changes, but the basics are reasonably straightforward.

If diabetes patients covered by Medicare Part D used generic medications at the same rate as those covered by the VA, the program would save more than $1 billion per year.

As generic drugs become more common, the market for specialty drugs is likely to grow, creating challenges for community pharmacy.

Physicians increasingly treat back pain with narcotics despite a growing number of guidelines recommending that it be treated initially with NSAIDs and acetaminophen.

Patients who continued taking simvastatin and atorvastatin had significantly reduced risk of developing Parkinson's disease compared with those who discontinued statin therapy.

Progression of dementia was slower in patients taking ACE inhibitors, particularly those who had recently started taking them, compared with those not taking them.

A model of vancomycin-resistant enterococci infection patterns found that an increase in infection prevalence in a single hospital could have significant effects on other hospitals in the same county.

In her keynote address at the NACDS Total Store Expo, Hillary Clinton lauded pharmacists for the important role they play in our nation's health care system.

Heart failure patients younger than 60 years of age who took warfarin experienced significantly fewer adverse events than those who took aspirin, a new study finds.

Pharmacists need to adopt healthy behaviors if they want to inspire their patients to so do as well.

A new study finds that in children whose mothers had asthma attacks during pregnancy were at increased risk of a range of health problems.

Going the extra mile for all customers and dealing with belligerent customers calmly are key to success in retail pharmacy.

Hypertensive patients who participated in a 1-year pharmacist telemonitoring program were more likely to have their blood pressure under control than those who received usual care.