The Future of Specialty Drugs

(Part of a series)
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Specialty Pharmacy

While pharmaceuticals have always had a vital impact on patients’ outcomes and improved quality of life, they also have played a large role in the growing expenditures of healthcare. Increased spending on pharmaceuticals outpaced every other category of healthcare expenses throughout the 1990s. But in the past few years, managed care pharmacy executives have had [...]

Antibiotic Resistance: Who’s Fault is it Anyway?

I’ve been preaching about the misuse of antibiotics for years, and the public at large is finally getting the message. “Antibiotic resistance and superbugs such as MRSA,” I’d say with the utmost conviction, “is due to so many unnecessary prescriptions for viral colds and flu!” That sounds familiar right? That’s what they taught us to [...]

Flex Your Spending Muscle Before It’s Too Late!

As the end of the year fast approaches, it’s time to look at your flexible spending account (FSA). These accounts tend to be “use it or lose it”, as it is wise to determine if you have a surplus of funds and how to utilize them so they aren’t lost. Here is a list of [...]

Acute Pain Control in the Emergency Setting: Non-Narcotic Alternatives

“Ma’am I understand your situation. I know it hurts you every day. I know it keeps you from doing the things you love to do, and I know that you’re getting depressed from the constant agony and the inability, but my hands are tied because your doctor has placed a message in your file that [...]

Will OTCs Help Reduce Healthcare Debt?

With the focus on healthcare changing, everybody in pharmacy is scrambling to show value added services and improved healthcare at lower reimbursement rates.
It’s everyone’s guess where the potential health plan will land, but rest assured, there will be a need for patients to spend more time looking at ways to make their healthcare dollars stretch.
Many [...]

Is Central Fill Taking Away My Job?

Recently I was filling in a shift at a local retail pharmacy and was listening to a couple of technicians talk about Central Fill coming to their company.
As you can imagine, the first thought that came to their head was “Am I being replaced by a robot?”
Good question, but not likely. Although central fill and [...]

Rx: Flu Shot

As flu season approaches, pharmacists are becoming very busy. As most of you know, the role of administering flu vaccines has been recently acquired by the pharmacy profession allowing pharmacists to expand their diversity of service to patients. This is a great time to display how valuable pharmacists can be in one of the many [...]

A Patients View

I have to say that my favorite place to get a prescription filled is my small town pharmacy. There is nothing like this experience and it’s sad to say there are not very many of these places left.
This all begins when you walk into Dauber Pharmacy and someone greets you by name. Not hello sir, [...]

Cost Effective Alzheimer’s Prevention

Alzheimer’s is very common among the elderly. Nearly 4 million people in the US suffer from this disease. That is nearly 1 in 50 people.3 As legislators, you are not blind to this fact. Congress has spent millions in contribution for Alzheimer’s and the disease cost Medicare 31.9 billion dollars in [...]

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