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The Walmart Foundation….will give away $15.5 million in grants to seven national nonprofits to support free meal and nutrition education programs this summer and throughout the school year. The programs in more than 7,700 communities across the country will help over 1 million low-income children and their families…

Given the upcoming changes in the pharmacy tech world, here are the Internet’s best pharmacy technician hacks, some of which are common sense, though others take more ingenuity. These 20 tricks can help techs save time, and potentially, sanity:

...anybody in the UK selling medicines online to the general public needs to be registered with the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency....Anybody buying medicines online can check if the website is legitimately registered and will be able to click on the logo which will take them through to a list of approved sellers.

Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy students recently began working in a new sterile compounding laboratory constructed partly in response to the fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012. The lab…can hold up to 14 students working in the sterile environment….designed to comply with standards set by the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy and Chapter <797>.

…dismissing most of Nikmanesh’s claims,… ruled that the lawsuit “lacked sufficient factual allegations” to support claims that Walmart cheated pharmacists out of work breaks, overtime pay, and did not compensate pharmacists for time spent studying for and completing immunization-training programs…the lawsuit gained new life recently when Guilford denied Walmart’s motion to dismiss it, ruling..

Clinical pharmacists included in team-based interventions can reduce the proportion of potentially inappropriate medications dispensed to elderly patients in the emergency department ...Enhancing the Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Veterans Discharged… integrated provider education, electronic medical record-embedded pharmacy order sets, and peer feedback and benchmarking into the care model.

The takeaway: David Kwiatkowski, who is serving a 39-year jail sentence for stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C, explains how he stole narcotics and continued to be hired for hospital jobs—despite repeatedly being caught.

California pharmacist Afrouz Nikmanesh recently filed a class-action lawsuit against Walmart, alleging the retail giant cheated her and her colleagues out of work breaks and overtime pay.

Ron Lanton …. discusses how the specialty pharmacy landscape will evolve in the coming years.

"The pharmacist is really an untapped resource," But there's a big drawback for pharmacists. Now they can perform all these services once reserved for the doctor's office. But, they won't get paid for the extra time it takes to provide them. The law does not compel insurance companies,...to reimburse these services…