Pharmacy Continuing Education Program Presented by Greater Los Angeles Pharmacists Association (GLAPhA) in partnership with Pharmacists Planning Service, Inc. (PPSI) and Birth Control Pharmacist Medications for Addiction Treatment: Alcohol, Opioid, and Tobacco Use Disorders presented by Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, DFASAM Director of Addiction Medicine Los Angeles County Department of [...]
Pharmacists Planning Services, Inc. (PPSI) will present the 2019 Distinguished Person of the Year Award to California State Senator Jeff Stone in recognition of his support for the profession of pharmacy and public health advocacy. Since 1975, the PPSI Distinguished Person of the Year Award has been awarded each year to an individual who has [...]
Public Health Town Hall & Breakfast Pharmacists Planning Service, Inc. (PPSI) and ACA Foundation (ACA), in conjunction with California Pharmacists Association (CPhA), Pharmacy Defense Fund (PDF), and Independent Pharmacists Association (IPA) Present the 27th Annual William R. Bacon Memorial Breakfast & Public Health Town Hall Meeting Sunday, April 14, 2019 7:00 AM - [...]
Public Health Town Hall & Breakfast Presented by Pharmacists Planning Service, Inc. (PPSI) and American College of Apothecaries Foundation (ACA), in conjunction with Drug Topics Magazine Sunday, March 24, 2019 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM Sheraton Seattle - 1400 6th Ave, Seattle, WA Willow AB Room Cost: $20 FREE for 2019 PPSI Supporters (please [...]
California Pharmacists Opioid Safety Training The Last Line of Defense in the Healthcare Team More than 2,000 people in California die every year from overdoses related to opioids. Pharmacists are literally the last line of defense in the healthcare team. Register below for this one-hour CME class for pharmacists on safe dispensing of opioid medications. [...]
The California State Board of Pharmacy announces a milestone in public access to health care with the creation of a new classification of professionals known as advanced practice pharmacists. The board is now accepting applications and ready to begin licensing these highly educated and trained pharmacists who will collaborate with providers to directly treat and [...]
U.S. Generic Drug Probe Seen Expanding After Guilty Pleas by Tom Schoenberg, David McLaughlin, and Sophia Pearson December 14, 2016, 8:43 AM PST December 14, 2016, 4:21 PM PST Two executives of a small generic-drug maker are preparing to plead guilty to price-fixing charges and will cooperate with U.S. prosecutors examining allegations of widespread collusion [...]
Top-three recognition for 14th straight year shows importance of pursuing a pro-pharmacy, pro-patient policy agenda, NACDS says 12.21.2016 "The takeaway for policymakers is that the pharmacist-patient relationship has tremendous potential to do even more to improve patient health and well-being, along with the overall quality and affordability of healthcare." click here to read the story
Nurses Medical Cannabis Workshop: A Clinical Focus Gang: Thanks to all of you who attended our cannabis pharmacology presentation at Salute Restaurant in Point Richmond last Sunday, September 25. Corinne and John Malanca, owners of United Patients Group, who sponsored Dr. Lee Wolfer and her presentation handed out postcards on an upcoming workshop in Lafayette, [...]
