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Moving the Needle From Vaccine Hesitancy to Vaccine Acceptance

Pharmacy Times

7 Additional barriers include fear of vaccines, lack of believable information, systemic obstacles such as cost and drug storage, and vaccine accessibility. 4 Vaccine Hesitancy Vaccine hesitancy—reluctance or refusal to receive immunizations for preventable infectious diseases—is on the list of the top 10 global health threats.

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Overview of New USP Chapters, Upcoming USP Chapters on Temperature Excursion Management for Drug Storage, Distribution

Pharmacy Times

Desmond Hunt, PhD, senior principal scientist at US Pharmacopeia (USP), discusses the standards and resources that USP has recently published or is looking at now on the subject of pharmacy in transit.

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Employee Spotlight: Stephanie Everard Pharmacist

indispensable health

Pharmacists are the drug experts! I encourage the surgery centers to ask me any questions they have in relation to drug storage, administration, or dosing to assist them. I go out to surgery centers to assist with maintaining pharmacy and medication compliance.