Pharmacists were ranked as the second most honest and ethical profession in 2016, according to the results of an annual Gallup poll that asks American consumers to rate professions according to perceptions of honesty and ethical standards. Pharmacists were ranked as very high or high in this category by 67% of those surveyed in the […]

With technological advances leading to new ways for patients to access health care, challenges and concerns for patient safety have arisen, notes patient safety advocates at FaegreBD Consulting. For example, consumers are increasingly turning to the internet for less expensive medicines even though 88% of United States consumers believe they do not have enough information […]

NABP and CriticalPoint, LLC, are pleased to announce a new class of inspectors who earned the Certification in Sterile Compounding for Inspectors as part of the Sterile Compounding Inspector Training program. Individuals from 15 boards of pharmacy attended informative classroom sessions and practicums that took place in cleanroom settings, completed the entire Sterile Compounding eLearning […]

A new website was launched by the Verified Top-Level Domains (vTLD) Consortium, a voluntary association of registry operators that verify all registrants prior to permitting use of a domain name. The vTLD Consortium’s website, www.vtld.domains, aims to enhance public knowledge about the unique value of vTLDs as legitimate and trusted channels for products, services, and […]

The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) has released its Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program Progress Report for State and Federal Regulators: October 2016. The report stresses the importance of critical patient care provided through legitimate online pharmacies and the dangers posed by lack of such patient care options on rogue internet drug outlets. […]

Google now recognizes the .pharmacy Top-Level Domain (TLD) as meeting requirements for pharmacies and related entities to advertise online. Since 2010, Google has allowed pharmacies or other prescription drug-related entities to advertise online in the United States and Canada only if they are accredited or approved by NABP. As of mid-October 2016, Google advertising policies […]

A medical office manager in Tennessee pled guilty to misdemeanor charges that she imported non-FDA-approved cancer medications from the United Kingdom to the clinic where she worked in Chattanooga. The information sheet indicates that the medical office manager received the misbranded drug Taxotere®. A misbranded drug is a “drug that was manufactured, prepared, propagated, compounded, […]

NABP has published a summary report of the curricular survey conducted in 2015 with United States schools and colleges of pharmacy. Outcomes of the curricular survey are presented in The 2015 United States Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy Curricular Survey – Summary Report and are used to evaluate and inform the content domains and blueprints […]