Walgreens is rolling out a new education initiative to support pharmacy technicians interested in becoming pharmacists. PharmStart is an online education program that covers the cost of prerequisite ...

In the United States, the number of Americans who have chronic health conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes, has gone up. This is in part because the United States’ population is skewing ...

Since 1995, the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board has granted more than 876,000 pharmacy technician certifications. In 2025, the PTCB administered nearly 50,000 exams for these certifications.

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

The Pharmacy Technician Society, a national membership organization exclusively dedicated to elevating pharmacy technician roles in patient care, has launched its operations. Created by the American ...