OptumRx and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) have teamed up to launch a new educational initiative for students in grades 8-12 to spark interest in the pharmacy field.
Six central Alabama hospitals dispensed dangerous medications to patients following a careless pharmaceutical mistake. Nineteen patients received amino acid solution prepared by Meds IV, a compounding pharmacy in Birmingham. Nine of those patients died.
With the huge numbers of baby boomers rapidly aging and becoming more dependent on medications, drug shortages are reaching national crisis stage. Medicines in short supply include cancer treatments, pain medications, and anesthesia drugs, along with other lifesaving and critical drugs. The need has increased dramatically in the last five years, but production has not […]
A recent study by the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati, published online in the Journal of Pediatrics, cites an alarming increase in the number of children under five years of age poisoned at home by accidentally ingesting medications. Approximately 95% of those poisonings were the result of children taking medicines […]
Everybody has pain. In hard numbers, about 75 million American suffer from chronic pain, including epidemic proportions of people with “invisible” causes, like fibromyalgia, lupus, or Crohn’s disease. People with pain, especially those without a visible cause, often face skepticism, derision, and exasperation from families tired of hearing excuses. It’s difficult for other people to […]
We are living in extraordinary times. For the first time in decades, people are standing up all over the U.S. to take a stand for what they believe in. For the first time, we have a medium at hand where anyone can be heard, and groups of like-minded individuals can seek each other out, join […]
There have been a spate of recalls this year, including ground turkey – twice – alfalfa sprouts, papayas, bologna, hazelnuts, and, most recently, cantaloupes. Wait…cantaloupes? It sounds a little reminiscent of “The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.” How could an innocuous, non-exotic fruit like cantaloupe be deadly? But on two separate occasions this year, there […]
Beginning in 2008, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield teamed up with Kroger pharmacies to launch a program aimed at helping 845 Cincinnati and the Kroger employees learn to manage diabetes and hypertension. The employees received individual attention via one-on-one meetings with Kroger pharmacists specially trained to address their needs. The results were very promising.
