December 2017 Heart Health

The City Council Committee on Finance approved a measure that restricts pharmacists to filling orders for no more than 10 patients per hour.

As the Executive Director and CEO of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB), Everett B. McAllister, RPh, MPA, has both witnessed and shepherded a number of significant changes in the technician profession.

Read about the new Generic Products featured in December.

Read about the new Rx Products featured in December.

One option to help patients: brown bag consults, which can be essential safety and educational tools to measure and ensure quality care.

A pharmacist was charged in federal court with numerous counts of submitting fraudulent claims for reimbursement to federally run health plans, along with a number of other financial transgressions.

In late October 2017, President Donald J. Trump declared the opioid abuse problem in America a national emergency.

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune-mediated neuromuscular disease characterized by muscle weakness.

To better accommodate this significant portion of the population, a new form of health care has broken through to redefine the nature of medici- nal services: telehealth.

When people hear the word cholesterol, they typically think of a fatty, plaque-building substance that comes from the foods we eat.

The number of deaths associated with cardiovascular disease in 2015 was estimated at 17.7 million and accounted for 31% of global deaths.

An estimated 20% of 30-day hospital readmissions happen because of an uncoordinated transition of care.

These medication errors have occurred at least once in community pharmacies in the United States.

In addition to their anti-inflammatory and analgesic activity, NSAIDs that inhibit cyclooxygenase-1 reversibly inhibit platelet aggregation and reduce the ability of the stomach lining to prevent ulceration.

Sometimes, it seems that dyslipidemia is a moving target.

Read about the new OTC Products featured in December.

Which OTC products should these pharmacists recommend?

"Profound" does not even begin to describe the importance of genetic discovery.

To their patients, pharmacists are many things: medication experts, immunizers, educators, and perhaps even friends.

In these articles, the statement “The OnGuard/Tevadaptor system is not considered a closed-system transfer device (CSTD) in its country of manufacture (Israel), and its sale was banned in Sweden as the result of a court ruling” is incorrect and was taken from a source1 that did not provide attribution for its statements.