July 2018

Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are often tasked with addressing a wide scope of antimicrobial misuse with limited resources.

Acute pain is one of the most common complaints that lead Americans to access the health care system, resulting in more than 115 million emergency department visits each year.

USP Chapter 800 presents many challenges for pharmacies and other health care settings, especially compounding pharmacies.

Health care providers participating in the 340B program are prohibited from contributing to duplicate discounts, or the scenario that exists when a manufacturer provides a discounted 340B price and a rebate to Medicaid for the same drug.

Heart failure (HF) is estimated to cost Americans $30.7 billion each year, 68% of which is in direct costs and 32% in indirect ones, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) was the seventh most prevalent form of cancer in the United States in 2017, according to the National Cancer Institute.

It is understood that a person’s genetics determines traits such as eye, hair, and skin color and even the predisposition to contracting certain diseases.

In general, there is a lack of adequate evidence from well-designed, controlled clinical trials demonstrating that the use of pharmacogenomic data to individualize drug therapy is directly related to improvements in clinical outcome in nononcology therapeutic areas.