Recently, paroxetine 20 mg tablets were found in a prescription bottle along with the prescribed promethazine 25 mg tablets. Upon investigation, it was determined that multiple bottles of paroxetine had been added to the automated dispensing technology’s (e.g., vialdispensing robot) cell containing promethazine 25 mg.

Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, PA

In the July 2023 issue of Pharmacy Today, I summarized a pharmacy case from the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court ruled that the knowledge requirement in the federal False Claims Act (FCA) refers to “actual knowledge and subjective beliefs—not to what an objectively reasonable person may have known and believed.”

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD

During the fall of 2023, pharmacy personnel staged walkouts at Walgreens and CVS stores citing unhealthy and unjust working conditions that put patient safety at risk.

Mickie Cathers

Pharmacists are an accessible point of contact for patients to discuss their health needs, and a study published September 13, 2023, in JAPhA suggested that pharmacists may be key health care professionals in the growing mental health crisis.

Ronald Levinson III, PharmD

Every day seems to bring with it another new use for ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI)–driven chatbot created by OpenAI.

Elizabeth Briand

Patients with diabetes have been using devices such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors for many years, but automated insulin delivery (AID) technologies appear to be the next big tool in the progression of diabetes technology.

Olivia C. Welter, PharmD

Corena Hughes, a 45-year-old veterinary technician, weighed in at 215 pounds when she decided she had to try something different.

Sonya Collins

Hospitals can be held liable for causing harm to patients either due to the negligence of employed health care professionals (indirect liability) or for institutional negligence (direct liability).

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD

Pharmacies are struggling—both the independents and the chains. The ACT Pharmacy Collaborative, a partnership with CPESN and pharmacy academia, reported closures of 244 pharmacies including independents and chains in 48 states in just the first 6 weeks of 2024.

Sonya Collins