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Health-system pharmacists should fill their patients with diabetes in on the benefits of shared medical appointments after hospital discharge.

Katie Traylor, a PGY2 pharmacy resident in ambulatory care and family medicine, outlines the major glucose monitoring counseling points pharmacists can offer to patients prior to discharge.

The National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the National Community Pharmacists Association are urging adoption of a key TRICARE provision when House of Representatives and Senate negotiators work to reconcile differences in the House and Senate versions of the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act.

Publix Super Markets Charities has announced that it will donate $250,000 to Strengthen Orlando in support of the OneOrlando Fund.

Quest Diagnostics and Safeway are teaming up to offer diagnostic testing in 12 Safeway locations across five states.

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The fear of pandemic avian influenza in 2004 spurred the CDC to initiate an international capacity-strengthening program.

The FDA has issued a warning about the risks of taking high doses of OTC and prescription loperamide.

Health-system pharmacists can expect to see naloxone play an increasingly important role in their practice.

Jeff Goad, PharmD, MPH, discusses the benefits of Pepto-Bismol for traveler's diarrhea.

The short answer is: the accreditation document says so.

There are pros and cons in every pharmacy practice setting, but independent pharmacies may have more cons than others.

The Generic Pharmaceutical Association supports today's introduction of the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act by the Senate Judiciary Committee

Seena Haines, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA, FASHP, BC-ADM, CDE, describes the major glucose monitoring counseling points pharmacists should offer to patients prior to discharge.

Neutrogena sunscreen and Claritin antihistamines among No. 1 Pharmacist picks for summer

Some of the ways pharmacists can use motivational interviewing to improve adherence in ACS patients.

Pharmacists are the crux of successful care transitions between hospitals and post-acute care facilities.

Neuraminidase inhibitors prevent the spread of influenza within the body, but they don't directly eradicate the infection.

Step 1 for anyone who has Step 2 gold capsule dietary supplements in stock is to arrange for a return or to throw them away.

Christopher Betz, PharmD, BCPS, FKSHP, FASHP, discusses the scenarios in which certain patients may benefit from one acute coronary syndrome treatment regimen over another

Jeff Goad, PharmD, MPH, discusses OTC heartburn relief for travelers.

The 340B program helps rural and urban safety-net health providers care for underserved patients across America every day.

In feedback provided recently to the United States House of Representatives' Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health related to a hearing on legislation to improve and sustain the Medicare program, the American Pharmacists Association cited pharmacists as a valuable, but often overlooked, member of the health care team.

The National Community Pharmacists Association announced a new online video today that captures the value of independent community pharmacists to patients and to their local communities.

The Generic Pharmaceutical Association today announced the hiring of Kathryn L. Anderson, Vice President, Federal Government Affairs.

Costs and survival benefits of treating patients with metastatic colon cancer with second-line therapies vary considerably depending on the type of regimen provided in the first-line treatment, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy.

To address the gap in children's medicines, the World Health Organization and the International Pharmaceutical Federation today release new guidelines for health care professionals prescribing or supplying medicines for children when no authorised product exists.

Seena Haines, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA, FASHP, BC-ADM, CDE, describes how certain blood glucose monitors are designed to cater to certain health populations.