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To encourage and provide education for female pharmacists interested in becoming entrepreneurs, Cardinal Health…Pharmacy Ownership Boot Camp at its Retail Business Conference…stagnant number of female pharmacist entrepreneurs…"real or perceived lack of business or financial acumen" could be keeping women out of pharmacy ownership...

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy…planning to enhance several of its examination and assessment programs to better reflect the evolving practice of pharmacy. The new North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX )… competency statements and revised passing standard…transition to a new administration model..increase in length from 185 items to 250 items…move…to a pass/fail platform...

National Institute of Standards and Technology,…has unveiled its long-awaited mobile security guide, specifically written for safeguarding medical data… myriad reasons for compiling such a guide…"many healthcare providers are using mobile devices in healthcare delivery before they have appropriate privacy and security protections in place."

lack of effective communications between the Drug Enforcement Agency and both pharmaceutical distributors and chain pharmacy headquarters has impacted legitimate access to pain medicines, according to a report released by…Government Accountability Office…Both distributors and retail pharmacies still request improved guidance and a greater degree of interaction with the DEA, though the agency does not concur,…

HealthSpot's…telehealth stations went live inside 25 Rite Aid locations… first-of-its-kind model pairs licensed healthcare providers with state-of-the-art technology…consumers looking for convenient and quality healthcare… allows users to interact with…providers in a private, 40-square foot station using high-definition videoconferencing and interactive medical devices...

People who avoid taking statins for managing high cholesterol face hurdles to costly new treatments…powerful new class of drugs promises to change the management of heart disease for high-risk patients who struggle to get their cholesterol levels under control…only some of them are likely to get the new medicines.

Naloxone expanded-access provisions that recently took effect in Colorado practically push pharmacists to provide the opioid overdose antidote to anyone requesting it, but many pharmacists in the state still have concerns about dispensing it...fear for some pharmacists...misconception that providing naloxone is encouraging drug abuse and facilitating dependence...

online prescription drug seller has agreed to forfeit $450,000 in illegal sales after knowingly dispensing medication without a prescription… Aracoma Drug Company of West Virginia, received electronic, invalid prescriptions…issued from questionnaires completed over the Internet and not after a physician’s examination as required by law….

Express Scripts.., the largest pharmacy benefit manager in the United States,...said the cost of potent new cholesterol drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors could "wreak financial havoc" among its clients.

latest edition of EvaluatePharma’s World Preview 2015, Outlook to 2020. This annual report projects for prescription drug sales and R&D activity in the U.S. and abroad…THINGS ARE GOING GREAT……AND THEY'RE ONLY GETTING BETTER..