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April 29th 2025
Integrating community pharmacists into specialty pharmacy care can enhance patient access, address physician shortages, and expand pharmacists' roles in delivering high-quality clinical services, according to experts at Asembia’s AXS25 Summit.
CMS Action Aims to Lower Prescription Drug Prices, Increase Cost Transparency
May 17th 2019The final rule requires Part D plans to adopt tools that provide clinicians with information that they can discuss with patients on out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs at the time a prescription is written.
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Pharmacy Times Demonstrates Pharmacy Industry Leadership in 2019 KANTAR Readership Study
May 16th 2019The annual KANTAR Readership Study encompasses readership habits of thousands of pharmacists and pharmacy professionals, working in the areas of chain, independent retail pharmacies and health-system pharmacies.
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Point-of-Sale Solution Aims to Deliver Accurate Drug Discount Compliance
May 15th 2019This first-to-market point-of-sale platform combines industry expertise, artificial intelligence and comprehensive, deep-data libraries to seek out and identify errors so that the right discounts are applied to the right transaction.
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Screening Recommendations for Colon Cancer
May 14th 2019Amber Draper, PharmD, BCOP, clinical pharmacist, Winship Cancer Institute in Georgia discusses current recommendations for colon cancer screening. This video was filmed at the 2019 Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association Annual Conference in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Novel Intravenous Immune Globulin Product Relaunched with FDA Approval
May 14th 2019The novel intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) product is indicated for individuals with primary humoral immunodeficiency disease (PIDD), which includes X-linked and congenital agammaglobulinemia, common variable immunodeficiency, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, and severe combined immunodeficiency.
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Medication for Thrombocytopenia, Aplastic Anemia Recalled Due to Potential Peanut Contamination
May 13th 2019Novartis has issued a voluntary recall of 3 lots of Promacta (eltrombopag) 12.5 mg for oral suspension to the consumer level, due to a risk of potential peanut flour contamination that occurred at a third-party contract manufacturing site.
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Immunizations: Active Versus Passive
May 11th 2019Mary Koslap‐Petraco, DNP, PNPPC‐BC, CPNP, FAANP, Stony Brook University School of Nursing, discusses the difference between active and passive immunizations, and how they work to prevent disease. This video was filmed at the 2019 National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAP NAP) annual meeting in New Orleans.
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Drug Receives FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Treating Individuals with Schizophrenia
May 11th 2019The designation is intended to expedite the development and review of drugs for serious or life-threatening conditions when preliminary clinical evidence indicates that the drug may demonstrate substantial improvement over available therapy on one or more clinically significant endpoints.
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