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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death in America, but the disease rates for African-Americans are especially high.

Brian Beach, RPh of the Kelley-Ross Pharmacy Group in Seattle, Washington was named the winner of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) 2015 Prescription Drug Safety Award.

You don't have to be an artist or ad man to come up with an idea, paint a picture, and capture someone's attention.

Joe Moose, RPh, co-owner of Moose Pharmacy and its multiple locations in and around Concord, N.C., has been named the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) 2015 Willard B. Simmons Independent Pharmacist of the Year.

Andi Lane Clark, PharmD, Director of Clinical Field Services at Rite Aid, outlines several successful patient counseling techniques with respect to improved medication adherence.

Upsher-Smith Laboratories was honored today with the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) 2015 Corporate Recognition Award.

Patients with concomitant atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) face worse symptoms, poorer prognoses, and different treatment responses than those with either condition alone.

Andi Lane Clark, PharmD, Director of Clinical Field Services at Rite Aid, discusses how proper medication adherence habits allow patients to better manage their chronic conditions.

The FDA and pharmaceutical companies together initiated several noteworthy product recalls and market withdrawals in the last few months.

Henry Cohen of Woodmere, New York, was recently named dean of the Touro College of Pharmacy (TCOP).

ASHP Midyear is a great opportunity to learn about the benefits of completing a pharmacy residency.

Now that electronic prescribing of controlled substances is permitted in all US states, pharmacists can expect e-prescriptions to gain momentum.

Nick Gentile, Director of State Grassroots Advocacy and Political Action for ASHP, discusses the current status of provider status movements on the state level.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is applauding the accomplishments of pharmacists as the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) nears the 20th anniversary of its pharmacy-based immunization delivery certificate training program.

US pharmacists moving abroad, beware. You may have to take a pay cut, considering that pharmacists in the United States tend to receive higher salaries than their counterparts in other countries.

If cannabis is going to be viewed as a medication, then medically speaking under the law of the land, the medication can only be legally dispensed by pharmacists.

The first college in the country to teach pharmacy produces higher earners than the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school in the same state.

Eli Lilly and Company has announced plans to add 30,000 square feet and approximately 50 new jobs to its research and development presence at the Alexandria Center for Life Science.

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The recent school shooting in Oregon has sparked a familiar conversation about mental illness in the United States.

The FDA is considering expanding the use for a drug currently indicated as a chronic hepatitis C (HCV) treatment.

As you celebrate American Pharmacists Month, take a moment to reconnect with your mentor.

The increasing roles that pharmacists and their national associations are taking in mental health care are illustrated in a new document from the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). "Focus on mental health: The contribution of the pharmacist" is to be published tomorrow on World Mental Health Day.

St. Louis College of Pharmacy is one of the oldest and largest pharmacy schools in the country.

A new Avalere Health study of the nation's growing long term care pharmacy sector - the most detailed analysis since Medicare Part D was implemented in 2006 - finds LTC pharmacies playing a greater role in seniors' clinical care as new health payment and delivery models such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), bundled payments and value-based purchasing proliferate amid a rapidly changing healthcare marketplace

AbbVie is launching Voices of HS, a new global campaign to increase awareness and support for people who have hidradenitis suppurativa.

No OTC products for sale and few customers coming in with prescriptions to fill were 2 reasons why a pharmacy in California seemed suspicious.

The FDA's Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) will no longer require final printed labeling to approve Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs).

AkzoNobel's work in the area of product stewardship has been recognized with the 2015 European Responsible Care Award from the European Chemicals Industry Association.

Over my nearly 3 decades of pharmacy practice, I have worked with some of the greatest pharmacists never known.