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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.

Pharmacists have many opportunities for collaborating with nurse practitioners and physician assistants on managing chronic and acute conditions commonly seen in the retail health practice setting… 8 clinically relevant areas, experts detailed the following opportunities where pharmacists can collaborate with clinicians...

1. Optimal collaborative care strategies for COPD
2. Role of collaborative care in allergic rhinitis
3. Collaborative approaches to asthma management
4. Recommendations to improve vaccinations
5. Opportunities for collaborative care for acne
6. Appropriate management of URTIs
7. Trends in T2DM collaborative care
8. Optimized collaborative care strategies for obesity

Ashley Talamo, Publisher: Pharmacy Times...(PTNN) This weekly video program highlights the latest in pharmacy news, product news, and more. (video)

Many pharmacists dedicate themselves to improving the health of their patients and communities, but some answer an additional call: to provide their skills and knowledge in service to the military.

Podcast interview with..David G. Miller, RPh, International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists Executive Vice President, and Jay McEniry, Executive Director, Patients and Physicians for Rx Access...topic is Tricare, and the current issues facing compounding pharmacists, and most importantly, the patients they serve.

We continue series on fellowships with a look at a newer service provided by the Industry Pharmacists Organization , , we discuss FellowMatch, …match program that focuses on industry-based fellowships for recent pharmacy graduates. James Alexander, executive director and founder…

Diabetes costs are rising at a baffling rate... costs just increase.

Here are some notable trends

• Costs rose 150 percent for six popular, brand-name diabetes drugs in the past five years. Two of these drugs rose in price more than 250 percent.
• In 2012, the cost of treating diabetes was $245 billion.
• The spend on insulin and other diabetes medications is projected to rise 18.3 percent over the next three years – a rate that’s 60 times greater than the income growth rate of 0.3 percent across all households.

Recent actions in support of pharmacy by physician-dominated professional societies signal an increased awareness of the importance of pharmacists on patient care teams—and some pharmacists say those actions could boost provider status efforts.

California women who have long had to schedule a doctor’s appointment for a birth control prescription will be able to go straight to the pharmacy for the contraception… state law, passed in 2013 with plans to be implemented in October, gives licensed pharmacists authorization to prescribe self-administered hormonal contraceptives,...SB 493, also allows pharmacists to prescribe nicotine replacement products,…travel medication, and gives pharmacists status as health care providers.

Boston Medical Center has received a $1.3 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to support a demonstration project of pharmacy-based naloxone rescue kits to help reduce opioid addiction and overdose death in two New England States: Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The study will be conducted in partnership with Rhode Island Hospital.., CVS Health, which has pharmacies throughout the U.S., and several local community pharmacies…including...Eaton Apothecary.

Pharmacies have enormous potential to expand the reach and impact of critical public health interventions, just as we have seen happen with pharmacy access to clean syringes and adult immunizations...how do we do that with naloxone rescue kits?