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The Institute for Safe Medication Practices surveyed hospital pharmacists and other practitioners about issues including who should be responsible for ensuring the safety of high-risk compounded sterile preparations.

All but 2 of 22 Orange County, California, nursing homes included in a study were found to have residents infected with community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

High-performing employees are at once extremely competent and excellent team players.

More than half a million Americans die from heart disease each year, but increased attention to its risk factors can help reduce this number.

The contents of vitamin D supplements tested in a study ranged so widely that researchers argue they should be subjected to increased oversight and regulation.

A long-term study of Swedish women suggests that consuming more than 1400 mg of calcium per day increases one's risk of dying, particularly of cardiovascular disease.

Even if you haven't been planning all year for how to keep your taxes low, there are still steps you can take when filing.

Some pharmacy operations will continue to need to outsource product compounding, but it is important that they take steps to do so safely.

A study including more than 80,000 Norwegian children finds that folic acid supplementation early in pregnancy is associated with a 40% reduction in the risk of developing severe autism.

Pharmacists can play an important role in informing adult patients of the vaccines they should receive to help protect against a range of infectious diseases.

Nominate a deserving pharmacist for the 2013 Next-Generation Pharmacist Awards, and watch videos of 6 winners from 2012.

A Massachusetts program that trained people to use the opioid overdose antidote led to significantly reduced rates of death from overdose.