The role of the pharmacist has often been overlooked, or at least paled in comparison to that of the doctor. Seemingly less glamorous, their job description has been reduced to counting pills and filling bottles.

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A Brunswick man accused of making death threats against a judge was suffering from a toxic prescription drug interaction, a pharmacologist testified Tuesday.

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Confronted by two holdup men, pharmacist Jerome Ersland pulled a gun, shot one of them in the head and chased the other away.

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Well, looks like that pharmacist may have crossed the line when he shot the 16 year old kid the second time. If he truly was unconscious when killed, this amounts more to execution than self-defense and the guy deserves jail time for it.

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Ask Me 3

Good Questions for Your Good Health www.askme3.org Every time you talk with a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist, use the Ask Me 3 questions to better understand your health. 1. What is my main problem? 2. What do I need to do? 3. Why is it important for me to do this?

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A group of pharmacists asked the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday to throw out a rule that forces them to dispense emergency contraception despite moral objections, claiming it amounts to illegal coercion.

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An appeals court today upheld a decision by the state Pharmacy Examining Board reprimanding and placing conditions on the license of a pharmacist who refused to fill or transfer a patient's prescription for an oral contraceptive.

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PINELLAS PARK - Within an hour of robbing a CVS pharmacist at knifepoint early Saturday, a 26-year-old Seminole man told his mother, who promptly turned him in, police said.

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I doubt many of you know this, but Missouri is a Republican state. From the Governor on down, it's a government beholden to the christian right that put them in power. Here's yet another example of theocracy run amok, trying to reclassifying contraception so that it's abortion...

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Indispensable: Medicine and Conscientious Obstructors

In the wake of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, some states proposed legislation and passed laws designed to allow doctors and other direct providers of health care to refuse to perform or assist in an abortion, and hospitals to refuse to allow abortion on their premises.

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TRENTON, N.J.

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Critics have called cuts in Medicaid prescription drug benefits immoral. When Bush said "It's not immoral to make sure that prescription drug pharmacists don't overcharge the system," pharmacists were infuriated.

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