Despite medical recommendations, many patients do not consistently remain adherent to their prophylactic schedule.
In a Pharmacy Times® Insights series, 2 experts agree that communication is incredibly valuable when discussing guidelines and recommendations.
The FDA has expanded the approval for enzalutamide (Xtandi) to include the treatment of men with chemotherapy-naive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Changes in antidiabetic medication cost sharing due to a value-based pharmacy access program led to increased use of generic and brand antidiabetic oral medications and insulin.
Working as a health systems pharmacist is a well-rounded career and offers job fulfillment, satisfaction, and great earning potential.
The ASTHMA-CAT, an online, patient-based assessment measure, may facilitate asthma care management.
By eliminating waste in the prescription drug supply chain, Caterpillar lowered total drug costs while copayment tiers remained unchanged.
Match day can be one of the most uplifting, validating, and encouraging of days.
The annual National Association of Specialty Pharmacy annual meeting shed light on the significant role these caregivers play in patient care.
All primary and ranked secondary endpoints of the study were met at week 16, which were sustained or improved through week 24 and were coupled with patient-reported improvements compared with placebo in treating psoriatic arthritis.
Tracey D. Brown will welcome 16,000 attendees to the premier diabetes health care conference in her first month as chief executive of the American Diabetes Association.
Approximately 1.2 million individuals live with HIV/AIDS in the United States. This population is at an increased risk of opportunistic infections (OIs), an area where pharmacists have significant potential to make meaningful interventions.
For patients with psoriasis and/or psoriatic arthritis, actual-to-expected dosing ratios and costs were lower for etanercept than for ustekinumab.
Despite triptan availability as a migraine-specific rescue, the global burden of migraine morbidity remains high.
The Illinois pharmacy chain has attained success as a result of good planning and successful marketing strategies.
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As healthcare spending continues to rise, more employers, managed care organizations, and pharmacy benefit managers are implementing novel pharmacy benefit designs and formulary management policies to control drug spending.
Over the past 2 decades, the cancer death rate has drastically declined in the United States, falling 23% from its 1991 peak. This translates to 1.7 million lives saved.
The FDA has approved the monoclonal antibody mepolizumab as a treatment for patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.
Isatuximab-ifrc is the third monoclonal antibody approved for the treatment of R/R MM.
Significant factors for 2011 prescription utilization include the recession, change in employment rate, new generic and brand launches, and changes in Baby Boomers' retirement plans.
Payer response to new entrants to the multiple sclerosis (MS) market is mixed as some believe that there remain meaningful, major unmet needs in the MS category, according to The Zitter Group's Spring 2011 Managed Care Biologics and Injectables Index.
The COVID-19 pandemic made a convincing argument to employers of having a robust and sound communication strategy to their employees.
Diabetes is a complex disease affecting 29.1 million individuals in the United States.