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National Community Pharmacists Association CEO B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA, issued the following statement today in response to passage of S. 483, the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act, by the U.S. House of Representatives.

PDX and MarkeTouch Media have announced a new integration that will incorporate the certification of the PDX EPS Patient Notification Service with MarkeTouch Media's outbound and mobile notifications for prescription status updates.

Should we look at birth control prescribing as just another task for pharmacists, or should we view it as part of a wider effort to promote their primary care role?

The number of pharmacy schools in the United States increased from around 21 in 1900 to more than 170 (including satellite campuses) in 2014.

It's finally time for the 2016 Pharmacy Salary Guide.

Around 28,000 influenza infections are severe enough to warrant intensive care unit admissions each year.

Although coughing can be annoying, it is the body's way of clearing the throat and airways and helps to prevent infection.

There's still controversy regarding epinephrine's utility in cardiac arrest.

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 in the same version passed by the Senate, making President Obama's consideration and signature the final step before enactment.

The Federal Government offers several loan forgiveness options, some of which may apply to pharmacists. Read to see if there is an option that could benefit you.

The California Department of Public Health has issued a drug overdose alert concerning deaths related to a fentanyl-contaminated tablet that looks remarkably similar to Norco.

Learn about the new drugs and expanded indications approved by the FDA in March 2016.

There's a pressing need for patients and health care professionals to quickly recognize and act on the signs of opioid overdose and withdrawal.

As the diabetic population continues to swell, diabetes care has shifted from being the purview of strictly endocrinologists to a focus for all health care providers.

MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is being studied as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Finalists and Attendees to Celebrate at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts with Comedian Jimmy Tingle and The Paul Ahlstrand Quartet Jazz Band

Most pharmacists involved in resuscitation medicine are eagerly awaiting the outcome of the PARAMEDIC2 trial.

I learned a horrible truth from a patient the other day that I must say repulsed me.

Jessica Blume, Todd Jones, and David Phillips have been elected to Publix Super Markets' board of directors.

Here are 8 weird ways desperate individuals have tried to or successfully stolen from a pharmacy.

A group of 15 health care stakeholders today sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expressing concerns that the FDA Proposed Rule to change generic drug label requirements could permit multiple, potentially conflicting labels for therapeutically equivalent products.

The FDA has approved the first leadless pacemaker: Medtronic's Micra Transcatheter Pacing System.

Patients are frequently sent home with stacks of medication information that's cumbersome to read and regularly ends up in a waste basket.

A community pharmacist intervention program reduced the estimated risk for cardiovascular events by 21% in 3 months.

Approaching perfection is what excellence is all about.

in the midst of all the discussion on how to reduce opioid prescribing and abuse, there seems to be awkward silence when it comes to the largest group of opioid users: nonabusers.

Pharmacists in California can now prescribe and dispense birth control directly to women.

It seems as though the perceived clarification of certain inclusion and exclusion criteria had an immediate impact on the way acute ischemic stroke is treated.