The pharmacist is a critical member of the care team to help manage patients on treatment and contain costs of cancer care, said Kirollos S. Hanna, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP, FACCC, director of pharmacy, ...

Lest anyone think that pharmacists do little more than dispense prescriptions, a new study from Columbia University dispels the notion, and then some. Pharmacists will figure more centrally in ...

Join us at 11 a.m. CT (12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT) on Thursday, March 17, for a live hour-long chat on the changing role of your neighborhood pharmacist. The chat will be moderated by Chicago Tribune health ...

As hospitals look for ways to stem the opioid crisis, a survey of health-system pharmacy directors released today found that most large health systems have active stewardship programs to prevent the ...

Amid a worsening healthcare provider shortage, many people trust pharmacists to play a larger role in their care management, according to research findings released Jan. 11. Researchers from Columbia ...

Pharmacists’ role in administering vaccines — which was launched by a law passed in 2008 — really took hold following the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, which had people in some areas of the country lined up ...

The most obvious method of measuring compliance is self-reporting by the patient. This is a convenient and inexpensive method, since self-reporting can usually be done in the form of patient diaries, ...

When COVID-19 forced the shutdown of doctors’ offices across the country last spring, community pharmacies remained open — and pharmacists stepped up, taking on more patient counseling, immunizations ...

Panelists discuss how PBMs shape oncology access and stress the need for transparency to align financial control with ...