Health experts are calling this year’s flu season one of the most important. For pharmacists, the call to action has never been more apparent. 

Loren Bonner

Pharmacists got support from high places in a new resource aimed at creating comprehensive strategies to treat, control, and prevent hypertension (HTN).

Rachel Balick

An inadvertent error that violates practice standards is not a crime. This is a good thing.

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD

When a patient recently visited a hospital clinic, a practitioner was reconciling external medication information available in the patient’s electronic health record (EHR) via medication history data from Surescripts.

Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, PA

Medication therapy management, self-care recommendations, point-of-care testing, and administration of vaccinations are some of the critical contributions community pharmacists have made during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent report featured in CDC’s journal Preventing Chronic DiseasePreventing Chronic DiseasePreventing Chronic Disease.

Maria G. Tanzi, PharmDMaria G. Tanzi, PharmD

In August, FDA granted 23andMe clearance for its CYP2C19 pharmacogenetics report on clopidogrel and citalopram, allowing the company to offer more direct-to-consumer pharmacogenetics reports to patients.

Loren Bonner

Medical Arts Pharmacy in Fayetteville, AR, is the only local provider in the area offering smoking cessation counseling and support to patients.

Loren Bonner

They lower prices and increase access for patients. That’s good. They take precious time to process. That’s bad.

Rachel Balick

Updates from FDA

The Associated Press reported on October 14 that a survey it conducted with the NORC at the University of Chicago showed that just 22% of Black respondents said they plan to get the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available.

Rachel Balick

As we do our best to navigate the unprecedented strain COVID-19 has imposed worldwide, many people are unaware of the growing public health issue of insomnia.

Clarissa Chan, PharmD

Additional evidence from randomized controlled trials and a metaanalysis further support the role of systemic corticosteroids in the treatment of patients with severe COVID-19 infection, with the World Health Organization (WHO) providing a strong recommendation for their use in patients with severe and critical infections.

Maria G. Tanzi, PharmD

Many people experience colds during the fall. A cold is a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract and is one of the top ve diagnosed conditions in the United States.

Daniel L. Krinsky, RPh, MS

Honey may be a better treatment for upper respiratory tract infections than many common remedies, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published online in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine on August 18.

Aina Abell

Trending Topics in Health-System Pharmacy

FDA approved the first new I.V. opioid in decades.

Joey Sweeney, PharmD, BCPS

The need for increasing the reliability and effectiveness of home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) has stimulated the development of more advanced blood pressure monitoring strategies, particularly in the sphere of team-based care and telehealth.

Corey Diamond, PharmD

With the advent of the release of a working vaccine for COVID-19 on the horizon, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), has assumed a strong stance on how the logistics of an inevitable national vaccine administration operation should proceed.

Corey Diamond, PharmD

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meets three times each year where immunization recommendations are reviewed, voted upon, and approved.

Miranda Wilhelm, PharmD

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Patient “Matt” came into Brewster Family Pharmacy in rural Brewster, OH, to pick up his prescriptions.

Sonya Collins