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The Changing Landscape of Pharmacy Accessibility

Pharmacy Times

Access to community pharmacies: a nationwide geographic information systems cross-sectional analysis. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). What pharmacy benefit managers do, and how they contribute to drug spending. The importance of innovative solutions to provide pharmaceutical care to these communities cannot be overstated.

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Pharmacies Need Strategies to Improve Health Care Access

Pharmacy Times

1 Organizations are taking action to improve care for everyone, but pharmacists and pharmacy technicians may be unaware of their opportunities to advance SDOH. Wick, MBA, RPh, FASCP, is the director of the Office of Pharmacy Professional Development at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003).

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Pharmacists Can Educate Patients About Sun Safety

Pharmacy Times

a pharmacy-based, sun safety feasibility study. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). link] SPOT Skin Cancer seeks a world without skin cancer. American Academy of Dermatology. Accessed June 5, 2025. link] Kelly KM, Dhumal T, Scott VG, et al. 2021;61(1):e69-e79. doi:10.1016/j.japh.2020.10.004 2020.10.004 Sunscreen FAQs. Accessed June 5, 2025.

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Understanding Recent Changes to 505(b)(2) Drugs and Reimbursement

Pharmacy Times

From 2003 to 2023, 943 drugs were approved through the 505(b)(2) pathway. As of January 1, 2023, CMS has begun issuing unique J-codes to 505(b)(2) drugs dating back to 2003. “In However, 505(b)(2) drugs have been available since the 1980s. “CMS

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Do We Really Pay More for Prescription Drugs in the United States?

Pharmacy Times

Author(s): Troy Trygstad, PharmD, PhD, MBA, Pharmacy Times Editor in Chief Yes. Bush’s Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003, and with it drug coverage for tens of millions of Medicare enrollees for the first time in program history. Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, HR 1, 108th Cong (2003).

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The Role of Pharmacists in Cardiovascular Health: A Collaborative Approach to Treatment, Counseling, and Nutrition

Pharmacy Times

J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). The effect of community pharmacy-based interventions on patient health outcomes: a systematic review. 2022;28(11):2238-2240. doi:10.1038/s41591-022-02027-3. Fera T, Bluml BM, Ellis WM. Diabetes Ten City Challenge: final economic and clinical results. 2009;49(3):383-391. doi:10.1331/JAPhA.2009.09015

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: More than 9 in 10 pharmacy techs report drug shortages; Yale and VA strike deal over ketamine patent royalties

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Yale and the VA agreed in 2003 to share royalties on patents with inventors from both institutions. Nearly 96% of pharmacy technicians report their pharmacy faces drug shortages , according to an online survey last month by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board.