Kara Melmed, MD, emphasizes the critical importance of rapid, team-based intervention for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients, with pharmacists playing a key role in blood pressure management.
The biggest advantage of med sync for a community pharmacy is the proactive selection of a date to have all the patient’s chronic medications filled simultaneously.
Pharmacist-led discharge stewardship initiatives have shown promising results.
Nurtec is the first oral calcitonin gene-related peptide antagonist approved for both acute and preventative treatment of migraine.
Stakeholders need to convene honest, actionable discussions about the challenges and the safeguards needed to address appropriate use of artificial intelligence in health care.
Pharmacists play a key role in optimizing drug therapy according to the most updated guidelines, educating patients or prescribers, and monitoring therapeutic outcomes.
New research highlights the long-lasting effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, showing sustained B-cell and antibody responses in health care workers over 3 years.
Students should prepare to be preceptors early in their pharmacy school careers.
Experts presented results that may transform treatment and clinical practice strategies.
From an economic perspective, C. difficile has a staggering financial impact on the US health care system, as well on the patients infected.
The prior authorization process often involves complex transactions and increases the burden not only on physicians and pharmacies, but can also impact patient access.
Patients and other stakeholders need to be able to compare pharmacies based on standardized, transparent metrics with a measurement system to make informed decisions.
Many cases of motion sickness can be managed safely with available OTC products.
Panelists discuss how digital health technologies revolutionize women’s health care through telehealth, mobile apps, and remote monitoring, expanding access, personalization, and proactive medical support.
Data from a recent survey reflect a resounding shift toward the role of pharmacies becoming sites for primary care.
This short story, illustrated by Roth, portrays pharmacists in a variety of settings and was written with the intent to introduce the career in a fun and understandable way for children and inspire kids to pursue their dreams.
Observation time on subsequent injections of subcutaneous daratumumab may be safely removed from institutional policies to reduce chair time.
The estimated cost burden of schizophrenia is more than $150 billion, consisting of direct treatment cost and lost productivity.
With a coordinated, interprofessional team supporting them, patients are empowered with information at the point-of-care to help manage medication therapy problems as they arise.
As new variants of the virus come to rise, it is crucial to continue to address the safety concerns with mass COVID-19 immunizations during the pandemic as well as provide solutions to reduce the exposure and spread of the virus.
The estimated cost burden of schizophrenia is more than $150 billion, consisting of direct treatment cost and lost productivity.
Nicolas Girard, MD, explains the benefits observed in the MARIPOSA clinical trial among patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with amivantamab plus lazertinib.
Pharmacy workflow changes in the preparation of chemotherapy products can reduce patient chair time.
More than ever, confidence in objective, science-based data about therapeutics, such as the COVID-19 vaccine and other health care services, is a shared imperative across the pharmaceutical industry, health care communities, and the American public.
Folate receptor α may be an important treatment target for ovarian tumors.
Persistent chemotherapy drug shortages challenge oncology providers. American Oncology Network employs a drug shortage committee for organized shortage management that involves pharmacists and interdisciplinary stakeholders.
The framework includes 6 domains designed to immediately empower students in community pharmacies.
Embracing artificial intelligence and other tools will be necessary to push the field forward.
Generics play a crucial role in mitigating drug shortages by offering a real alternative for 80% of drugs that are becoming increasingly unavailable in Italy.
Pharmacists can lead to the charge to innovate in both 503A and 503B settings, which are poised to change and grow.