Getting paid for patient care services has not been an easy road for pharmacists, but states continue to make progress, according to Allie Jo Shipman, PharmD, director of state policy at the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations.

Loren Bonner

The important question of whether a pharmacist may legally decline to honor a scientifically unsupportable prescription continues to be addressed by courts.

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD

French pharmaceutical company HRA Pharma has applied for FDA approval of what could be the first OTC oral contraceptive in the United States.

Sonya Collins

Most drugs have a labeled shelf life of about one to five years. Research shows, however, that these drugs are still safe and effective for decades beyond their expiration date.

Sonya Collins

A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy from July 2022 confirms that deprescribing anticholinergic medications in older adults—either by discontinuing or reducing the dosing—ultimately allows for a better chance of finding a difference in clinical outcomes.

Clarissa Chan, PharmD

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Psychedelics are making a comeback…but not in the way you might think. Recently, psychedelic therapeutics have made their way into mainstream media.

Johanna Taylor Katroscik, PharmD

Could genetic testing be used to reduce the trial and error that patients with depression—especially major depressive disorder—so often come up against when finding the right medication for treatment?

Loren Bonner

For years, a monkeypox pandemic has been waiting to happen. For starters, the number of cases in central Africa has grown from only a few cases in the 1980s and 1990s to thousands in the past couple of years.

Clarissa Chan, PharmD

COVID-19 may have pushed the common cold out of the limelight, but we’re about to enter a new cold season. While there is a vaccine for COVID-19, there is no vaccine or cure for the common cold.

Mickie Cathers

On August 16, 2022, FDA finalized a historic rule enabling OTC access to hearing aids.

Mary Warner

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Pharmacist-provided pharmacogenomic counseling has grown in popularity as genetic testing has increased in availability. However, there remains no clear consensus on how to properly educate patients on their results.

Ariel L. Clark, PharmD

Each year, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Foundation releases the Pharmacy Forecast, which looks ahead at large-scale trends that may impact the profession over the course of several years.

Olivia C. Welter, PharmD

Post–COVID-19 conditions (better known as long COVID) have taken clinicians by surprise.

Corey Diamond, PharmD

In the United States, nearly one in three outpatient pediatric antibiotic prescriptions is inappropriate.

Sonya Collins

According to the Lown Institute, 750 older adults age 65 and older living in the United States are hospitalized every day due to serious adverse effects from one or more of their medications.

Briana L. Skalski-Gallagher, PharmD

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