Community/Retail

Are pharmacy benefit managers to blame for the overuse of atypical antipsychotics in long-term care facilities?

Young athletes and coaches are urged to use common sense and appropriate measures when practicing or playing on hot, humid days.

MAJ Jeffrey Neigh, PharmD, BCPS, Deputy Chief at Eisenhower Army Medical Center Department of Pharmacy in Fort Gordon, Georgia won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist(TM) of the Year award.

John Forbes, RPh, owner of Medicap Pharmacy in Urbandale, Iowa, won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist Civic Leader of the Year award.

Ken Fields, PharmD, president/owner of ApproRx and Waynesville Pharmacy in Waynesville, Ohio, won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Kyle Burcher, of the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy in Athens, Georgia, won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist(TM) Future Pharmacist of the Year award.

Autumn Wells, PharmD, clinical community pharmacist and pharmacy manager at Family Drug Inc. in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist Industry Advocate of the Year award.

Whitaker Moose, Sr., BSPharm, of Moose Drug Company in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist(TM) Lifetime Achievement award.

Tina Fiebelkorn, BSPharm, Consultant Pharmacist with Fiebelkorn Pharmacy Consulting Services, PLLC in Getzville, New York, won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist Long-Term Care Pharmacist of the Year award.

MAJ Jeffrey Neigh, PharmD, BCPS, Deputy Chief, Eisenhower Army Medical Center Department of Pharmacy in Fort Gordon, Georgia, won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist(TM) Military Pharmacist of the Year award.

Steffany Loper, PharmD, pharmacy manager at Kroger Pharmacy in Delaware, Ohio, won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist(TM) Patient Care Provider of the Year award.

Abby Caplan, PharmD, clinical coordinator, Kerr Health LLC of Kerr Drug, Inc., in Zebulon, North Carolina, won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist Rising Star of the Year award.

Jeanne Li, CPhT, independent consultant, of Elk Grove, California, won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist(TM) Technician of the Year award.

Diane Gatchell, RPh, director of pharmacy at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts, won the 2011 Next-Generation Pharmacist(TM) Technology Innovator of the Year award.

Florida Public-Private Partnership underscores the importance of pharmacists in helping patients prepare for the upcoming flu season.

The pharmacist-directed service can improve coordination of care from the hospital to an outpatient clinic for patients taking warfarin.

A new study by York University researchers finds that practicing yoga can reduce the symptoms of chronic pain in women with fibromyalgia.

A new study found that caffeine tablets may ease the painful throbbing in those who suffer headaches following a spinal tap.

Does pharmacy benefit when widely-used prescription drugs go OTC, or does our profession benefit more when they go generic?

Guest blogger George Van Antwerp argues that although PBMs may complicate pharmacists' lives, there is an opportunity to make lemonade out of lemons.

Among the products included as part of the acquisition are 7 pain medications and 2 infectious disease treatments.

Pharmacy Times and Parata Reveal Innovative Pharmacy Professionals to be Honored at Second Annual Awards Banquet in Boston

The expanded role of the pharmacist in today's health care system is a given fact, but it is one that has opened up debate.

It's become clear that the distribution of prescription drugs is a commodity business in almost everybody's eyes -- except the community pharmacist.