Alana Hippensteele, Lead Editor

As best practices are established throughout the specialty pharmacy’s entire network, better patient outcomes become possible.

Expert notes that any unease around the use of radiopharmaceuticals is just due to a lack of familiarity with the field.

Training pharmacy technicians to evaluate tasks such as appropriate site of care and plan benefits can reduce the workload for the pharmacist.

Certain areas of chapters written by US Pharmacopeia have evolved since being made official and have become standard best practices today.

New recommendations provide some harmonization to make it easier for clinicians to lower the barriers to assessing and identifying eligible patients for the pneumococcal vaccine.

COVID-19 vaccine recommendations have parallel tracks for adults and parallel tracks for children broken down into whether an individual is immunocompromised.

Migraines can have a high cost for the health care system overall, with an estimated $1 billion dollars or more spent in indirect and direct costs.

Expert emphasizes that it is important to acknowledge the critical role of pharmacists in overcoming barriers to vaccinations.

In an analysis of data from 2 patient cohorts included in the phase 2 BYLieve study, investigators found that the data may indicate an increased dependence on the mutant PI3K-α.

Results from a phase 3b study showed that venetoclax combined with azacitidine or decitabine can safely be initiated in a US community-based outpatient setting.

Niraparib shows promise in patients with newly diagnosed advanced epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer.

Only 40% of patients with platinum sensitive disease are receiving a PARP inhibitor in the first-line setting.

Data from the SOLO-1 trial highlight that even with an excellent prognostic group, patients with ovarian cancer still benefit from the use of a PARP inhibitor.

Black women are at an increased risk of dying from cancer of any type compared to White women, but gynecologic cancers have some of the widest survival gaps.

Although poorer prognoses are common for all patients with advanced and recurrent endometrial cancers, minority populations are disproportionately affected with higher rates of mortality.

Several common houseplants present in homes year-round due to their low maintenance requirements and environmental adaptability are far more toxic than many may realize.

The Biden administration announced that it would make 400 million nonsurgical N95 masks for US citizens available free of charge at community health centers and retail pharmacies across the United States.

Study results suggest that infection with Epstein-Barr virus may be the leading cause of multiple sclerosis.

Study data showed that increased levels of infection, inflammation, and metabolic alterations frequently observed in people with depression and psychosis may be a cause rather than a consequence of these disorders.

The emergency use authorization is based on data from the EPIC-HR trial, which showed that the drug significantly reduced the risk of hospitalization or death compared with the placebo.

The drug is available in both oral suspension and tablet dosage forms for use in individuals aged 18 years or younger.

The drug is the first and only oral therapy approved for the treatment of adult patients who are candidates for either phototherapy or systemic therapy.

The agency’s approval follows trial results demonstrating the superior efficacy of the cabotegravir long-acting injectable to a daily oral PrEP option in reducing the risk of infection.

Data support daratumumab as part of a standard of care regimen in the frontline setting for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia are generally divided by those exposed to Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors (BTKi), patients relapsing after venetoclax, and patients relapsing after BTKi and B-cell lymphoma-2 inhibitors.

Alterations in the amino acid profile of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder may support further research into potential new treatment strategies.

The agents that have been evaluated and approved, and those that are coming in the pipeline, make for an exciting time to consider directed therapies.

New treatments show promise for patients with KRAS G12C–mutated disease.

The FDA approved pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib for the first-line treatment of adult patients with advanced RCC.

Erenumab was found to have a sustained efficacy as a monotherapy treatment for episodic migraine that was found to not respond to 2 to 4 prior preventive treatments.