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GDA-501, a novel, genetically modified, nicotinamide natural killer pre-clinical cell therapy.

Pharmacists can provide their knowledge to female patients but also ensure women are adequately represented in research.

Belantamab mafodotin-blmf is a first-in-class, anti-B-cell maturation antigen therapy indicated for adults with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least 4 prior therapies.

Despite evidence of a higher risk of myocarditis or pericarditis with COVID-19 vaccination, immunization should still be recommended because the benefits likely outweigh the harms, study shows.

Pharmacists can offer advice on nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic prevention and treatment strategies.

Direct-acting antivirals have high efficacy for hepatitis C, however, patients with advanced liver scarring are at risk for the development of secondary diseases.

New continuous glucose monitor systems provide additional support and quality of life improvements for patients with diabetes.

Updated prescribing guidelines issued in 2014 and 2016 may explain lower use of opioids by 11.7% among patients with chronic, nonsurgical pain.

States with a higher prevalence of Medicaid patients with type 2 diabetes were found to have lower use ratio of glucose-lowering agents with known cardiovascular benefits.

Under specific circumstances and criteria, they are adjustable to approximate OS in selected populations of Canadian patients who have advanced non–small cell lung cancer.

Analysis indicates that a 25-mg dose reduces the condition scores significantly more than a 1mg dose over a 3-week period, but the 10-mg dose did not yield the same results.

Working for the USPHS offers unique compensation and quality-of-life benefits.

This Veteran’s Day, NCPA CEO B. Douglas Hoey, PharmD, MBA, discusses the implications of Express Scripts’ elimination of the pharmacy of choice option for TRICARE beneficiaries in their contract with the Department of Defense.

A new study suggests that 30.5% of US adults lose out on 1 hour or more of sleep due to disturbances.

Tremelimumab-actl (Imjudo) plus durvalumab (Imfinzi) and platinum-based chemotherapy approved for the treatment of adults with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer without sensitizing EGFR mutation or ALK aberrations.

Intravenous immunoglobulin is used for several autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, although researchers have not fully understood its specific mechanisms.

FDA approves brentuximab vedotin for the treatment of patients aged 2 years and older with previously untreated, high-risk classical Hodgkin lymphoma, in combination with doxorubicin, vincristine, etoposide, prednisone, and cyclophosphamide.

The most common cause of death for patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is cardiovascular disease, but it also increases the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma and may surpass hepatitis B and C as the leading cause of this cancer.

Cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy is a progressive neurodegenerative disease causes irreversible neurologic decline and can result in functional disabilities, such hearing loss and cortical blindness.

Pharmacists and health care providers should be familiar with the management of xylazine overdose and withdrawal.

Study shows there are 2.5 times more breast cancer survivors since the last estimate was conducted in 2007.

A physician working in the field of palliative care discusses how pharmacists and physicians can work together to help address issues pertaining to polypharmacy through deprescribing.

FDA committee voted that trial data do not support the benefits outweighing the risks in patients aged 12 to 17 years and children aged 4 to 11 years for the use of albuterol/budesonide in the treatment of asthma.

One day soon, including pharmacogenomics testing for all patients will be essential for precise prescribing.

Improvement is seen with a higher suspicion of disease and extended timelines, analysis demonstrates.

The book aims to make the vaccination process less scary and allow more children to be vaccinated.

Katrina Skinner is the president of the Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The framework includes 6 domains designed to immediately empower students in community pharmacies.

These show promise as markers to help identify individuals with the conditions and develop targeted therapeutic options.

Research indicates that administering vitamin C to dendritic cells produces more consistent activation of genes involved in the immune response.