Pharmacy Business

Dragana Skokovic-Sunjic has followed her curiosity from working as a community pharmacist to becoming a specialist in menopause, part of a family health team, and the founder of a widely used informational resource on probiotics. Here’s how she did it:

To be able to provide the kind of holistic healthcare she believes in, Lisa Zaretzky has built her ultimate pharmacy.

Four youths—three 14-year-olds and one 16-year-old —are alleged to have been involved in carjacking vehicles, and then using those stolen vehicles to rob pharmacies.

MacLeod spent 50 years as a pharmacist in Yarmouth before becoming deputy mayor and a town councillor. 

Pharmacists in B.C. are now allowed to renew medications and administer more vaccines, and minor ailment prescribing is not far behind. "It's exciting," says Geraldine Vance, Chief Executive Officer of the BC Pharmacy Association.

A new rule change allows pharmacists to prescribe compounded pediatric acetaminophen products, which can then be created at compounding pharmacies. 

A customer who went to pick up a prescription from a Milwaukie Rite Aid was greeted by a handwritten note that said the pharmacy was closed due to an overwhelming amount of backlogged prescriptions.

New NHS figures show more than 100,000 people were seen by high street pharmacists for minor ailments and urgent medication needs in June alone.