Pharmacists play a vital role in oncology, enhancing patient care through medication management, education, and support for novel therapies.

The pharmacist is a critical member of the care team to help manage patients on treatment and contain costs of cancer care, said Kirollos S. Hanna, PharmD, BCPS, BCOP, FACCC, director of pharmacy, ...

Lest anyone think that pharmacists do little more than dispense prescriptions, a new study from Columbia University dispels the notion, and then some. Pharmacists will figure more centrally in ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, response efforts in the US continue to put pressure on health care organizations and resources. Direct patient care by pharmacists has been shown to potentially ...

As hospitals look for ways to stem the opioid crisis, a survey of health-system pharmacy directors released today found that most large health systems have active stewardship programs to prevent the ...

Amid a worsening healthcare provider shortage, many people trust pharmacists to play a larger role in their care management, according to research findings released Jan. 11. Researchers from Columbia ...

When COVID-19 forced the shutdown of doctors’ offices across the country last spring, community pharmacies remained open — and pharmacists stepped up, taking on more patient counseling, immunizations ...

As front-line health-care professionals, many pharmacists are playing an important role in patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic in community pharmacies, hospitals and other health-care settings ...

For years, pharmacists have been evolving their role beyond dispensing medications. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, pharmacists demonstrated the immense value they bring to patients and the entire ...

Integrating domestic violence (DV) education into pharmacy curriculum is a vital step to equipping pharmacists with the necessary skills to effectively address DV, according to a new Monash study ...

In 1997, a joint declaration between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) describing "The Role of the Pharmacist Against HIV/AIDS Pandemic" was ...

Are people relying too much on the traditional doctor/patient interaction? By Aaron E. Carroll “Older adults are taking an awful lot of pills these days," says a professor of medicine and pharmacy.