(The Center Square) – Ohioans could soon be able to get needed prescriptions from a pharmacist, rather than a physician. A new bill, House Bill 629, would expand the practice of licensed pharmacists, ...

If you're like 80-plus million people across the nation, you're having a hard time seeing a primary care doctor. So, what do you do when the doctor won't see you now? Pharmacists may be able to help. ...

In this month’s column, DSN’s editor-in-chief takes a look at how the gulf between doctors and pharmacists s is widening at a time when we need them to collaborate. In 2020, the American Medical ...

Several states are expanding pharmacists’ scope of practice to allow them to prescribe amid a shortage of primary care physicians and other healthcare workers. As state legislative sessions wrap up ...

In the medical industry, prescribing a treatment without first thoroughly diagnosing a patient’s illness can leave the doctor open to the risk of a malpractice suit. This same principle applies to ...

That may sound strange: Aren’t most doctors opposed to pharmacists writing prescriptions? And besides, a birth control pill has already been approved to be available over the counter — so why care ...

Pharmacists will partner with patients and doctors in a new national project to reduce patient medication errors that frequently occur during hospital stays. Image Credit: University of South ...