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Glucose monitoring can help providers and pharmacists optimize medication management for personalized diabetes care.

Inhaling smoke can have acute effect for people with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or pulmonary fibrosis.

Pharmacists can play an important role in tobacco cessation.

The US health care market faces transformative changes in 2025, as biosimilars, GLP-1s, and new pharmacy economics reshape how benefit managers balance innovation with affordability.

Ruling potentially affects federal ability to regulate pharmacy.

Point-of-care testing implementation could provide valuable data on community respiratory syncytial virus incidence and enhance sentinel surveillance efforts.

Patients recovering from COVID-19 and caregivers reported how some social determinants of health were helpful in their recovery, while others led to difficult social and mental challenges.

The fast-track designation follows the FDA orphan drug designation that was granted for DYNE-101 in September 2023 for the same treatment population.

The Commission aims to provide information for clinical decision making, therapeutic interventions, and public health strategies.

Despite these findings, navacaprant was generally well-tolerated and safe in patients with major depressive disorder.

Memantine/donepezil and everolimus are used to treat dementia of the Alzheimer type and tuberous sclerosis complex-associated subependymal giant cell astrocytoma, respectively.

Patient-centered care involves educating and empowering individuals to take responsibility for their own care.

Biotin supplementation could mitigate manganese-induced damage caused by manganese deficiency and excessive exposure.

Approximately 33.2% of patients who received semaglutide 7.2 mg achieved 25% or more weight loss after 72 weeks.

Patients with multiple sclerosis being treated with glatiramer acetate have an increased risk of experiencing anaphylaxis.

The caps on insulin and yearly out-of-pocket drug costs remain unaffected by this decision.

Engaging with the community, providing transparent information to patients, and using noncoercive methods of encouragement are strategies to reduce COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

Regardless of confounding factors, the ratio of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol predicts the all-cause long-term mortality.

Many treatments are off-label, so pharmacists can educate clinicians and help patients with access.

The study shows benefits when Hecolin (HEV 239; Xiamen Innovax Biotech Co Ltd) is administered in 2 doses, rather than the typical 3-dose regimen.

Pharmacists play a significant role in managing gout by educating patients about the disease and ensuring proper medication adherence to urate-lowering therapy.

At the start of 2025, 590 drug prices changed, with only 7 drugs seeing decreases in wholesale acquisition costs (WAC).

The study found that internalizing and externalizing factors, brain maturation, and decreasing volumes of brain regions were linked to eating disorders.

Investigators found that the polypill treatment improved cardiovascular disease and lowered health care costs.

In addition, pharmacists can screen for potential contraindications and drug-drug interactions.

Esketamine targets glutamate, the most abundant neurotransmitters in the brain.

Jennifer Clements, a clinical professor and the director of pharmacy education at the University of South Carolina, discusses the pharmacists role in diabetes care.