As an integral part of the health care system, pharmacists should be involved in reform decisions.
While male chauvinism may persist, men might have to give up the self-centered title of the "stronger sex"…at least when it comes to their health.
The debate over legalizing marijuana is ongoing despite support by respectable medical organizations for its legalization.
Some heartwarming stories have emerged from our newly launched social networking site, PharmQD, and they are especially timely during this holiday season.
Ultimately, it is the pharmacist's responsibility to check all prescriptions filled, and the consequences of not performing due diligence could be severe.
Those who are responsible for formulating health care policy should understand that an ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure.
The dissemination of information in virtually every form via e-mail is
mind-boggling. But as
popular as e-mail has become, it is also serving up a fair share of
spam and other viscious messages that generally are untrue, are
doctored, or otherwise cannot be verified.
While there is no question that technology has reshaped the profession of pharmacy on many levels, pharmacists are sometimes challenged by the overload of information.
The FDA's position seems to cast aspersions on the entire compounding community.
PharmQD, a new online networking and informational tool, offers something for everyone
aligned professionally to pharmacy.
In the midst of the H1N! scare, we can all be thankful is that pharmacists will continue to mitigate
the fear by their thoughtful and insightful
counseling efforts.
An incredible thing is taking place in this country: A politician is
taking the nation's pulse on health care by actually touching base with
regular citizens and asking them their opinions.
While there is no question that our
health care system needs an overhaul, importing drugs from Canada is
not the answer.
If pharmacists are going to play an active role in getting this
country's health care system back on track, they need the support of
the people who hire them.
Pharmacists working in hospitals are largely unseen by patients, but they are no
less important than community pharmacists in elevating the quality of health
care.
It's been nearly 60 years since George Orwell wrote his prophetic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four , which coined the idiomatic term Big Brother as a euphemistic way of describing an invasion of our privacy.
W hat could Domino's Pizza and pharmacy possibly have in common? Well, nothing I'm aware of, but Save Mart Supermarkets and Lucky stores in California have apparently ripped a page right out of Domino's marketing playbook by announcing one of the most thoughtless pharmacy marketing campaigns to reach my desk, the "19-Minute Promise.
Smoking is a tough habit to break; some may even say it is an addiction.
When the great English poet Alexander Pope wrote, "To err is human, to forgive divine," I don't think he was referring to the legal sharks that feed off the errors made by health care professionals.
I like New Jersey.
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