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Could Pharmacists Help Fix Health Care?

Over the weekend, CVS Health and Aetna formally announced their long-rumored plans to merge. Many have already tried to divine what the merger’s legacy might be, as it’s certainly poised to shake up America’s economy and health care system. Some have fixated on the new company’s presumed antagonist, Amazon, and how the merger might force a rewrite of the retail giant’s play for the pharmaceutical market. Others suggest that the merger may be a big win for consumers, and could lower drug prices in the short term. Meanwhile, the local media in Rhode Island—the state where I’m currently writing this essay—have focused on how the merger would make the Ocean State home to America’s third-biggest…

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 Could Pharmacists Help Fix Health Care?

The CVS-Aetna merger might be the first step toward changing their role. Evidence and history suggest this could be the right move.

PharmacyJoe.com

My mission is to provide you unbiased & valuable critical care pharmacy content.

PharmacyWeek

PharmacyWeek is the place for information on pharmacy jobs, pharmacy salaries, and other pharmacy career resources.

DrugWonks.com

Drugwonks.com is the web log of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI), a forum offering rigorous and compelling research on the most critical issues affecting current drug policy. - See more at: http://drugwonks.com/index#sthash.m7HgKewz.dpuf

Eye on FDA

What Will I Find on This Blog? First off, you will find resources — convenient links to the FDA website so that you don’t have to go digging through that huge space to find what you are looking for. You can find here. Second, you will get my views on the latest trends I perceive how I believe that regulatory or legislative action might impact the market place, and what kinds of communications are helpful or harmful to the best interests of bringing new drugs to the marketplace.

In The Pipeline

Derek Lowe's commentary on drug discovery and the pharma industry. An editorially independent blog from the publishers of Science Translational Medicine.

Med Ed 101

Med Ed 101 is tops if you are looking for some “free education.” Case studies, board-certified pharmacotherapy specialist (BCPS) information and other resources are plentiful and free.

Monthly Prescribing Reference

Monthly Prescribing Reference (MPR) [and its sister publications] is an up-to-date guide to commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals, as well as certain OTC products. It has been produced to provide an easily accessible reminder of basic information useful to review when prescribing medications, such as specific indications for use, dosage, and a checklist of precautions, interactions, and adverse drug reactions.

CafePharma.com

Cafe Pharma is a site for drug reps by drug reps. We hope you find a sense of community here--a place where you can meet with others in our industry and share your successes and struggles, etc. Here, you may learn which companies are hiring and firing; which companies you want to work for and which ones you don't.

Drug Discovery News

There is no other publication in our market that covers news specific to pharmaceutical drug discovery. Thus, you can always rely on Drug Discovery News, as well as our content-rich Web site, as your source for news about the drug discovery and development industry

Drug Information Association

DIA is a member-driven non-profit association that serves more than 30,000 professionals involved in the discovery, development, regulation, surveillance, or marketing of pharmaceuticals or related products worldwide.

Drug Store News

Drug Store News has been the voice of the retail drug industry for over seven decades. Forty thousand industry professionals read this publication for its timely coverage of industry news, merchandising trends and pharmacy developments.

Drug Topics

Drug Topics is the only comprehensive monthly newsmagazine for pharmacists. For 150 years, Drug Topics has provided the clinical and practical information in an easy-to-read concise format to help pharmacists stay current in their daily practice.

Drugs.com

Comprehensive and up-to-date drug news for both consumers and healthcare professionals. Including pharmaceutical industry news, new drug approvals, applications and clinical trial results.

Outsourcing-Pharma

OutSourcing-Pharma.com team is led by award-winning journalists. They scan all available scientific, technical and industry sources and search out previously unpublished material, primary data and expert opinions in all areas of significance to the target audience.

Partnership for Personalized Prescriptions

The Partnership for Personalized Prescriptions brings together patients and practitioners who advocate for pharmacy compounding, customized medications.

Pharmaceutical Business Review

The Business Review websites are your number one stop for all the latest news, comment and industry information.

Pharmacist's Letter

Pharmacist's Letter is a subscription service for pharmacists covering new developments in drug therapy, and trends in pharmacy practice. Pharmacist's Letter started in 1985 and currently serves most pharmacists in the United States and Canada.

Pharmacy Daily

Pharmacy Daily is Australia's newest publication dedicated to the retail pharmacy.

Pharmacy Times

Pharmacy Times is dedicated to providing pharmacists with practical, authoritative information with the ultimate goal of improving patient care. Primarily focused on providing clinical information that pharmacists can use in their everyday practice when counseling patients and interacting with physicians,

PharmExec.com

Pharmaceutical Executive, a digital magazine offering news and opinions, analysis, features and executive profiles.

PharmTech.com

PharmTech.com is a comprehensive information source for all professionals in the global pharmaceutical manufacturing drug development community, brought to you by Pharmaceutical Technology and Pharmaceutical Technology Europe.

RXinsider

RXinsider is a multimedia publishing and technology company offering print publications, digital platforms, events, and content creation services to the B2B pharmacy market.

RxList

RxList is an online medical resource dedicated to offering detailed and current pharmaceutical information on brand and generic drugs. Founded by pharmacists in 1995, RxList is the premier Internet Drug Index resource.

SafeMedication

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) is the 30,000-member national professional association comprised of pharmacists who work with doctors and other health professionals. ASHP's mission is to support pharmacists in helping people use medications safely and effectively.

The Pharmaceutical Journal

PJ Online content is produced by PJ Publications, part of Pharmaceutical Press, the publishing division of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. All PJ publications are editorially independent of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

The Virtual Pharmacy

Comprehensive section on phamacology and toxicology.

U.S. Pharmacist

U.S. Pharmacist is a monthly journal dedicated to providing the nation's pharmacists with up-to-date, authoritative, peer-reviewed clinical articles relevant to contemporary pharmacy practice in a variety of settings, including community pharmacy, hospitals, managed care systems, ambulatory care clinics, home care organizations, long-term care facilities, industry, and academia.

America's Pharmacist

America's Pharmacist, the official magazine of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), reaches every independent pharmacy in the United States''more than 23,000 locations.

Drug Policy Alliance

The Drug Policy Alliance Network (DPA Network) is the nation's leading organization promoting policy alternatives to the drug war that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights.

USP

The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) is an official public standards''setting authority for all prescription and over''the''counter medicines and other health care products manufactured or sold in the United States. USP also sets widely recognized standards for food ingredients and dietary supplements.

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