From the Desk of the CEO

Over the past couple of years, one of the persistent safety concerns related to medication safety was the growing threat of substandard and falsified drugs.

Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, PA

Many hospitalized patients are patient recipients of care as they allow the hospital staff to decide what treatment to provide. Yet when health care professionals are admitted to a hospital, they may impatiently request that a specific treatment be provided for a condition that they have self-diagnosed.

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD

Pharmacy services—like everything else—changed during the COVID-19 pandemic as patients used telehealth not only for physician visits, but for whatever needs they would normally go to their local pharmacy to meet.

Kevin Willmann

This year, pharmacists in Michigan joined the ranks of birth control prescribers. Thirty-five U.S. states and Washington, DC, have granted this authority to their pharmacists.

Sonya Collins

Today’s community pharmacists are experiencing a shift in the type of care they are being asked to provide. Far from simply dispensing medications, pharmacists have become key players in a growing trend toward community-based health care, addressing broader patient needs, according to a Wolters Kluwer Pharmacy Next consumer survey.

Elizabeth Briand