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In this clip, Maurie Markman, who spoke at the CFS Symposium in NY this week, discussed the role of pharmacists in managing patients with cancer.

Skin cancer remains the most common form of cancer in the United States, with more than 65,000 cases of melanoma estimated in 2011, according to the CDC.

In this video, Jeffrey Lombardo, PharmD, who is the executive patient safety officer for UB’s patient safety organization Empire State Patient Safety Assurance Network, discusses the use of RTUs in patients with cancer.

In this clip, Jeffrey Lombardo, PharmD, who is the executive patient safety officer for University at Buffalo's patient safety organization Empire State Patient Safety Assurance Network, explains the challenges pharmacists will face in transitioning to USP800.

In this clip, Jeffrey Lombardo, PharmD, who is the executive patient safety officer for University at Buffalo's patient safety organization Empire State Patient Safety Assurance Network, explains the challenges compounding pharmacies will face with USP800.

President Trump signed into law a pair of bipartisan bills that has made 'gag clauses' in contracts an illegal practice.

The 2018 NCPA Digest found independent community pharmacies offer a variety of services.

A presentation at NCPA shows how pharmacists can evolve their services to meet the needs of different age groups.

Jim Spoon, PharmD, owner of Spoon Drug in Sand Springs, OK, has been named the National Community Pharmacists Association 2018 Willard B. Simmons Independent Pharmacist of the Year.

It is important for pharmacists to position themselves as the health experts that can help patients with chronic conditions, and as the experts on the Medicare payment codes that can benefit both physician and pharmacist.

Oct. 12 is the day to honor women pharmacists everywhere.

Theresa Tolle, owner of Bay Street Pharmacy in Sebastian, Fla., was recognized with the award.

Offering immunizations (and making sure to carefully assess immunizations are up to date), medication therapy management (MTM), medication synchrnonization, and point of care testing are all ways, Kneeland explained, that pharmacists can carve out a niche for themselves.

Pharmacy Times® and Parata Systems named the winners of the 2018 Next-Generation Pharmacist® Awards yesterday at a ceremony held concurrently with the 2018 NCPA Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

HR 6—which was passed in the Senate on Wednesday and in the House of Representatives last week—instructs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a technical expert panel to review quality measures regarding opioids and opioid use disorders.

The Qualified Business Income Deduction proposed rule would expand the "specified service trade or business," or SSTB, definition of "services performed in the field of health" to include pharmacists.

This event continues through tomorrow until the start of the National Community Pharmacy Association’s annual meeting.

A pair of bipartisan bills that would lift ‘gag clauses’ prohibiting lower prescription drug price information to be shared with customers have been passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate.

NCPA officials applaud passage.

In this clip, Laura Davis Taylor and Ed King, co-founders of The High Street Collective share their 5 tips to make your pharmacy stand out and keep customers coming back.

In this video from the National Association of Chain Drug Store's Total Store Expo (NACDS TSE), Anthony Pudlo, PharmD, MBA, Vice President of Professional Affairs at the Iowa Pharmacy Association, talks about technician product verification in Iowa, and how this has benefitted both technicians and pharmacists.

In this interview from the National Association of Chain Drug Store's (NACDS) Total Store Expo, Laura Davis Taylor and Ed King, Co-founders of the High Street Collective, share what they think retail pharmacy will need to look like in the future to stay relevant.

Pharmacists can help eliminate certain barriers to condom use by understanding the range of products available.

On our own Instagram page, Pharmacy Times asked our followers if they had heard about menstrual cups at their pharmacy and if they were interested in learning more.