Author: Peter

All-day nausea in the first trimester certainly didn't help my compounding in the kitchen effort. I found myself feeling miserable and convinced that somehow I was being punished for loving food so much. These past few months, my go-to food has been similar to what you would find in a preschooler’s lunch bag: juice boxes, graham crackers, and fruit snacks.

The new data, expected to be released publicly late Thursday, show that acute care hospitals in the state recorded 821 serious reportable events (SREs) in 2014, a 9 percent increase from 2013 when they reported 753 SREs..... the numbers are "a positive indicator" that hospitals now do a better job at detecting and reporting errors, the newspaper reported.

Experts, politicians warn of privacy threats to MIDAS warehouse of Healthcare.gov consumer information. The alarming frequency of data breaches among health insurers has led some to wonder whether a massive data warehouse of Healthcare.gov customers' personal information is vulnerable to a cyberattack.

Nearly three in four Americans say the costs of prescription drugs are "unreasonable" — and most blame drugmakers for those prices, according to a poll released Tuesday. The survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 74 percent of those taking prescription drugs find the costs unreasonable, as do 72 percent of those not taking such drugs.

Heather Bonome, PharmD, director of Pharmacy Segment at URAC, discusses how accreditation programs can enhance health care overall. This video was recorded courtesy of Armada Health Care at the 2015 Armada Specialty Pharmacy Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada.

There’s good news for students in Washington State interested in both pharmacy and business. Washington State University is now offering students the opportunity to jointly pursue Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Business Administration degrees in 4 years.

When I was doing my professional rotations, the hospital outpatient pharmacy didn’t charge medical residents for prescriptions. This led to the unconscionable practice of male prescribers writing oral contraceptives for themselves and giving them to their wives and girlfriends. I viewed this as completely unethical, but since I was an intern and had no say in the matter, I begrudgingly went along with it.

A new bill introduced in the US Senate would permit pharmacists to dispense birth control pills without a prescription.

"The pharmacy is not just for ‘picking up prescriptions,’" explained Ray Bullman, Executive Vice President of the National Council on Patient Information and Education. "Consumers are often unaware of the many patient care services that pharmacists can provide to address appropriate medication use through medication therapy management, prevention, and wellness services such as immunizations and smoking cessation."

"I am delighted that Colleen Kim is the recipient of the Excellence in Public Health Pharmacy Practice Award," said Dr. Zvi Loewy, interim dean of the College. "Colleen has excelled at Touro College of Pharmacy in the didactic program as well as in our clinical program. Most notably, Colleen led and contributed to several key public health initiatives during her 4 years at Touro."