PCOA Successfully Administered to 128 Schools of Pharmacy During the First Two Testing Windows of 2016
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) is pleased to announce that 128 schools and colleges of pharmacy provided the Pharmacy Curriculum Outcomes Assessment® (PCOA®) to 17,005 students during the first two testing windows of 2016. NABP is in its first year of providing the PCOA at no cost to schools/colleges of pharmacy for […]
Read More ›Illegal Purchases of Controlled Substances Are Made Easier via Rogue Internet Drug Outlets, Reports NABP
Last week, NABP released its Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program Progress Report for State and Federal Regulators: July 2016. The report explores the connection between the dangers of rogue internet drug outlets and the risk of overdose from illegally dispensed prescription controlled substances (CS), as well as possibly tainted counterfeit medicines. Over the past eight […]
Read More ›New Research Shows PDMPs Associated With Reduction in Opioid Overdose Deaths
State prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) were connected to the prevention of nearly one opioid-related overdose death every two hours on average nationwide, reports a new study led by Vanderbilt University. The study, “Implementation of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Associated With Reductions in Opioid-Related Death Rates,” analyzed mortality data and data on states’ PDMPs from […]
Read More ›NABP Seeks Qualified Nominee to Fill District 6 Executive Committee Member Position
NABP seeks nominations for a member or administrative officer to fill the District 6 representative position on the NABP Executive Committee. Board of pharmacy members or administrative officers who are from District 6 states, including Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas, and who are active participants in NABP are encouraged to submit a letter […]
Read More ›.Pharmacy TLD Featured in Interview With Neustar
Carmen A. Catizone, MS, RPh, DPh, NABP executive director/secretary, discussed the .pharmacy domain name and its benefits for the domain name industry, registrants, and public health during an interview with Neustar, a company that provides top-level domain (TLD) registry services. Other topics of discussion included the process for registering a .pharmacy domain name, Bing’s revised […]
Read More ›NABP PMP InterConnect Will Remain Free to Participating States Past 2018
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) is pleased to announce that it will provide state prescription monitoring programs (PMPs) with access to NABP’s PMP InterConnect®at no cost so states can focus their resources and federal grants to support PMP operations. Currently, 42 states have executed memorandums of understanding to be part of PMP […]
Read More ›Over Forty States Are Now Members of PMP InterConnect
Alabama, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania have joined 38 other states by executing a memorandum of understanding with NABP to participate in NABP PMP InterConnect®. These states/jurisdictions will be working toward a live connection with other states in the coming months. “A key enhancement of the Massachusetts Prescription Awareness Tool (MassPAT) is the […]
Read More ›NABP Aims to Increase Consumer Awareness of Counterfeit Medications; Offers Safe and Legal Online Pharmacies Through .Pharmacy TLD Program
NABP issued a report discussing the Association’s expanded efforts to raise consumer awareness about the dangers of medications purchased from unapproved and unknown online sources and the solution offered by the .Pharmacy Top-Level Domain (TLD) Program, which provides a means for finding safe Internet pharmacies. As detailed in the Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program Progress […]
Read More ›Bing Revises Online Pharmacy Advertising Policy to Recognize .Pharmacy TLD
Online pharmacies and drug information sites approved by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) to register a .Pharmacy Top-Level Domain (TLD) are now eligible to advertise prescription medications with Microsoft Bing Ads in the United States and Canada effective April 13, 2016. Under Bing’s previous advertising policy for pharmacy and health care products […]
Read More ›NABP Debuts Redesigned Print and Electronic Newsletters
This new design for NABP e-News complements NABP’s redesigned and renamed printed newsletter, Innovations, which is mailing to members and subscribers this week. The goal of both redesigns was to provide readers with contemporary and visually captivating looks, making for more engaging and reader-friendly publications. Innovations, the printed newsletter, will retain all of the original […]
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