The emergency contraceptive drug known as Plan B will likely be coming out from behind the pharmacy counter, a move the Canadian Association of Pharmacists is not happy about.
... cost of treatment. The study then went on to show how a brief educational chat with a pharmacist about inhaler technique and stickers on the medication can lead to improved asthma control in the ...
Professor of complementary medicine says pharmacists should inform patients buying homeopathic treatments that they are no more effective than sugar pills
SIENA, Italy, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- An Italian pharmacist has recreated a Chianti-based elixir from an 18th-century recipe found lodged behind a shelf in his apothecary shop.
Prince Edward Island pharmacists will soon be given the authority to write prescriptions for their customers.
Pharmacists in Newfoundland and Labrador are asking the provincial government for authority to extend drug prescriptions, on grounds it would improve patient care and save money.
... impact of clinical pharmacy services, defined as services that involve direct patient care by a clinical pharmacist. Unlike traditional pharmacy services, in which a pharmacist dispenses medications, ...
Keele University has developed a 'virtual patient' to help train the pharmacists of the future. Students in the Staffordshire-based university's School of Pharmacy interact with the computer-generated ...
B.C.'s pharmacists are not prepared to detect or deal with prescription drug fraud, according to a new study conducted by the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford.
... habit that increases the chance of accidentally taking the wrong medicine.
The pharmacists also look for over-the-counter medications and vitamins that could interact with the patients' prescription ...
Thinking "outside the medicine cabinet" is paying off in Australia, where a doctor-pharmacist partnership is reducing hospitalizations for heart failure -- one of the most expensive conditions to ...
... new medications, discontinuing current medications or increasing or decreasing dosage).
"A physician and pharmacist collaborative intervention achieved significantly better mean [average] blood ...
... multiple chronic illnesses can benefit from coordinated care provided by physicians as well as nurses, pharmacists and other health care providers, 60 percent of primary care physician practices in ...
... health-care professionals. Members of the CCC include the ACCP, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, Society of Hospital Medicine, and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
... 2,000 high-risk cardiac surgery patients and more than 100 cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists, pharmacists and coordinators from 19 Canadian centres. This publicly-funded collaborative trial was led ...
