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Presented by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association
With Rachel Roubein, Alice Miranda Ollstein, Susannah Luthi, Dan Goldberg, Joanne Kenen and Daniel Lippman
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The National Association of Chain Drug Stores’ virtual Regional Chain Conference kicked off Monday with a discussion from the organization’s top leaders about the role regional chains have played in the nation’s response to COVID-19. As the pandemic has elevated pharmacies’ role in patient care to new heights, speakers expressed a desire for pharmacies to remain empowered even after the pandemic subsides.
Craig Norman, senior vice president of pharmacy at H-E-B and NACDS’ 2021 Regional Chain Chair noted that while early retailer efforts were around making shopping safer for consumers building out delivery and other convenience/safety offerings these coincided with a slowdown in immunizations and immunization programs. But a slow spring and summer gave way to a busy flu shot season, offering pharmacy a chance to shine.
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Chip Unruh, the press secretary for Sen.
Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, blasted out a gentle reminder email to the Capitol Hill press: “Reed is NOT Chairman of SASC (yet).” Reed’s ascension to chair of the defense committee will come once Senate Majority Leader
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IRANIAN SCHOLAR CHARGED WITH VIOLATING FARA: The Justice Department announced today it has arrested an Iranian political scientist and scholar for acting as an unregistered agent of the Islamic Republic. According to a complaint unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn,