Community/Retail

Often-missed requirements for the community pharmacy manager

Watch a product demonstration of Equashield® Pro.

The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) is proud to join 16 other national nonprofit health care organizations in raising awareness among the provider community of illegal online pharmacies and counterfeit medications.

2017 is just around the corner and to celebrate, Pharmacy Times thought we’ take a look back at some of our top read stories of the past year.

The FDA has issued a drug safety communication for young children and pregnant women regarding the use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs during surgeries or procedures.

The recommended time to begin antiretroviral therapy (called the ART-start threshold) has changed since ART first arrived in the mid 90s. Now, clinicians are able to prescribe ART more liberally because of its improved adverse event profile and wider array of available drugs.

Walmart and Green Dot have announced the introduction of “Prize Savings,” a prize-linked savings incentive program available to the millions of Walmart MoneyCard-holders.

The Kroger Co. has announced a one-time Voluntary Retirement Offering for certain non-store associates.

A recent New England Journal of Medicine publication addressed the rising costs of naloxone, but failed to address many of the hidden issue that are buried within routine pharmacy practice. Here we unveil some of the less obvious reasons and offer software solutions to help pharmacists safe lives.

Mary Golf, PharmD, discusses the latest in research options for CLL management.

What does President-elect Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress claim is in store for healthcare over the next four years?

Adverse effects of medications can irrefutably steer a patient away from taking their medication.

Officials unveiled the world's first robot with closed system transfer device (CSTD), dubbed the Equashield® Pro, at the ASHP Midyear Meeting held here earlier this month.

The FDA has approved Anacor Pharmaceuticals’ crisaborole ointment (Eucrisa) for the treatment of mild to moderate eczema in patients 2 years and older.

A new AARP study showed that branded pharmaceutical prices soared by 15.5% in the past year and notes that the average annual cost for one brand name drug used on a chronic basis now exceeds $5,800

Many of us take in too much sodium, which can put us at an increased risk for health problems.

Starlight Children’s Foundation has unveiled a new state-of-the-art Starlight Fun Center mobile entertainment unit that will brighten the lives of children who are admitted to the pediatric emergency room at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

Researchers have published a single center retrospective study that looked at patients with low vitamin D levels who had previously developed myalgia on statins.

Governor Jay Nixon has announced that CVS Pharmacy will build a new 762,000 sqaure foot distribution center in Kansas City, Missouri, at the Skyport Industrial Park.

CVS Health has announced that the opioid overdose-reversal medication naloxone is now available without a prescription at all CVS Pharmacy locations in Nevada.

Pharmacists can assist in patients’ blood glucose control, and provides the same benefit to that of other providers.

If you want to work as a clinical hospital pharmacist, you better pursue a residency.

The industry has accepted that CSTDs were created to prevent deficiencies that exist when compounding with needles and syringes, including the escape of hazardous drug via leakage, aerosol, and vapor.

The FDA has approved Synjardy XR (empagliflozin and metformin hydrochloride, extended-release) tablets for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in adults. In combination with diet and exercise, Synjardy XR can improve blood sugar in patients.

Patients who have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are at elevated risk for HCV.

Young children are disproportionately affected by rotavirus, and it is a more severe disease for them.