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August 7, 2012
As a follow-up to my earlier entry, I’m sorry to share with you that Ton Hoek, General Secretary of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), passed away on July 28 at his home in Huizen, the Netherlands. My APhA predecessor John Gans and I had visited him the week before. The FIP website…
August 1, 2012
Pharmacists have a new home at their old, familiar address. http://www.pharmacist.com was torn down and rebuilt from the "ground" up with a new structure and revised content. Our goals were to create a more useful, streamlined and elegant experience for users while delivering complex content,…
July 26, 2012
We are in regular communication with HHS, CMS, and the various groups within. Their campaign to prevent a million heart attacks is still under way and looking for your support. We’ve learned that Million Hearts has 7,500 pledges—2,500 shy of its goal of 10,000. Of those, 537 pledges (see state list…
July 25, 2012
We learned last night that Kathy Johnson, William A. Heeres and Josephine A. Heeres Professor in Community Pharmacy and Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs and Outcomes Sciences at the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, passed away yesterday after a fall during a vacation in France.…
July 20, 2012
On my flight home from Holland, I’m reflecting on 2 days spent visiting my friend and colleague Ton Hoek, General Secretary of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), to participate in his decoration ceremony.
Joining me from the United States was my APhA predecessor John Gans. Ton has…
July 6, 2012
I can appreciate how many practicing pharmacists may not appreciate what their national and state pharmacy associations do for them. It wasn’t that long ago that I was filling 300 to 400 a day and barely getting a chance to look up, let alone provide the kind of advanced services I knew were…
June 20, 2012
A policy paper just published by the AARP Public Policy Institute, Medicare Part D’s Medication Therapy Management: Shifting from Neutral to Drive, by N. Lee Rucker, MSPH, is a must read for every pharmacist who believes our patient care services are valuable.
Importantly, it should also be read by…
June 11, 2012
As I noted in an earlier blog post, Judy Shinogle, with whom I had the privilege to work more than 20 years ago at APhA, died in a car accident on May 20. Judy’s obituary has been published, and her funeral Mass was held on June 4 in Wichita, KS.
Our tight-knit pharmacy community is reeling from…
June 11, 2012
On May 7, APhA submitted comments to FDA on the concept of certain OTC products being available through conditions of safe use (OTC+ for short). This served as follow-up to my testimony to FDA in March.
Our letter answers the many questions on which FDA was seeking feedback. We again focused on the…
May 22, 2012
I recently received an invitation to attend a meeting on hospital pharmacy in Mexico. While I am not able to attend, I thought I would share it with you.
The meeting is the Second National Congress on Hospital Pharmacists and is sponsored by the Mexican Association of Hospital Pharmacists. It will…