We hear you! Your pharmacy workplace is stressed and stretched. You have rapidly growing concerns for patient safety. Still, you are there—every day—to care for your patients despite conditions that seem to be working against you.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) issued the following statement in response to plans and payers, including PBMs, setting the dispensing fee for new COVID‐19 oral antiviral therapies below pharmacies’ costs to dispense these lifesaving medications:

Nearly 80% of patients said they see pharmacists as an integral part of their health care team, according to a new survey from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

FDA is drawing attention to dental problems linked to buprenorphine-containing medications that are dissolved under the tongue or placed against the inside of the cheek to treat opioid use disorder and pain.