May 2016

There is growing confidence that health information technology investments will begin to meet expectations.

Approximately 73.5 million adults in the United States have a high level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.

It is estimated that 46 individuals die of prescription opioid overdoses every day in the United States.

The patient's heart failure needs to be classified to determine the appropriate treatment strategy.

Atrial fibrillation, the most common cardiac arrhythmia, is strongly associated with increased morbidity and mortality and has become a major global public health challenge.

I wonder if health-system pharmacists who read and hear about the growing opioid epidemic react as if this is someone else's issue.

Closed-system transfer devices are systems used to transfer medication from 1 reservoir to another while limiting the potential for drug aerosolization, drug contamination, sharps exposure, and hazardous drug exposure.

Rapivab was approved by the FDA in December 2014 to treat acute and uncomplicated influenza in adults.