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A Safeway pharmacist has been indicted on 14 felony counts and is accused of stealing at least 3000 doses of oxycodone, hydrocodone, and amphetamine salts.

Patients with diabetes have a higher pill burden than the general population, so pharmacists should pay particular attention to potential drug interactions with antidiabetic agents.

The FDA has approved Biofrontera's topical prescription drug BF-200 ALA (Ameluz) and medical device BF-RhodoLED.

Pharmacist job demand isn't a concern for the inaugural class of the Cedarville University School of Pharmacy.

As the pharmacy technician profession continues to grow, demand for skilled, trained, and highly competent pharmacy techs will climb.

Smoking can cause medications to become subtherapeutic, leading to slower improvement in disease states.

Getting out of our comfort zone may not be easy, but when we do it, we reap great benefit.

Many preliminary and final interviews for pharmacy jobs are conducted over the phone.

CVS Health has launched an in-store fundraising campaign at CVS Pharmacy locations nationwide to benefit the American Lung Association's Lung Force initiative, which aims to make lung cancer a public health priority.

Suicide rates in the United States declined from 1986 to 1999, but since then, they've been climbing somewhat steadily.

Pfizer Inc. and Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Pfizer will acquire Anacor for $99.25 per Anacor share for a total transaction value of approximately $5.2 billion,

Pharmacists may want to encourage their patients to receive the flu vaccine in the morning, rather than the afternoon.

The FDA has approved Flamel Technologies' new drug application for ephedrine sulfate (Akovaz), which is a drug administered parenterally to address hypotension in surgical settings.

True North talks about the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition, pharmacy benefit managers, and ongoing long-term care pharmacy trends and issues with Alan Rosenbloom, who is the president and CEO of the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition.

A new federal bill would compel the FDA to review contraceptive drug applications more quickly and make them available OTC.

Midwest retailer Meijer has kicked off the spring campaign of its signature hunger relief program, Simply Give, in an effort to help local food pantry partners restock their shelves.

A first-of-its-kind law in Maryland requires health insurers to completely cover the cost of emergency contraception.

This weekly video program provides our readers with an in-depth review of the latest news, product approvals, FDA rulings and more.

If it's been a while since you've taken the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination, test yourself on these NAPLEX sample questions to see how well you'd do on the test today.

Diabetes in pregnant women may be associated with a lower supply of breast milk.

The FDA approved 700 generic drugs in 2015, constituting a banner year in the agency's efforts to clear its generic backlog.

A man accused of robbery allegedly took off from an Arizona pharmacy with narcotics and then started to ingest the pills when police later confronted him.

The FDA is warning health care professionals and patients about products intended to be sterile that were compounded by Medaus Inc.

Serious side effects associated with fluoroquinolones generally outweigh the antibiotics' benefits for patients with uncomplicated infections like sinusitis and bronchitis, the FDA announced.

Experts agree: generic drugs drive savings, not costs. Generics saved the U.S. health system $254 billion in 2014, according to the most recent Generic Drug Savings in the U.S. report compiled by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics on behalf of GPhA.

This article highlights several key therapeutics areas for insulin degludec that every pharmacist should know.

Once you enter pharmacy school, you'll quickly learn that being professional is essential.

The Kroger Co. was honored to receive the Rainforest Alliance's Supply Chain Partnership Award for developing a responsible sourcing program for its Home Sense tissue products.