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Pharmacists are the most avid users of social media as part of their job search compared with other health care professionals, a new survey finds.

David G. Miller, RPh, discusses concerns regarding the regulatory status of compounding medications for office use by physicians or dentists.

New guidelines from the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology eliminate strict LDL cholesterol targets and include stroke risk in determining whether patients should take statins.

Opioid painkillers were given to more than half of nonsurgical US hospital patients, a study finds, with wide variations in prescribing rates among hospitals and notable variations based on region.

Steps can be taken to prevent bronchitis from becoming a chronic condition.

Stephan Foster, PharmD, FAPha, explains why pharmacists are providing an increasing portion of vaccinations.

David G. Miller, RPh, discusses H.R. 3204, the Drug Quality and Security Act, which passed the House of Representatives on September 25, 2013.

Risk of death from prostate cancer was reduced for patients who started taking statins after being diagnosed with the disease and was reduced even more for those who started taking statins before being diagnosed.

Cultivating a career in specialty pharmacy has never been more exciting.

All but a handful of adults who care for children with asthma failed to properly demonstrate the essential steps involved in using a metered-dose inhaler, according to a recently published study.

Jonathan G. Marquess, PharmD, CDE, explains why he decided to focus on caring for diabetes patients at his pharmacy.

Pharmacies play an important role in assisting patients after a disaster, so they need to have a disaster plan in place and conduct periodic reviews to ensure that it will work when needed.

Almost 1 in 10 adolescent patients at an emergency department reported misusing opioids or sedatives, and few had a current home prescription for the medication they misused.

Robert Granko, PharmD, MBA, discusses how his hospital system developed a model that used data to determine how pharmacists should be positioned.

Hospitalized children were more likely to develop hyponatremia after receiving hypotonic fluids than after receiving isotonic intravenous fluids, a study found.

The FDA announced that the last 2 asthma inhalers containing chlorofluorocarbon propellants will be phased out by the end of 2013 to comply with a treaty designed to protect the ozone layer.

Pharmacists need to help ensure that medications are not purchased from providers with lax standards of quality.

Joe Moose, PharmD, discusses what it means to shift from a volume-driven business to a value-driven business.

Patients need to achieve high levels of adherence to all the medications they are prescribed after a heart attack in order to reduce their risk of subsequent adverse cardiovascular events, a new study finds.

A study of influenza-related pediatric deaths from 2004 through 2012 finds that almost half of children who died had no known high-risk medical complications.

Pharmacy Times Health-System Edition Editor Stephen F. Eckel, PharmD, MHA, describes his most rewarding experiences working with pharmacy students.

Performance of statin therapy in reducing the death rate of pneumonia patients in intensive care units was so poor that a study was stopped for futility.