Inaugural grads of two pharmacy schools find jobs

Back in 2010, D’Youville College in Buffalo, NY, opened its pharmacy school and welcomed students into a new, $23 million building. The next year, Roosevelt University near Chicago joined the pharmacy school bandwagon and welcomed its first pharmacy students. With this month’s inaugural graduates from both programs, the real test of finding jobs began. » More

How is a pharmacy like a delicatessen?

This is not the deli, fellas. Prescription medicine is not pastrami. Encouraging the customer to watch the pharmacist’s every movement is counterproductive. It just slows the pharmacist down. » More

New Oral Anti-Coagulants
Find the latest articles and CME on emerging oral anticoagulant therapies to assist you in meeting the healthcare challenges associated with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. View video, read new articles, take CME and explore useful tools for your practice. Learn more.

Pharmacy tobacco sales and changing social norms

The topic of voluntary prohibition of tobacco is now being discussed in corporate boardrooms. The rest of us need to exert a greater awareness that cigarettes do not belong in any pharmacy, particularly not in pharmacy-clinics. » More

Pharmacists should promote poison control

Since pharmacists dispense potentially harmful medications, it is critical that we also impart information about poison control. Poison prevention in children is an important public health topic that pharmacists need to address. » More

Continuing Education

MTM essentials for hypertension—Part 2: Drug therapy considerations

This month's article is the fourth in a year-long CPE series, Medication Therapy Management Considerations for Adult Patients with Cardiovascular Disease. From February 2014 through January 2015, pharmacists can earn up to 24 hours of CPE credit with 12 monthly knowledge-based activities from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy and Drug Topics.

The goal of this month's activity is to discuss place in therapy of drug classes used to treat hypertension and review drug considerations of prescription antihypertensive medications and herbal supplements that are relevant to medications therapy management of hypertension.

To read and print the article with TEST QUESTIONS, click here. To proceed to the online exams and earn up to 2 CPE credits, click here to log in.

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