Community/Retail

The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy commends the Senate for its overwhelming 92-to-2 passage of S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act.

I'm devoting 8 weeks to helping you become a more effective pharmacist, based on my research and experience.

There has been some recent controversy regarding pharmacists' job prospects, and now it's time to set the record straight.

The FDA has approved Differin Gel 0.1% for OTC use.

Graduating from pharmacy school or finishing a pharmacy residency starts the pressure to a find a full-time job.

Publix Super Markets Inc. has announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase 10 Virginia stores from Ahold USA Inc.'s affiliate, Giant/Martin's.

For what it's worth, I've dreaded writing this for about 2 years.

Pulling all-nighters is almost like a rite of passage for pharmacy students.

Proponents of CMM often feel it's the only type of medication therapy management that should be employed and reimbursed.

Although many states have passed laws legalizing cannabis for qualifying medical conditions, medical boards continue to crack down on it because it's still a federally controlled substance.

Older patients' medications tend to multiply like weeds in a garden. As a result, there's been increased attention on deprescribing, the process of withdrawing an inappropriate medication under the supervision of a health care professional with the goal of managing polypharmacy and improving outcomes.

The FDA has granted fast-track designation to Lundbeck and Otsuka's idalopirdine, an investigational treatment for mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

Simulation exercises can positively alter pharmacy students' attitudes toward poverty.

Patient access to biosimilars will hinge on critical policy decisions around extrapolation and biosimilar label content, asserts the Biosimilars Council, a division of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association in comments to the Food and Drug Administration Arthritis Advisory Committee.

The National Community Pharmacists Association today announced its 2016 lineup of one-day seminars to help community pharmacy owners and front-end staff hone their merchandising and marketing skills, as well as a new sponsorship by Good Neighbor Pharmacy and Amerisource Bergen Drug Corporation to continue the Front-End Profit Building Seminars program.

The Pharmacy Quality Alliance has announced an expansion of its team by bringing on board two new staff and promoting an individual from the existing PQA team into a new position.

The PQA has announced that the PQA-endorsed measure, Use of Opioids at High Dosage in Persons Without Cancer, has been included in the Medicaid Adult Core Set of Measures for federal fiscal year 2016.

The FDA has granted approval to Shire's lifitegrast ophthalmic 5% solution (Xiidra), a twice-daily eye drop solution indicated for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease in adults.

Dual-degree programs allow pharmacy students to diversify their training and pursue certain career paths more easily than they would with a PharmD alone.

If your patients went elsewhere with their scripts, you may not be able to regain that lost business, but you can recapture their loyalty by offering new solutions to their aches, pains, and other maladies.

The FDA recently approved a device implanted in the cornea of one eye to improve near vision in certain patients with presbyopia.

The pitfalls of a pharmacist surplus have been clearly outlined, but several types of individuals and institutions may benefit from having more pharmacists in the marketplace.