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From West Virginia to Utah, robbers have demanded narcotic drugs from pharmacies at gunpoint.

Roughly two-thirds of emergency department admissions for overdoses involve prescription opioid medications.

Federal officials are questioning state policies that mandate a 21-day quarantine of health care workers who treat Ebola patients.

Two groups of students from MCPHS University were named winners of the People's Choice Poster Competition at the 10th Annual New England Pharmacists Convention.

Women who develop gestational diabetes mellitus tend to have daughters who become obese later in childhood.

The FDA today granted breakthrough therapy designation to a new treatment for non-small cell lung cancer patients.

Armed robberies recently occurred at 2 Walgreens and a Rite Aid in Greensboro, North Carolina, alone.

While the etiology and pathophysiology of seasonal affective disorder are not clearly understood, there may be several underlying factors that lead to its presentation.

Draft guidance by the United States Preventive Services Task Force advocates screening patients with certain risk factors for impaired glucose tolerance to delay or prevent the onset of, and long-term damage due to, T2DM.

Chirag Patel, PharmD, a Walgreens pharmacist in Union, New Jersey, notes the hot topics Walgreens pharmacists have addressed throughout American Pharmacists Month.

Stephen Eckel, PharmD, MHA, BCPS, FASHP, divulges what he's learned from his fellow Next-Generation Pharmacistâ„¢ Award finalists.

Tracking influenza vaccination among health care personnel through an automated system enhances their immunization compliance while reducing their administrative burden.

The closer obese patients live to a grocery store with a decent selection of healthy foods, the more likely they are to have better diets.

Armed robberies were recently reported at Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid pharmacies across the United States.

Chirag Patel, PharmD, a Walgreens pharmacist in Union, New Jersey, details the methods Walgreens pharmacists use to raise awareness for the services they offer.

The rate of type 1 diabetes mellitus among non-Hispanic white youth increased significantly over an 8-year period.

The FDA has approved a new treatment for adults who experience bleeding episodes from a rare and potentially life-threatening form of hemophilia.

It might be time to stop complaining about preferred pharmacy networks, since many independents are included in them.

A suspected murder-suicide at a Texas hospital pharmacy has left a pharmacist and a pharmacy technician dead.

There was a time when drugs were believed to be unable to cross the placenta, as if it were some impenetrable fortress.

B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA, CEO of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), discusses increasing generic drug prices and the problems they create for independent community pharmacists.

Chirag Patel, PharmD, a Walgreens pharmacist in Union, New Jersey, explains how he encourages patients to take a more proactive role in their health care.

Three individuals who were in close contact with an Ebola patient have been placed under quarantine.

A drug repackaging company is voluntarily recalling nearly 12,000 boxes of Assured brand naproxen sodium tablets due to a packaging mix-up that left some cartons containing bottles of ibuprofen.

It is compulsory for pharmacists to counsel all patients receiving opioids, evaluate the potential benefit of a naloxone reversal device, and contact the opioid prescriber if such a device is deemed appropriate.

I'll never say I'm a running Yoda, but a running Obi-Wan Kenobi is an apt description.