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By Dr. Abimbola Farinde
 Medicare Part D was established as a voluntary outpatient prescription drug benefit to ensure that individuals who are on Medicare — including those who are 65 years of age and older as well as those under 65 years with permanent disabilities — can have subsidized access to Medicare drug benefits. Recently, there have been concerns related to Medicare's spending on high-cost "catastrophic" drugs, which has increased by 85 percent in just two years.
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AzPA
The 2016 Fall Conference was a success. The AzPA wants to thank all of the attendees, conference speakers, the non-accredited lunch program sponsor Abbvie, and our exhibitors Pfizer and Tapi. Click here to see photos from the conference.
AzPA
Legislators are coming out to see all the creative and innovative ways our independent pharmacists are making their mark on our communities! Local pharmacist and owner of SnS Pharmacy, Ashwin and his wife, Aparna, graciously welcomed Senator Jeff Dial and Representative Jill Norgaard to tour their pharmacy and talk about some of the successes as well as challenges of owning an independent pharmacy in Arizona.
Our legislators want to hear from you! If you would like to host a pharmacy tour, please contact Erin at erin@azpharmacy.org to make sure your voice is heard at the state level. We are extremely grateful to all our members who have participated in these tours, you really are making a difference!
AzPA
The final webinar in the Virtual Learning Webinar Series for the Medication Summer Series: Reducing Adverse Events Related to High-Risk Medications is Wednesday, Sept. 28. Registration is free! For more information, click here.
To register for the Medication Summer Series, click here.
Southwestern Clinical Seminar
Feb. 24-26, 2017
DoubleTree by Hilton
Tucson — Reid Park
2017 Annual Convention
June 8-11, 2017
The Westin La Paloma
Tucson, Arizona
AzPA Immunization Delivery Training Program
Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016
Tucson, Arizona
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AzPA Women’s Reproductive Health Certificate Program
Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016
Tempe, Arizona
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AzPA Immunization Delivery Training Program
Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016
Glendale, Arizona
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CDC.gov
Some 5 million Medicare Part D enrollees age 65 and older are not taking their blood pressure medicine properly, increasing their risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and death, according to a new "Vital Signs" report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Medicare Part D is a federal program that helps Medicare beneficiaries with the costs of prescription drugs and prescription drug insurance premiums.
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APhA
Uninsurance among patients who used prescription drugs dropped by 30 percent between 2013 and 2014, when the Affordable Care Act took effect, according to a study published in the August issue of Health Affairs. Formerly uninsured individuals also filled more prescriptions and spent less out of pocket over this time period.
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APhA
Congress won’t reauthorize the Prescription Drug User Fee Act until 2017, but APhA and other pharmacy organizations expressed satisfaction with FDA-proposed provisions that would enhance the use of real-world evidence in decisions that affect the content of guidances on key pharmaceutical issues—in this case, the process for prescription drug approval and postmarket evaluation. PDUFA authorizes FDA to collect fees from biopharmaceutical companies to subsidize the agency’s process for reviewing new drugs and biologics.
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ASHP
As hospitals ponder whether they're doing all they should to keep narcotics waste out of the hands of illicit drug users, strange questions can arise.
Such as: Would anyone suck on a clump of pine-based kitty litter to get high from narcotics waste that had been squirted into that substance?
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Pharmacy Practice News
There is some good and bad news in the fight against antibiotic resistance to treat gonorrhea in Europe.
In 2014, the susceptibility of gonococci to two of the recommended antibiotics for gonorrhea treatment has decreased, according to results from the European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme report. At the same time, the report notes a significant increase in resistance to another antibiotic agent that is part of the suggested dual therapy of gonorrhea.
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AAP Gateway
Poorly designed labels and packaging are key contributors to medication errors. To identify attributes of labels and dosing tools that could be improved, we examined the extent to which dosing error rates are affected by tool characteristics and discordance between units of measurement on labels and dosing tools; along with differences by health literacy and language.
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Medical News Today
Scientists have discovered a way to entirely remove the urge to drink alcohol compulsively in an animal model. The researchers hope that, with enough funding, a solution to this age-old problem might be on the horizon.
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Pharmacy Times
New findings from an online survey suggest more than two-thirds of American adults are strongly or somewhat in favor of banning the sale of all tobacco products at retail pharmacies. Moreover, nearly half of cigarette smokers and users of other tobacco products favor prohibiting tobacco sales in retail pharmacy stores.
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