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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.

The Connecticut General Assembly has voted to expand medical marijuana access to patients younger than 18 years.

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 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.

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

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.

Patients will be asking whether they are candidates for the new PCSK9 inhibitors, and new guidelines published by the American College of Cardiology can help pharmacists determine and explain the role of these new therapies.

New data emerged during National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week showing an increase in childhood mental health diagnoses among military families.

Fresenius Kabi USA is voluntarily recalling a single lot of bupivacaine HCI (Sensorcaine-MPF) injection due to the presence of glass particulate matter.

If a pharmacy manager shows signs of transformational leadership," he or she may be inadvertently causing employees to take more sick days.