Community/Retail

J M Smith Corporation has acquired the products and services offered by Integra.

National Community Pharmacists Association CEO B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA, issued a statement regarding today's hearing of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law.

Use this month-by-month guide to plan out your last year as a pharmacy student.

Use strategic marketing to increase the number of patients in your independent pharmacy.

At-risk children will attend local summer camps and youth development programs and gain access to nutritious food and school supplies, as part of a new $400,000 Hannaford Helps donation.

An FDA warning about compounded drugs stored in Becton-Dickinson (BD) syringes now applies to 4 more syringe sizes as well as oral syringes.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is making it easier for patients with shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA) to be compensated for their pain.

A New Jersey pharmacist has been sentenced to prison for 3 years for illegal online pharmacy dealings.

Bruce A. Berger, PhD, president of Berger Consulting LLC, discusses the barriers pharmacists face in utilizing motivational interviewing techniques.

Eric A Wright, PharmD, MPH, investigator I for Geisinger Health Research and associate professor at Wilkes University, discusses what community pharmacists can do to contribute to improving communication and patient care on transition teams.

A story in today's Wall Street Journal adds fuel to the growing concern that some drugs are priced too high.

AbbVie has announced the launch of the voting contest phase of its annual AbbVie CF Scholarship program.

National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) CEO B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA issued a statement regarding a court ruling to dismiss a complaint filed by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), the trade group for pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) corporations, intended to thwart a bipartisan Iowa law.

H. D. Smith's Third Party Network Manager Katie Geisler talks about the importance of Medicare Part D enrollment and reimbursement changes in 2016.

In response to meningitis outbreaks across US campuses last year, some universities are taking a proactive role in immunizing students as the school season returns.

Is your pharmacy business the way you imagined it would be, or is it more complicated and stressful than you had planned?

Pharmacists must develop and ultimately embrace a

How many of these drug name origins are you familiar with?

Treating chronic noncancer pain with long-term opioid use is a challenging task for all health care providers.

During the month of September, Rite Aid associates nationwide will honor 274 students who have been named recipients of Folds of Honor educational scholarships provided by The Rite Aid Foundation's KidCents program.

Despite the most recent meta-analysis published this week in the British Medical Journal, digoxin use in atrial fibrillation remains limited.

Jessica Kerr, PharmD, CDE, and assistant department chair at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville discusses what patients should know about Afrezza.

HIPAA creates a right to privacy, not a right to file suit.

New revisions to the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX) will be implemented on November 1, 2015.

An article citing the positive impact of prescription drugs on reducing other medical costs in the Medicaid program was published today by the distinguished peer-reviewed health journal Health Affairs in the September issue.

Mylan has launched a generic equivalent to Bayer's Yasmin birth control tablets.

The FDA has approved the first and only 24-hour aspirin formulation.

Cardinal Health has announced the opening of its Healthcare Supply Chain Innovation Lab, a research and development facility dedicated to reducing the $5 billion in waste in the health care supply chain for devices and implantables.

Gout patients may be at greater risk for atrial fibrillation.

Kristen L. Marjama, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, clinical educator with Healthcare Clinic at Walgreens in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, discusses counseling points that pharmacists can provide to patients on asthma medications.