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FDA orders boxed warning for smoking cessation drugs
Drug Topics E-News The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it is requiring manufacturers to put a boxed warning on the prescribing information for the smoking cessation drugs Chantix and Zyban.The warning will highlight...
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NACDS foundation announces new president
Drug Topics E-News The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation has announced that Edith A.Rosato, RPh, IOM, was elected president. Rosato will oversee NACDS Foundation initiatives, including scholarships for...
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Enhanced labels focus on consumer safety (Web Extra)
_ Enhanced labels focus on consumer safety (Web Extra).
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Letters: July 2009
'I remember when the pharmacist was a highly respected member of the community and people knew that the pharmacist was well educated.' 'Get some laws passed to limit the encroachment of others on our profession, from nurses to technicians.' ...
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Going green
Leesburg Pharmacy, Leesburgh, Va.: Recycles stock bottles and prescription vials.Takes back unused and expired medications and destroys them through a waste-to-energy facility. Good Day Pharmacy chain, Colo.: Recycles drug bottles,...
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Pharmacists partner for diabetes care in Health Across America
As part of the campaign, pharmacists will provide free diabetes screenings in cities across the country.Erik Chopin (center), winner of Season Three of 'The Biggest Loser,' recently joined executives from Novo Nordisk, Bayer, and Health...
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CMS drives MTM expansion
In 2008, pharmacy industry associations led by APhA and NACDS published 'Medication Therapy Management in Pharmacy Practice: Core Elements of an MTM Service Model Version 2.0,' which sought to align with CMS objectives for MTM programs.A...
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Hospital pharmacies fight medication errors with technology
Health-information and CPOE systems may provide key tools in the war against medication errors, along with drug-dispensing and intersystem technologies.While it is not known yet whether these technologies are helping to reduce medication...
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Drug-eluting stents make a comeback
Introduced in 2003, drug-eluting stents (DES) represented the third revolution in interventional cardiology, after balloon angioplasty and bare-metal stents.Boston Scientific's paclitaxel-eluting Taxus stent achieved more sales in its...
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Medication errors: What to do about look-alike/sound-alike drug names (Viewpoint)
Between 2003 and 2006, approximately 26,000 look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) errors were reported to the Medication Error Reporting Program.These reports contained 1,470 unique drug names, including those of the top 10 drugs sold by volume...
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