Pharmacy teams once again are stepping up to fill gaps in care, address health equity, and ensure children and adolescents have access to COVID-19 vaccines as well as other vaccines.

Sonya Collins and Paria Sanaty Zadeh

There is an adage that says “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me.” It isn’t true.

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD

Barcode scanning medication containers during the dispensing process is an important way patients can be protected from errors.

Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, PA

Nate Hux, PharmD, is a pharmacist in Pickerington, OH, who owns two different pharmacies that are right next to each other. One is a traditional pharmacy that accepts commercial insurance, and the other is a self-pay pharmacy.

Johanna Taylor Katroscik, PharmD

A recent survey conducted by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) revealed several challenges that pharmacy technicians have faced in the wake of a global pandemic.

Lauren Walters, PharmD

Americans may be surprised to find out that the use of prescription medications for sleep disturbance has declined.

Loren Bonner

Updates from FDA

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Do apps really make everything better? It turns out this may not be the case for blood pressure (BP) devices connected to smartphone applications.

Loren Bonner

In August of 2022, FDA announced the approval of Auvelity, the first oral NMDA receptor antagonist approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) in adults.

Lauren Walters, PharmD

Ever since FDA amended the EUAs in late August 2022 for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to authorize bivalent formulations of the vaccines for use as a booster dose, patients have had questions.

Bella Blankenship, PharmD

Spirulina is a blue-green cyanobacterium that’s found and farmed in fresh and marine waters worldwide.

Mickie Cathers

The common cold, a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract, affects millions of Americans each year.

Mary Warner

Trending Topics in Health-System Pharmacy

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Pharmacists should be gearing up for changes to USP Chapter 797–Sterile Preparations. USP published proposed revisions to <797> in early September 2021 and welcomed feedback until March 2022.

Clarissa Chan, PharmD

“Your prescription requires prior authorization.” A statement heard far and wide across the health care system and one that pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are intimately familiar with.

Ariel L. Clark, PharmD

Hyperglycemia is a common occurrence in hospitalized patients whether they have diabetes or not.

Olivia C. Welter, PharmD

As the COVID-19 pandemic surges on, the public has seen the rise and fall of several promising therapeutic agents for COVID-19 outpatient treatment.

Corey Diamond, PharmD

Social determinants of health (SDOH) have been defined by WHO as “the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes.” Conditions in which people are born, work, and live have important influence on their health status and health inequities at the population level.

Lydia Bailey, PharmD, BCACP

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