Educating patients about lifestyle changes, strict medication adherence, and home blood pressure monitoring can help them to avert complications from this often silent condition.
The United States is in desperate need of an overhaul to the current health care system.
Diabetes is a disease that affects a person's life each day by having a negative effect on quality of life and creating a financial burden for patients and families.
Although naloxone delivery devices are proven to reduce opioid overdoses, challenges persist in increasing the use of these devices in the community setting.
Examination of changes in utilization, dose adequacy, and duration associated with market entry of the oral chelator deferasirox as a potential substitute for parenteral deferoxamine.
How can a multisite health system create a system pharmacy and therapeutics committee (P & T) that is meaningful for its acute care hospitals and infusion centers?
Medicare Part D plans can change their cost-sharing structure and formularies every year. As such, beneficiaries should annually reevaluate plan offerings to minimize their out-of-pocket costs.
The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly pushed traditional face-to-face instruction within schools of pharmacy into a fully remote learning environment.
This study seeks to determine the economic effects of warfarin discontinuation in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
Care delivery is shifting to models that reward patient engagement and ensure that their voices are heard by the health care team.
Students at Cedarville University School of Pharmacy are helping out the Cedar Medical Clinic in Ghana by raising money for equipment and creating formularies.
Patients with schizophrenia and other disorders who take atypical antipsychotics should be monitored for an increased risk for diabetes.
This study developed and tested predictive models of opioid abuse using Humana commercial membership data that were subsequently tested in the Truven commercial data set.
With the evolution and growth of specialty pharmacies, so too did services provided by hubs and the places where they were situated.
Our research focuses on the clinical and economic outcomes of patients receiving care from a payer-designated specialty pharmacy program compared with regular retail pharmacies.
The authors concluded that costs were significantly higher for women with migraines than men and that costs resulting from migraine treatment increased as the patients got older.
Pharmacists should be aware of what drug repurposing is and how it occurs as due to the vast amount of opportunities that exist.
Today's youth risk becoming the first generation not to outlive their parents. It is not too late, however, to halt and reverse this trend.
Pharmacists are in the perfect position to influence patients and improve outcomes with medication therapy management.
For the majority of children and adolescents receiving a psychotropic medication there is a valid medical diagnosis.
Medications that influence libido have mechanisms that affect the biologic or hormonal processes responsible for sexual arousal, and often affect patients' quality of life.
For the majority of children and adolescents receiving a psychotropic medication there is a valid medical diagnosis.
In 1920, Johnson & Johnson created the slogan “Your Druggist is More Than a Merchant. Try the Drug Store First.”