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Should PGY3 subspecialty residencies be part of future clinical pharmacy training?

Walgreens is launching a new mental health platform and campaign to help meet the growing need for resources and access to care.

Florida recently passed a law that restricts the sale of OTC dextromethorphan-containing cough and cold products to adults.

Learning pharmacy school material through a laptop may help students focus more on concrete details, rather than abstract ideas.

A pharmacy school facility for the University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Pharmacy will finally be built this summer.

More and more middle and high school students are taking up e-cigarettes.

Quest Diagnostics has received emergency use authorization from the FDA for the Zika Virus RNA Qualitative Real-Time RT-PCR test.

New technologies are eliminating the need for physical presence in directly observing adherence.

Despite the accepted practice and dogma dictating diltiazem IV to PO conversion, there's little, if any, evidence to explain why the formula seems to work.

Patients looking for a quick hangover cure may be disappointed to learn that many OTC products have little evidence to support their efficacy in treating hangover symptoms.

Most pharmacy ads are never read.

Common foods may have potentially devastating effects on drug therapy.

The US Preventive Services Task Force has critically evaluated the literature and provided recommendations regarding aspirin use for primary prevention of CVD and CRC.

The use of complementary and alternative medicine is increasing and integrative" health care is changing the face of retail pharmacy.

Patients prescribed and dispensed a brand-name drug instead of an equivalent generic version spent an estimated total of $24.6 billion in excess prescription drug costs between 2010 and 2012, a new study has uncovered.

The Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give is providing families the perfect setting to celebrate Father's Day this year with a variety of activities that will take place all weekend long at Blythefield Country Club.

Global gout treatment guidelines tend to differ on which drug should be used as first-line therapy for gout flares.

Former University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Dean Jessie Lyle Bootman is pleading not guilty to charges of sexual assault, sexual abuse, aggravated assault, kidnapping, and administering a dangerous drug to another person.

The FDA has approved Acadia Pharmaceuticals' pimavanserin (Nuplazid), the first drug that can help treat hallucinations and delusions associated with psychosis experienced by some patients with Parkinson's disease.

Americans dropped off a record 447 tons of unwanted medications during the latest Drug Enforcement Administration National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.

The NACDS Foundation is launching a Zika virus education initiative in Puerto Rico that will encourage women to consult pharmacists and physicians about ways to protect themselves and their unborn children.

Several US universities with pharmacy schools are ranked in the annual Academic Ranking of World Universities.

American Well's Jeff Kosowsky, senior vice president, corporate development, discusses telehealth technology infrastructure, solutions, and health-system empowerment.

Even when patients are granted access to a health care services price transparency tool, they don't seem to reduce their spending habits.

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New Jersey could become the next US state to permit pharmacists to provide birth control without a prescription.

Walgreens is now offering vaccinations that provide protection against measles, mumps, and rubella at all of its pharmacies throughout Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and Mississippi as health officials in Tennessee recommend vaccination due to a number of reported measles cases.

US Representative Earl L. Buddy" Carter, the only pharmacist in Congress, recently penned a passionate op-ed in The Hill to make a case for pharmacist provider status.