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There's still controversy regarding epinephrine's utility in cardiac arrest.

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 in the same version passed by the Senate, making President Obama's consideration and signature the final step before enactment.

Mylan has launched lamivudine tablets USP, 150 mg and 300 mg, which are the equivalent of ViiV Healthcare's Epivir tablets.

The Federal Government offers several loan forgiveness options, some of which may apply to pharmacists. Read to see if there is an option that could benefit you.

The California Department of Public Health has issued a drug overdose alert concerning deaths related to a fentanyl-contaminated tablet that looks remarkably similar to Norco.

Learn about the new drugs and expanded indications approved by the FDA in March 2016.

There's a pressing need for patients and health care professionals to quickly recognize and act on the signs of opioid overdose and withdrawal.

As the diabetic population continues to swell, diabetes care has shifted from being the purview of strictly endocrinologists to a focus for all health care providers.

MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is being studied as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Most pharmacists involved in resuscitation medicine are eagerly awaiting the outcome of the PARAMEDIC2 trial.

I learned a horrible truth from a patient the other day that I must say repulsed me.

Jessica Blume, Todd Jones, and David Phillips have been elected to Publix Super Markets' board of directors.

Here are 8 weird ways desperate individuals have tried to or successfully stolen from a pharmacy.

A group of 15 health care stakeholders today sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expressing concerns that the FDA Proposed Rule to change generic drug label requirements could permit multiple, potentially conflicting labels for therapeutically equivalent products.

The FDA has approved the first leadless pacemaker: Medtronic's Micra Transcatheter Pacing System.

Patients are frequently sent home with stacks of medication information that's cumbersome to read and regularly ends up in a waste basket.

A community pharmacist intervention program reduced the estimated risk for cardiovascular events by 21% in 3 months.

Approaching perfection is what excellence is all about.

in the midst of all the discussion on how to reduce opioid prescribing and abuse, there seems to be awkward silence when it comes to the largest group of opioid users: nonabusers.

Pharmacists in California can now prescribe and dispense birth control directly to women.

It seems as though the perceived clarification of certain inclusion and exclusion criteria had an immediate impact on the way acute ischemic stroke is treated.

Compliance and adherence are key factors for modern pharmacists to know because they're in an important position to encourage patients to follow their prescribed treatment regimens and to help modify behaviors in support of those regimens.

Alzheimer's disease, a neurological disorder expected to more than triple in incidence by 2051, has some interesting similarities with infections like the flu.

About 300 additional pharmacy students have been matched with residency positions in the second phase of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Resident Matching Program.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has proposed allowing physicians to prescribe buprenorphine for twice as many opioid-addicted patients as they do now.

Walgreens has made naloxone available without requiring a prescription from an individual's physician in all of its Pennsylvania pharmacies.

A patient presents with asthma, nasal congestion, and nasal polyps, and she says she has weird reactions to aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Do you know what condition this patient may have?

SpartanNash has announced that it is expanding its annual Earth Week celebrations to include 43 corporate owned retail stores, 18 distribution centers, 3 service centers, and 1 Commissary in 14 states.