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May 31, 2013
Pfizer recently decided to sell Viagra directly through Viagra.com and use one mail-service pharmacy to deliver the product in an effort to rein in the sale of counterfeit products from illegitimate online pharmacies. We share Pfizer’s commitment to protecting patients from the illegitimate supply…
May 3, 2013
APhA Academy Leaders: The Power & Promise of Pharmacy was the theme for the 2013 APhA Academies Leadership Meeting (ALM) as 50 leaders from APhA’s three Academies and the Board’s Strategic Directions Committee convened in Washington, DC, on April 26–28 for professional development, goal…
April 30, 2013
I commend to your reading an article, “The role of retail pharmacy in the new healthcare environment,” which was referred to me by Becky Snead at the National Alliance of State Pharmacy Associations. It is a positive article, very supportive of maximizing the role that pharmacists can play in our…
April 29, 2013
When former Speaker and Treasurer Bill Edwards passed away recently, APhA sent flowers on behalf of the Board and staff. I received the following thank-you note from Merri Edwards:
Thank you so much for your lovely flowers. Bill loved the profession of pharmacy and his association with APhA and all…
April 26, 2013
Lots of good things get published by APhA. In fact, so many that it would be virtually impossible to read all of the content that our members, experts, and contributors create and that we publish. That’s especially true in these days of information overload. So just in case you missed the white…
April 25, 2013
I received confirmation from Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Executive Director Bill Ellis that the BPS Board on April 12 approved two new specialties for development, including the critical care pharmacy petition and the pediatric pharmacy petition.
The BPS announcement and pharmacist.com news…
March 28, 2013
We know our medications! Pharmacists need to be part of any electronic health record (EHR) system in which our patients’ records are stored, so we can know our patients better.
I recently read the words of William Osler, MD, who wrote in an 1892 textbook, The Principles and Practice of Medicine,…
March 25, 2013
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article on the “10 Things Drugstores Won’t Tell You.” We’ve all come to expect, whether it’s this article or another, that the consumer media will often exaggerate risks.
Information a publication displays may be presented with sensationalized half-…
March 21, 2013
A March 20 Medscape Medical News article, which covered an education session at the 2013 APhA Annual Meeting & Exposition, led with this headline: “Pharmacists Reach Patients With Illustrations, Less Jargon.” Not only was the approach novel, by program presenter Bik Wai Tai, PharmD, but the…
February 1, 2013
We appreciate the support from comments generated from inside and outside the profession regarding APhA’s recent announcement of our commitment to attaining “provider status.” We applaud the work of other groups in various stages of support and participation in this profession-wide initiative.
On…