Aimee Simone, Pharmacy Times

The new process takes into account the efficacy, risk, cost, and societal benefit of a given specialty drug in determining whether it should be added to the hospital's formulary.

Use of several statins appears to be associated with an increased risk of developing diabetes, and researchers advise that this risk be balanced against the drugs' cardiovascular benefits.

COPD patients who took azithromycin daily for a year were re-hospitalized at significantly lower rates than those who took placebo.

A hypertension treatment program in which patients received online guidance from pharmacists led to improved blood pressure control even a year after the program ended.

Just 17% of children who had lived in the United States for up to 2 years had asthma or allergies, compared with 27% of those who had lived in the country for 10 years or longer.

Over the past year, promising studies have been published dealing with autism and early intervention, pharmacologic treatment, early diagnosis, and delayed speaking abilities.

A study including more than half a million Danish children finds that children born to mothers who took the antiepileptic drug valproate during pregnancy were much more likely to develop autism.

Autism is more commonly diagnosed in children than juvenile diabetes, AIDS, and cancer combined, but researchers have a long way to go in understanding the condition's cause.

David Dubin had a family history of colon cancer, but failed to get screened for it when young. Now he's on a mission to make sure others don't make the same mistake.

Regular, timely screenings for colorectal cancer are essential for catching the disease early, when it can be treated with high rates of success.

Pharmacists have rapidly become among the most common deliverers of the flu vaccine, but their full potential as immunizers has not been tapped, the NACDS argued in a statement.

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, making it the perfect time to ensure that patients understand the risk factors and importance of screening for the disease.

Pharmacists will use an abbreviated version of Rx for Change to help their patients quit smoking.

More than half a million Americans die from heart disease each year, but increased attention to its risk factors can help reduce this number.

Patients see pharmacists as their neighbors and as trusted health care professionals, putting them in a prime position to offer advice regarding heart disease prevention.

The Million Hearts initiative, launched by in September 2011, aims to address the country's heart health crisis by preventing 1 million heart attacks and strokes over a 5-year period.

National Wear Red Day, held on February 1 this year, encourages women-and men-to wear red to raise awareness of heart disease in women.

January has been Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, but this serious yet easily preventable condition deserves attention all year.

Getting vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) is more important than ever, but vaccination rates remain low for teenagers in the United States.