UB School of Pharmacy to Host Pharmacy Fair

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Pharmacists’ Association of Western New York and the Western New York Society of Health Systems Pharmacists, will present a pharmacy fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19, in the Walden Galleria, Cheektowaga.

The fair will be free and open to the public.

Visitors may bring their medications for personalized evaluation by registered pharmacists and pharmacy students.

Information on diabetes; hypertension, including a free blood-pressure measurement; smoking cessation, and over-the-counter drugs, such as cough, cold and flu medicines, also will be available.

The event will include a video puppet show for children that focuses on poison prevention.