Funded in part by the Affordable Care Act, grants focus on preventing tobacco use, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and s...

A team of specialized officers from the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is being prepared to deploy to manag...

The “Purple Book” lists biological products, including any biosimilar and interchangeable biological products licensed by...

We applaud CVS Health for becoming tobacco-free and ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at its 7,700 CVS/ph...

Boston, Mass.  – Two industry retailers were honored for their political advocacy and grassroots support last evening...

House vote expected today on bipartisan, pro-patient bill to provide coordinated approach in combating prescription drug a...

AUDIENCE : Pharmacy, Neurology, Pain Management, Rheumatology ISSUE : American Health Packaging (AHP) voluntaril...

As reported in the  Federal Register  on July 2, 2014, the DEA is rescheduling tramadol as a Schedule IV c...

Funding is from the Affordable Care Act and the Secretary’s Minority AIDS Initiative   HHS Secre...

NACDS touts "Better Care, Lower Cost Act," urges enhanced medication therapy management eligibility and advancement of pro...

ONC and Million Hearts challenge looks to develop new clinical decision support tools In an effort to help clinical...

Consumers Worldwide Will Soon Have New Tool for Finding Safe Internet Pharmacies As the registry operator of the ne...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 30, 2014 – NEW YORK – Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) is voluntarily recall...

APhA joined an open letter to Congress expressing "unified support" for giving Medicare patients more convenient access to...

A statement from Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Director and Deputy Assistant Secretary fo...

New AHRQ report simultaneously published in the Annals of Internal Medicine In a new Agency for Healthcare Research...

WASHINGTON ― The Internal Revenue Service today announced the adoption of a " Taxpayer Bill of Rights " that will be...

I n the emergency department at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, pharmacists who specialize in emergency medicine rev...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently updated a health advisory, recommending an inactivated poliovirus...

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released proposed rules that would place additional tobacco products, including l...

The Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday announced the availability of up to $300 million under the Affor...

Chinese Community Health Plan, Humana and Four Kaiser Permanente Regions Achieve 5-Star Medication Use and Safety Ratings...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed marketing of the first test that can help determine if a specific typ...

Starting July 2014 , Medicaid and Primary Care Network (PCN) members will start receiving a new wallet-sized p...

H ealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced new delivery system reform efforts made possible b...

NABP and the Anti-Diversion Industry Working Group (ADIWG), a consortium of pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributor...

Reforms to Medicare regulations identified as unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome on hospitals and other he...

by Whitney Johnston and Kelsee Geurts -   On February 18th, 2014 I sat across a table from a middle-aged...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it required the manufacturer of the sleep drug Lunesta (eszopiclon...

About half of all Americans reported taking one or more prescription drugs in the past 30 days during 2007-2010, and 1-in-...

Nearly 800,000 pounds of unneeded prescription medications were properly disposed of during the April 26, 2014, Drug...

A recall has been issued for the Baxter Healthcare Corporation Sigma Spectrum Infusion Pumps with Master Drug Library Mo...

A recall has been issued for Hospira Inc., Abbott Acclaim Infusion Pumps and Hospira Acclaim Encore Infusion Pumps.  Hospi...

PTCB has changed the way we assign certification expiration dates to pharmacy technicians when they become c...

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