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06.14.2013
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA, has announced she is stepping down next month. A friend of our profession who backed the monumental U.S. Public Health Service pharmacy report to the Surgeon General with a landmark letter of support, VADM Benjamin will be missed in her role as...
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06.07.2013
There’s a great consumer article at Lifehacker that your patients, friends, family, and others might appreciate. If your pharmacy maintains a website and you can post info, this might not be a bad link to share.
We’re working hard on provider status for pharmacists, and soon, we’ll need consumer...
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06.05.2013
On June 4, I heard RADM Scott Giberson with the U.S. Public Health Service receive an award at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) 2013 Summer Meeting & Exhibition in Minneapolis. During his acceptance speech, he shared his “elevator speech” for promoting provider status...
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06.04.2013
We applaud and share in California pharmacists’ efforts on behalf of patient access to their services as the California state Senate approved its pharmacist provider status bill (SB 493) late last week, a significant step in becoming law. The legislation is now with the California State Assembly...
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05.31.2013
Pfizer recently decided to sell Viagra directly through Viagra.com and use one mail-service pharmacy to deliver the product in an effort to rein in the sale of counterfeit products from illegitimate online pharmacies. We share Pfizer’s commitment to protecting patients from the illegitimate supply...
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05.03.2013
APhA Academy Leaders: The Power & Promise of Pharmacy was the theme for the 2013 APhA Academies Leadership Meeting (ALM) as 50 leaders from APhA’s three Academies and the Board’s Strategic Directions Committee convened in Washington, DC, on April 26–28 for professional development, goal...
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04.30.2013
I commend to your reading an article, “The role of retail pharmacy in the new healthcare environment,” which was referred to me by Becky Snead at the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations. It is a positive article, very supportive of maximizing the role that pharmacists can play in our...
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04.29.2013
When former Speaker and Treasurer Bill Edwards passed away recently, APhA sent flowers on behalf of the Board and staff. I received the following thank-you note from Merri Edwards:
Thank you so much for your lovely flowers. Bill loved the profession of pharmacy and his association with APhA and...
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04.26.2013
Lots of good things get published by APhA. In fact, so many that it would be virtually impossible to read all of the content that our members, experts, and contributors create and that we publish. That’s especially true in these days of information overload. So just in case you missed the white...
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04.25.2013
I received confirmation from Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Executive Director Bill Ellis that the BPS Board on April 12 approved two new specialties for development, including the critical care pharmacy petition and the pediatric pharmacy petition.
The BPS announcement and pharmacist.com...
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