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Mental Health First Aid, administered by the National Council for Behavioral Health, trains participants in mental health literacy, understanding risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns and strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations.

As highly accessible health care professionals, pharmacists have the opportunity to improve medication adherence and health outcomes of patients with bipolar disorder.

"If successful, this has the potential to contribute to a cure for HIV."

The FDA's boxed warning requirement follows several reports of rare, but serious injuries and deaths resulting from various complex sleep behaviors after taking these medicines.

The best natural supplements become drugs.

The organization awarded the title to these heath care professions in recognition of the excellence achieved in pharmacy practice, according to the organization.

The safety and efficacy of the glecaprevir and pibrentasvir in pediatric patients was evaluated during clinical trials of 47 patients with genotype 1, 2, 3 or 4 HCV infection without cirrhosis or with mild cirrhosis.

The new billing system boasts the ability to meet the patient where they are in terms of digital communications and affordability.

Following their analysis of vaccination aversion, experts expand on how health care professionals can educate patients and ensure vaccination.

The CDC is recognizing National Infant Immunization Week as part of the World Immunization Week, an effort of the World Health Organization.

After use of nonpharmacological and multiple blood pressure lowering medications, uncontrolled blood pressure still may be present. Thus, potential for patient to be diagnosed with resistant hypertension.

Novo Nordisk announced the results of the ELLIPSE trial, which examined efficacy and safety and demonstrated superiority of liraglutide (Victoza) injection 1.8 mg vs placebo, in a presentation at the Pediatric Endocrine Society (PES)/Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, on Sunday.

Why did this person develope renal failure?

Adults who experience a heart attack or stroke have an approximately 1 in t3 chance to have another cardiovascular event.

The new initiative, entitled “Remove the Risk,” is part of the agency’s continued efforts to address the nationwide opioid crisis and aims to help decrease unnecessary exposure to opioids and prevent addiction.

Belimumab has been approved for use in adult patients since 2011, and GSK’s application for belimumab use in pediatric patients was granted the FDA’s Priority Review designation.

Etanercept-ykro (Eticovo) is the second etanercept biosimilar to be approved by the FDA, following Sandoz’s etanercept-szzs (Erelzi) in 2016

Last week, National Association of EMS Physicians members joined with other health care professionals on Capitol Hil to bring attention to the issue of drug shortages, as emergency medical facilities across the country are forced to severely restrict use of certain IV fluids, anti-nausea medications, airway management medications, and other essential emergency medications (EEMs).

The day aims to address the importance and urgency of properly disposing unused and expired medication.

According to Teva, this recall was initiated by detection of an impurity – N-Nitroso-N-methyl-4-aminobutyric acid (NMBA) – found in 6 lots of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufactured by Hetero Labs Limited that is above the FDA’s interim acceptable exposure limit.

This weekly video program provides our readers with an in-depth review of the latest news, product approvals, FDA rulings, and more. Our Week in Review is a can't miss for the busy pharmacy professional.

The mission of the Action Collaborative is to convene and catalyze public, private, and nonprofit stakeholders to develop, curate, and disseminate multisector solutions designed to reduce opioid misuse and improve outcomes for individuals, families, and communities affected by the opioid crisis.

The American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists has launched an online continuing education program that serves as a preparatory course for BPS certification in sterile compounding.

One reason to recommend vitamin C is for skin health and chronic wound healing.

According to Purdue Pharma, Nalmefene HCl has a longer duration of action than naloxone, another opioid antagonist currently approved for emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose.

Key opinion leaders address faulty reasoning behind vaccination aversion, for measles or otherwise, given trends in the disease-prevention paradigm.

In clinical trials, AbbVie's risankizumab-rzaa produced high rates of durable skin clearance – most people (82 and 81%) treated with the drug achieved 90% skin clearance (PASI 90) at 1 year, with the majority (56 and 60%) achieving complete skin clearance (PASI 100).

Jaron Stout, PharmD, owner, consulting pharmacist, Collaborative Pharmacy Consultants, discusses how pharmacists can work alongside physicians and other members of a primary care team, and help to relieve 'prescribing cascades.'

With measles cases on the rise globally and with an outbreak of measles in communities right here in the United States, adults should ensure they are adequately vaccinated against this serious and potentially fatal disease.