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Study finds that 12 particular types of bacteria appeared more often in the gut microbiomes of men with lots of active vitamin D.

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine vials are supposed to hold 5 doses, but using a sixth or seventh dose could expand the supply by up to 40%.

Pharmacy Times® interviewed John Beckner, the senior director of strategic initiatives at the National Community Pharmacists Association, on how pharmacists can help people come back for the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Early experiments through the 19th century theorized local injection with human rabies immunoglobulin at the wound site provided better effects at neutralizing the virus.

Pharmacy Times® interviewed John Beckner, the senior director of strategic initiatives at the National Community Pharmacists Association, on some of the challenges community pharmacies may need to manage when receiving and administering COVID-19 vaccines.

Women have a 20% higher risk than men of dying or facing heart failure, and they typically experience NSTEMI heart attacks.

Pharmacy Times® interviewed John Beckner, the senior director of strategic initiatives at the National Community Pharmacists Association, on the work needed to prepare for the arrival and administration of COVID-19 vaccines.

Decreases in prescription opioid volume over the past 9 years have been driven by changes in clinical use, regulatory, and reimbursement policies, and in progressively more restrictive legislation enacted since 2012.

Results of Ellume’s rapid at-home COVID-19 test are sent to a smartphone in 15 minutes or less.

There are many benefits to adopting and integrating new technological methods for hosting pharmacy organization events.

Tips and tricks to make mask-wearing less problematic during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Functional medicine has grown in popularity throughout the years because of how it helped many patients live a better quality of life.

Although cytokine storms are usually associated with severe COVID-19, study indicates less severe disease may also be at risk of cytokine storm.

Beta-carotene is the bioactive compound that gives carrots their orange color, with studies in humans and mice showing the conversion of beta-carotene to vitamin A as reducing bad cholesterol in the blood.

Study aims to increase patient access to clinical care delivered in community pharmacies by leveraging the expanded roles of pharmacy technicians.

Among a subset of participants in the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, 0.63% of individuals in the vaccinated group had hypersensitivity-related adverse events that may represent allergic reactions.

The FDA is expected to review the safety and efficacy data package from Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine candidate on December 17, which could lead to an EUA being issued this week.

As administration of COVID-19 begins, pharmacies are preparing to vaccinate millions of people, not only once but twice.

Learn how you and your staff can help patients differentiate between common cough/cold symptoms and COVID-19 while also offering additional educational resources.

Pharmacy Times® interviewed Signe Pringle, the assistant secretary for the Maryland Department of Commerce, on a signed partnership between Quebec and Maryland to foster collaboration around health science research during COVID-19 and beyond.

Supreme Court ruling clears the way for states to pass laws that protect pharmacies from predatory reimbursement practices by PBMs.

Individuals who reported zero or fewer live births and those who reported many live births had markers of quicker aging than those who reported 3 or 4 births.

Distribution of the first 2.9 million doses of the COVID--19 vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech are expected to begin within hours of the FDA’s decision.

A member of the FDA’s expert advisory committee who voted in favor of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine said that distribution of the first vaccines to high priority populations in the United States could begin as early as Monday.

Genetic predisposition is only part of the pre-eclampsia risk.

Medication nonadherence results in greater health care spending and poorer patient health outcomes.

There are compelling reasons to use sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, according to a session at the 2020 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition.

Paracelsus referred to the drug as the “stone of immortality,” which may have been the impetus for his fine-tuning it further. Later, Thomas Sydenham created his own version in the 1600s with the important addition of alcohol.

The objective of the study was to increase awareness among pharmacists about products for which unfounded claims have been made regarding prevention of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) infections.

Supreme Court decision establishes that states do have the right to regulate pharmacy benefit managers in managed care organizations.