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Customer satisfaction with mail-order pharmacies declined again in an annual study by J.D. Power and Associates.

Women with gestational diabetes should be proactive about monitoring and maintaining their health.

In order to harness their potential and fully utilize their clinical and professional training, pharmacists must take control of the role they play in the health care system.

Researchers are pursuing a variety of treatment options for the significant portion of patients whose reflux symptoms continue despite taking proton pump inhibitors.

A recent study finds pre-diluted gray tattoo ink to be the cause of a Mycobacterium chelonae skin infection outbreak in Rochester, New York.

The decline of independent pharmacies and rise of retail chains have been key factors in making pharmacy unusually egalitarian in terms of pay and opportunity for women, argue a pair of Harvard economists.

Patients with high cholesterol who took tablets with plant sterols and stanols had reduced low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in a randomized crossover study.

Each community pharmacy has its own particular needs and cannot be mass produced or compartmentalized into a single simplified business model.

Even if you can only put a little money away at this stage in your life, it will be worth it in the long term.

Melanoma accounts for just 5% of skin cancer cases, but 3 times as many deaths as all non-melanoma skin cancers combined.

The app for iPhone and iPad allows users to use whole body photography to track moles that may develop into melanoma.

A T-cell usually associated with allergies and asthma may be effective in fighting melanoma, according to the results of a recent study.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a genetic test to help predict survival odds for patients with ocular melanoma.

Combination therapy with the BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib and immunotherapy appears to produce improved results in a mouse model.

Compounds extracted from strawberries demonstrated an ability to protect cell culture against DNA damage from ultraviolet radiation, raising the possibility that they could help produce creams to protect against melanoma and other skin cancers.

Several melanoma experts discuss new treatments for the condition, including vemurafenib (Zelboraf) and ipilimumab (Yervoy).

Isaac Brownell, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses means of preventing and detecting skin cancers, including basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma.

An alert from the Joint Commission includes a number of ways to ensure safe administration of opioids in hospitals, several of which emphasize the role of pharmacists.

Researchers believe that their program, tested at Johns Hopkins Hospital, has the potential to dramatically reduce the risk of adverse drug events.

At hospitals around the country, pharmacists are helping to increase scores on the medication and pain management sections of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey.

Antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and the sleeping pills known as Z-drugs are all associated with a significantly increased risk of car accidents, according to a new study.