Pharmacy Focus Podcast: Independent Rx Forum- Episode 5

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Ali A. Habib, MD, clinical professor of neurology at the University of California, Irvine, discusses what the hospitalization findings mean for patients and why they should be viewed as supportive evidence

Emergency and ICU pharmacists would be most likely to see pneumonic plague. An expert reviews first-line agents, alternatives, and postexposure prophylaxis.

A former residency program director unpacks why this debate keeps resurfacing, and why some reasons people give for skipping residency may not hold up the way they think they do.

The FDA approval of pritelivir offers an oral treatment for refractory HSV lesions in immunocompromised adults, with drug interactions creating an important role for pharmacists.

Weltruza, the first subcutaneous long-acting injectable (LAI) formulation of olanzapine, requires no loading doses, oral supplementation, or postinjection monitoring.

Eric Lawitz, MD, explains how pharmacists can raise liver risk with patients with obesity and why a FIB-4 score from routine blood work is a good first step.

Sometimes, a breakthrough matters not only because of what it does for patients today, but because of what it makes possible for tomorrow.

Pharmacogenomic-guided prescribing uses genetic data to protect patients from dangerous toxicities and get them the right drug at the right dose from the start.