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Adherence Challenges Persist in COPD
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease often have difficulty adhering to medications, which can lead to hospitalization.
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2017 National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support
The National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES) have been updated for the first time in 3 years to reflect the latest recommended standards for diabetes care.
Backing Up: Addressing Adherence Barriers in COPD
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often have difficulty adhering to medications, leading to exacerbations, and often hospitalization.
Pharmaceutical Care Improves Outcomes in Patients With HIV
Pharmacist intervention on drug-related problems in HIV outpatients can alleviate adherence issues.
Pharmaceutical Care Visits Improve Outcomes in Patients with HIV
HIV continues to be a global problem, and researchers from Brazil have joined the growing chorus of voices in emphasizing that pharmacist involvement in care for patients with HIV improves outcomes.
How Can Pharmacists Improve Flu Vaccination Rates in Patients with COPD?
Pharmacists can play a crucial role in promoting the flu vaccine to these patients by recognizing the characteristics of those who do not seek vaccinations.
Type 2 Diabetes Debate: Metformin Versus GLP-1 Receptor Agonists
Is it time to change the type 2 diabetes treatment paradigm?
Got the Flu? Stay Home!
Pharmacists have become champions of influenza immunization, advertising heavily, recruiting patients, and administering these life-saving vaccines in a wide array of settings.
Immunizations in Renal Transplant Candidates and Patients: Busting Barriers
Many individuals who have end-stage renal disease (ESRD) fail to receive the vaccinations that they need.
Workhorse Vitamin: A Primer on Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is a workhorse vitamin.
How to Improve Treatment of Comorbidities in HIV
Increasingly, individuals with HIV also have comorbid conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and diabetes.
Comorbidities and HIV: Time to Mainstream Care
The journal AIDS Care has published a systematic review that looks at the opportunity to provide coordinated care for HIV and non-communicable conditions.
Is There a Pharmacist in the House? PCPs Love their Pharmacists
Pharmacists’ roles are expanding from traditional retail settings, allowing them to be more involved in patient care than ever before.
Antioxidant Supplementation and Diabetic Kidney Disease
Diabetes' propensity to cause metabolic derangement is directly responsible for a looming epidemic of diabetic kidney disease (DKD). And left unchecked, DKD can progress to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).
Pumps Plus: Automated Insulin Delivery Systems Coming Soon
How can we reduce the burden of type 1 diabetes? Automated insulin delivery systems could be the answer.
Immunization Laws Around the Nation
Many areas of medicine that intersect with law and immunizations are associated with a very specific set of laws across the nation.
Vitamin D and Cardiovascular Disease: Jury Is Still Out
Fat-soluble vitamin D seems to be the vitamin we talk about most these days. In particular, researchers, clinicians, and pharmacists all have an opinion about whether vitamin D supplementation is necessary or wise.
Retention and HIV Care
Can a 1-Hour Intervention Help?
Underserved Communities: Rampant Polypharmacy, Opportunity to Improve Care
Approximately 72% of Medicare beneficiaries have at least 2 chronic medical conditions (most often diabetes, heart disease, and asthma/COPD), and roughly 40% have 4 or more.
HIV Scoring System or Algorithm to Increase Appropriate Counseling?
Finding ways to triage patients and identify those with the greatest need is important.
Pharmacy Students and Student Preceptors Boost Immunization Rates
Pharmacists working in eastern North Carolina counties have developed a program to improve immunization among low income, uninsured patients.
Managing Drug Interactions in Patients With HIV
Screening for drug interactions is a challenge when a patient with HIV presents with several prescriptions.
HIV: The Quick and Dirty of Drug Interactions
We asked Jeffrey R. Aeschlimann, PharmD, an infectious disease specialist who is on the faculty of the University of Connecticut's Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, to answer questions about drug interactions in patients with HIV.
Key Risk Factors in Stopping Spread of HIV
HIV clinical staff should ask questions about each patient’s relationships and sexual activity regularly and redundantly.
Telemedicine May Improve Diabetes Treatment for Patients in Rural Areas
Pharmacists help underserved adults with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes who live in rural areas.
Telemedicine: A Potential Solution for Patients with Diabetes in Rural Areas
A telemedicine diabetes program was well received by patients and effective at improving patient outcomes, according to a study published online in the North Carolina Medical Journal.
Relationship Status: An Important Risk Factor for Spreading HIV
In 2015, 960,000 people were newly-infected with HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Coenzyme Q10 and L-carnitine Supplementation and Myocardial Infarction: Improved Quality of Life
More than 1 million Americans suffer myocardial infarctions annually.
No Spleen, No Problem: Using Community Pharmacists to Increase Vaccination Rates after Splenectomy
The journal Research and Social and Administrative Pharmacy has published a study about the pharmacist's role in vaccinating asplenic patients.
The Pharmacist's Role in Evaluating Complementary, Alternative Medicine
Use of natural, herbal, vitamin, and traditional cures available in grocery stores, gas stations, drugstores, health food stores, and from the Internet continues to grow.