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HHS Health Data Initiative and the Health Datapalooza

pharmacy — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:51:34 +0000

This year’s Health Datapalooza will be held on June 5-6, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. The event will feature exciting new products, services, applications, and features based on open source health data. Entrepreneurs across the country are submitting their innovations to be judged by panels comprised of health care professionals, community leaders, [...]

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OTC Morning After Pill mired in ongoing controversy

pharmacy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:09:36 +0000

Amid a storm of controversy swirling around hot button political issues like abortion, personhood, birth control, and sex education in schools, RU486 – a contraceptive sold as Plan B One-Step, Ella, and Next Choice – was an understandable target. The contraceptive must be taken within 72 hours after sex to prevent conception, but it cannot [...]

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Locum Tenens: Balancing Parenting and Travel

pharmacy — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:00:31 +0000

Modern life is busy. There are so many demands on a working parent’s time that sometimes it seems as if there is no time to take a breath. Locum tenens pharmacists have an even harder time finding a balance between work and home. But like parents in other professions that require travel, it’s a matter [...]

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Disposing of Unused Medications: Are You Educating Your Customers?

pharmacy — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:00:10 +0000

Many pharmacies offer a disposal service for unused medications, but the reality is that average customers don’t know about it –and don’t know to ask. As pharmacists, it is our business to offer information, because frankly, who else will? What do most people do with unused medications? For the majority of us, the answer is [...]

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Electronic Prescriptions

pharmacy — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:00:39 +0000

Physicians have notoriously bad handwriting. It can be so bad that it detrimental to patients at times, thus the advent of electronic prescriptions seems at first glance to be a boon in the health field. Electronic prescriptions allow doctors to use their handheld computers, or any computer in the office, to use a drop down [...]

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Doctors’ Handwriting: A Pharmacist’s Nightmare

pharmacy — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:00:36 +0000

One of the biggest fears of any pharmacist is filling a prescription improperly. Getting the wrong medication, the wrong dosage, or the wrong frequency could all potentially be life threatening mistakes. The margin for error in the field of pharmaceuticals is quite small. Between drug allergies, drug interactions, and dispensing medications that are harmful to [...]

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4 National Pharmacist Associations

pharmacy — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:00:24 +0000

As a pharmacist you will most likely be inundated with offers to join various local, state, and national organizations targeted at your profession. Joining one, or more, is a great way to expand your connections and get current information related to your field. The following four national pharmacist associations each have something special to offer [...]

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Plan B Controversy Continues in Washington

pharmacy — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:26:56 +0000

Since its release, the Plan B emergency contraception pill has created controversy among pharmacists. For some pharmacists, religious beliefs about this form of contraception conflict with the requirements that they make the pill available to anyone with a prescription. In 2007, the Washington State Pharmacy Board issued a ruling that required all pharmacies to dispense [...]

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Plan B Controversy Continues in Washington

pharmacy — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:26:56 +0000

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Heading back to where I started

Cyrus — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:31:40 +0000

The advantage of being a traveling pharmacist is the ability to make your own schedule. I think the last time I actually took a personal vacation was over a year ago. Of course, it was my own set design and not because I wasn’t allowed to take a vacation. Of all places I choose to [...]

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