Author: Peter

What this Study Adds

• Our model systematically categorized components of pharmacist intervention in care transition programs. Study heterogeneity enabled a best evidence synthesis to elucidate effective components.
• This review revealed that multifaceted programs should combine medication reconciliation with active patient counseling and a clinical medication review. Care continuity can be secured by integrating pharmacists across settings and providing them with patients’ clinical background.
• Collaborating with other health care professionals is crucial to increase the effectiveness of pharmacist intervention.

It finally seems as if the pharmacy birth control wars are behind us, which I hope will prove that medication adherence isn't the type of rocket-science problem requiring academic studies by professors pondering how to get people to take their medicine. No, that wasn't an accidental grafting of two different sentences you just read. Stick with me, and by the end of the column you'll understand.

chief of Thailand's Government Pharmaceutical Office said legislation afoot that would lead to a halt of making state hospitals spend at least 60% of their medicine budgets on its products is a bad idea on costs alone--but also because the state manufacturer lacks in-house marketing and sales expertise…Instead, …GPO executive managing director…wants at least a 5 year phase-in period...

sixth annual Next-Generation Pharmacist® awards gala to celebrate the 2015 finalists...This year’s finalists and winners epitomize the next generation of pharmacy; each is practicing at the top of their profession and inspiring progress...

• Civic Leader - George Kress, RPh, AAHIVP, Walgreens Co.
• Entrepreneur - Phillip LaFoy, DPh, Blount Discount Pharmacy, Inc.
• Future Pharmacist - Sgt. 1st Class Ryan Lampien, University of Incarnate Word
• Health-System Pharmacist - Michael Evans, B.S., RPh, Geisinger Health System
• Lifetime Leadership - William Sheridan, RPh, The Kroger Co.
• Military Pharmacist - Maj. David Jarnot, BSC, BCACP, United States Air Force
• Patient Care Provider - Jack Dunn, RPh, Jasper Drugs
• Rising Star - Evan Schnur, PharmD, Walmart
• Specialty Pharmacist - Chris Williams, PharmD, Manatee County Government
• Technician - Verender Gail Brown, B.S., RPhT, CPhT, School District of Osceola County
• Technology Innovator - David Medvedeff, PharmD, MBA., VUCA Health

From today the websites of the British Pharmacopeia, pharmacopoeia.co.uk and pharmacopoeia.com (previously pharmacopoeia.gov.uk) will be brought together into one integrated, new look website www.pharmacopoeia.com. The British Pharmacopoeia is the official collection of standards for UK medicinal products and pharmaceutical substances. Produced by the British Pharmacopoeia Commission Secretariat of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, the BP makes an important contribution to public health by setting publicly available standards for the quality of medicines.

Following the recent Hard Summer music festival marked by the suspected overdose deaths of two young women, several emergency room doctors are calling for an end to large raves in Los Angeles County...Here’s some questions and answers to explain why several physicians think electronic dance music festivals are a risk to public health.

sunny side (up) to the major avian flu outbreak that is squeezing the nation's egg supply,..You'll still be able to get your flu vaccine this fall,.."Eggs used to manufacture FluMist/Fluenz are not affected by the egg shortage." …eggs used to produce those vaccines come from "specific pathogen-free chickens which are housed in entirely separate sites and facilities from chickens used for the food supply,"....

China has moved quickly to further scrap a 15% markup on state-run hospital drug sales, this time targeting all county-level public hospitals by the end of October,…. comprehensive healthcare reform plan centered on the nation's public hospital system, including seeking more private hospitals and clinics and changes to the entire medical system on pay and subsidies.

How can girls with psoriasis have fun? '80s icon Cyndi Lauper says she knows--and she has teamed up with Novartis to talk about … its new psoriasis med Cosentyx (secukinumab) as other next-gen rivals near the market. The "I'm PsO Ready" campaign aims to highlight the "physical, emotional and social challenges" of the skin disease..

AstraZeneca (MedImmune) has clinched its third deal in less than a week to bolster it…cancer drug pipeline by signing up rights to an experimental immune system-boosting medicine from Inovio Pharmaceuticals… will get $27.5 million upfront and potential future payments of up to $700 million, depending on the success of its INO-3112 immunotherapy, which targets cancers caused by human papillomavirus...