Cold Season Essentials: What to Know about Supplements for Kids
Cough and cold season will bring a flood of questions about supplements to prevent or treat symptoms in kids. Our NatMed article reviews efficacy and safety data for popular supplements, including echinacea, vitamin C, and zinc. For instance, some data suggest that echinacea seems to reduce occurrence of cold symptoms in kids 4 to 12 years old and is generally well tolerated.
Cold Season Essentials: What to Know about Supplements for Kids
Cough and cold season will bring a flood of questions about supplements to prevent or treat symptoms in kids. Our NatMed article reviews efficacy and safety data for popular supplements, including echinacea, vitamin C, and zinc. For instance, some data suggest that echinacea seems to reduce occurrence of cold symptoms in kids 4 to 12 years old and is generally well tolerated.
Pharmacy and Prescriber Podcasts
Medication Talk
Listen to this month’s podcast episode, Considerations with Oral Oncology Meds, as our expert panel discusses critical aspects of managing patients on oral cancer therapies. They review tips for optimizing patient care and share best practices for handling these specialized medications.
All Medication Talk episodes offer CE credit to Pharmacist’s Letter and Prescriber Insights subscribers for 2 years after the episode release date. Go to the CE/CME & Training Organizer and search “podcast” to find available courses.
Upcoming Live CE Webinars for Your Clinicians
Notable New Meds of 2025
Dates: December 10, 13 & 18, 2025
In this month’s live webinar, Notable New Meds of 2025, you’ll hear our editors wrap up the year by highlighting several novel drugs. You’ll listen as our editors review efficacy, safety, and other considerations with these new treatment options.
Available for APRNs, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, PAs, physicians, and RNs accreditation and CE/CME:
- ACCME: 1.00 hour
- ACPE: 1.00 hour – pharmacists and technicians
- ANCC: 1.00 hour
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Putting Principles into Practice
Dates: January 3 and 15, 2025
In this month's live webinar, Antimicrobial Stewardship: Putting Principles into Practice, you'll hear our panelists review important concepts to help decrease antibiotic resistance. And you'll listen as our panelists share their practical approaches on how to limit unnecessary antimicrobial use.
Submit your questions here for a chance to have them answered during the webinar.
Available for APRNs, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, PAs, physicians, and RNs accreditation and CE/CME:
- ACCME: 1.00 hour
- ACPE: 1.00 hour – pharmacists and technicians
- ANCC: 1.00 hour
Pharmacy Essential Updates
Upcoming 2025 Live Webinars
Don’t miss our final Super Saturday event of the year on Saturday, December 13th! This event will offer 4 Pharmacy Essential Update sessions back-to-back starting at 7:00am PST/10:00am EST, allowing subscribers to earn 4 hours of live CE credit. Register now in your CE & Training Organizer.
Also, check out our upcoming Pharmacy Essential live CE webinars. Topics include:
December- Sinusitis
- Opioid antagonists
- Osteoporosis
January
- Male pattern hair loss
- KIDS list updates
- NatMed Spotlight: methylene blue
*Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians can earn 1 Hour of CE for each attended webinar.
The Compounding Chronicles
Holiday Cheer, Not HD Smear – Why HD Wipe Sampling Matters
By Adam West, Course and Curriculum Manager at CriticalPoint
Stop working in the dark! Hazardous drug residue is a dangerous, invisible threat to your staff and facility. This month, The Compounding Chronicles discusses why "turning on the lights" with HD wipe sampling is not just recommended—it's essential.
The Compounding Chronicles
Holiday Cheer, Not HD Smear – Why HD Wipe Sampling Matters
By Adam West, Course and Curriculum Manager at CriticalPoint
Stop working in the dark! Hazardous drug residue is a dangerous, invisible threat to your staff and facility. This month, The Compounding Chronicles discusses why "turning on the lights" with HD wipe sampling is not just recommended—it's essential.
Product Spotlight
Pharmacy technicians are essential to safe, efficient care delivery—but turnover, onboarding gaps, and limited advancement opportunities continue to challenge pharmacy operations.
The solution? Invest in Pharmacy Technician Learning & Practice Suite; a structured, scalable approach to technician development powered by Pharmacy Technicians University and Pharmacy Technician’s Letter.
- Speed up time-to-productivity with bootcamp-to-apprenticeship onboarding.
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- Standardize training across sites to eliminate variability in technician preparation.
Whether you're hiring new techs or strengthening your current team, this suite delivers the tools and structure needed to build a reliable, high-performing workforce.
Pharmacy Workforce Planning: Risk, Readiness & Retention
Watch this recorded webinar to hear TRC Healthcare’s in-house experts share strategies and insights to help decision-makers across hospital and retail pharmacy settings prepare for what’s next in 2026.
*This webinar does not offer CE credits for watching.
Pharmacy Law & Regulatory Update
Legislative Session Summary 2025
Check out Bula’s 2025 Legislative Session Summary for what you need to know and how to stay ahead going into 2026. In 2025, pharmacy legislation across the U.S. continued to evolve rapidly, reflecting a national push toward expanding pharmacist authority, enhancing access to care, and modernizing compliance frameworks. From prescriptive privileges and technician scope to telehealth integration and reproductive healthcare protections, state legislatures introduced and passed hundreds of bills with direct implications for pharmacy operations.
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