FLAVORx provides pharmacy schools and technician programs with the tools and resources necessary to educate students about the role of flavoring with respect to medication adherence and the patient experience. Using the FLAVORx system, faculty members encourage their students to recognize the importance of taste barriers and personalization when it Read more…
Flu Season and Flavoring – Helping Kids be CompliantAs many of you are well aware, this looks to be another heavy flu season. As you and your team find yourselves dispensing more Tamiflu oral suspension (OS) and, due to a shortage of the OS, the compounded oral suspension, it is Read more…
Family Care Pharmacy of Jacksonville, of Jacksonville, NC, wins the inaugural FLAVORx Independent Pharmacy of the Year Award. Runners-up include Apple Discount Drugs of Salisbury, MD; Family Pharmacy of Worcester, MA; Gilbert Pharmacy of Gilbert, WV; Lawton Chiles Children and Family of Bradenton, FL; Miller Drug of Bangor, ME; and Read more…
FLAVORx will present its first ever Independent Pharmacy of the Year Award in October, to coincide with American Pharmacists Month. We would like to announce the inaugural FLAVORx Independent Pharmacy of the Year award, to be presented each October in conjunction with American Pharmacists Month. The 2013 FLAVORx Independent Pharmacy Read more…
“All children need power; this need can be satisfied through control, decision-making and choice.” ~ Jan Faull M.Ed. Intuitively, we know that: Giving kids choices leads to cooperation. When we offer children choices, we are promoting independence and responsibility while we still ensure their health and safety by controlling and Read more…
As summer is winding down and school is starting again, I thought it might be fun to ask some kids to tell us how they feel about summer ending and share their thoughts about going back to school. This is what they had to say… Ellis, age 13: Just a Read more…
A great deal of retail pharmacy business is over-the-counter (OTC) business, yet most pharmacy school curriculum lack education about many of the frequently asked questions pharmacists face on a daily basis. Some statistics you may find interesting: 93% of U.S. adults prefer to treat their minor ailments with OTC medicines Read more…
We came up with the idea of an Iceberg to represent the magnitude and depth of medication non-adherence. I am sure that if asked, we can all quickly list the direct results of medication non-adherence, but there are so many indirect results of non-adherence that are equally damaging and should not be Read more…
In April, we had a wonderful experience attending the 34th Annual NAPNAP Conference on Pediatric Health Care in Orlando. We came away from the event very excited about our new and emerging partnerships with nurse practitioners from around the country. We had been looking for just the right audience of health Read more…
I recently had the pleasure of reading a great book and I wanted to share it with you. FLAVORx has a close relationship with Elliott M. Sogol, the co-author of The Good Pharmacist. Perhaps you are familiar with this book already, but if not, know that this engaging read has Read more…