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2023 SEP 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- New research on pharmaceutical research is the subject of a new report. [...]

2023 MAR 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- New research on public health is the subject of a new report. [...]

2023 JAN 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- New study results on pharmacy have been published. According to news originating [...]

Heart failure (HF) is a complex disease that affects 5.7 million Americans, requires an interprofessional management approach, and places a significant burden on the U.S. healthcare system (Bergethon et al., [...], Heart failure is one of the most common readmission diagnoses. Hospitals are being penalized when patients are readmitted within 30 days following a hospital discharge. This quality improvement project explored how an interprofessional approach involving a pharmacist may reduce readmission rates.

Harry Chavous, Bob Gladden, John LaMar and Rodger Logan are four of 20 Indianapolis pharmacists who passed the U.S. New and World Report test with flying colors I knew the [...]

Capitated pharmacy contracts are on the rise in the world of managed care pharmacy. With them comes a debate about whether they will help change the practice of pharmacy for [...]

The internet has spawned a glut of AA Gill wannabes. From reviews of restaurants to racing bikes, the web has made publishing a critique available to the masses. No surprise [...]

You've probably not heard of NCAS but the NHS body is likely to become a lot more familiar to pharmacists. Charged by the government with ensuring doctors and dentists practice [...]

From #1 a week wages to rice paper cachets, Edgar Bryant recalls life as a pharmacist at the time of the NHS launch Pharmacy has changed a lot since 1948. [...]

As Scotland secures yet more national service funding, Zoe Smeaton asks why England can't seem to follow its neighbour's lead Pharmacists in England looked enviously to their neighbours last week, [...]

We launch our first ever Awards ceremony to reward top achievers And the winners are... MUR Champion of the Year: David Smith New Pharmacist of the Year: Aniket Parikh Pharmacy [...]

I was cheered to read that Pharmaceutical Society Inspectors are to be allowed to deal with some of the more minor fitness to practise cases, thereby reducing the number of [...]

The first of a series of articles on ethics considers the repercussions of prescribing errors Key points * The pharmacist's duty of care requires more than just spotting obvious dispensing [...]

Money talks when it comes to pharmacy GP relations, say academics Rob Finch Pharmacists and GPs must be incentivised to work together to bring about improvements in the health of [...]

Being one of an increasingly rare breed of pharmacists who was actually born above the shop (rumour has it my sister was born at 20 to nine, I was born [...]

Northern Ireland's pharmacists are pioneers of innovative practice. But will their potential be compromised by contract delays and political upheaval? Max Gosney finds out When it comes to pharmacy, Northern [...]

Life is complicated enough, so anything that makes things simpler for me and my staff is welcomed with open arms. The latest Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin informs me that paracetamol [...]

Star health adviser or glorified shopkeeper? To the great British public, the pharmacist is still something of an enigma. C+D asks why the profession has such a public image problem [...]

What is a `typical' pharmacist like, and what does he or she want? Perhaps we are a bunch of nameless, faceless overworked people who couldn't care less. Is this what [...]

It's time for pharmacists to walk the walk, says C+D columnist Sandra Gidley 'The job spec of a pharmacist in 1976 is pretty much equivalent to the job spec of [...]

Numark's top brass ditch the desk job for a day's work in the dispensary of a busy Barnsley pharmacy Max Gosney An hour into his shift on the pharmacy floor [...]

Many pharmacists are not IT savvy and lack knowledge of everyday software, according to the RPSGB. The Society warned of a huge skills gap when it comes to filing CPD [...]

Fiona Salvage The Section 60 Order will allow the RPSGB to differentiate between poor professional performance and misconduct and will introduce a new option of suspension from the Register, Christine [...]

Contract Pharmacists sound `warning shot' to big pharma over losses Ailsa Colquhoun PSNC has negotiated a 0.9 per cent reduction in the clawback rate imposed by the government on pharmacists, [...]

Steve Webb for the Liberal Democrats and Andrew Murrison for the Conservatives moved a series of amendments to clarify questions surrounding the responsibility of pharmacists when the supervision rules are [...]

Pharmacists who wonder whether they've still got what it takes can now go on-line to get a confidential evaluation of their professional savvy using a tool developed by the National [...]

Linda Dodds, Denise Farmer, Clare Mackie and Elizabeth Mills, who were part of the working party which drew up the competencies which pharmacists will be required to demonstrate before conducting [...]

The Which? criticisms were: * Pharmacists failed to ask about other medication or warn about interactions when a researcher, pretending to be on oral contraceptives, requested St John's wort (five [...]

Pharmacy organisations are disappointed after a Consumer Association investigation found that pharmacy staff gave poor advice and failed to ask the right questions. Researchers made 84 visits to multiple and [...]

Pharmacists are qualified to answer health-related questions, according to 92% of 1,039 adult consumers in a survey reported in the latest AmerisourceBergen Index quarterly report. Sixty-four percent of those polled [...]

Starting next year, Medicare health plans that have achieved three, four, or five stars in the Medicare Star Rating system are in a good position to continue to serve their [...]

Exclusive survey: Health-system pharmacists are highly regarded by hospital administrators Evoking visions of the feminist slogan from the 1960s, 'You've come a long way, baby,' it appears that in 2001--in [...]

Walter Morrison, Ph.D., has been named executive director of the National Institute for Standards in Pharmacist Credentialing (NISPC). Professor emeritus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of [...]

American Druggist profiles the 50 pharmacists whose exceptional work in 1998 has made a lasting and positive impression on the profession Pharmacists have been ranked as America's most trusted professionals [...]

What now? It was 10:45 p.m. The temperature was still stifling hot. The golden streetlights haloed through the thick fog that covered Seawall Boulevard. Red and white lights spun inside [...]

Starting pay for a community pharmacist averages more than $90,000 a year, according to Brian Shepler, director of experiential learning in the school of pharmacy at Purdue University. 'Pharmacy graduates [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Affirming the drug store industry's oft-repeated mantra about the value of direct contact between patients and their pharmacists, a new, nationwide poll indicates that consumers remain strongly [...]

The life and business of pharmacist Herman Greenfield, who is the owner of Gary Drug on Charles Street, is discussed. He believes in prescribing good advice to his customers.

Pharmacists can make more outside the three biggest metro areas. (000s)* 1 Fayetteville $87.1 2 Greenville 87.0 3 Greensboro 86.3 4 Raleigh 86.2 5 Charlotte 85.4 6 Asheville 85.3 7 [...]

John F. Schlegel, who took charge earlier this month as president of the American Pharmaceutical Association, is known and respected among national pharmacy leaders and educators, thanks to his nine [...]

What appeared to be a meeting of the minds on the controversial continuing competency assessment of pharmacists exploded into a major confrontation last month after the National Association of Boards [...]

Acceptable, but could do better. That seems to be the message of the third annual Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Customer Satisfaction Survey Report. The majority of PBMs got fair-to-poor marks [...]

What a coincidence that the two articles should appear in the same issue of Drug Topics: the report of a wrongful death caused by a physician/pharmacist error, which resulted in [...]