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Despite being an effective treatment option, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) can cause transient adverse events in pediatrics with primary immunodeficiency, including headache and fever.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can transform rare disease research by leveraging patient data, enhancing evidence generation, and improving communication between patients and health care professionals.

Explore the latest insights on emerging antibody drug conjugates for HER2 breast cancer and real-world management strategies.

During a panel discussion, 3 experts highlighted ways health care professionals and researchers can help provide patient-centered care.

A pharmacist champion enhances access to resmetirom for treating MASH, demonstrating the importance of coordinated specialty care in medication approval.

Emma Murter, PharmD, MPH, and Madison N. Irwin, PharmD, BCPS, discuss the potential role of low-dose naltrexone in managing chronic pain in palliative care, highlighting its anti-inflammatory properties, limited adverse effects, and current evidence gaps—particularly in comparison to traditional opioids and adjuvant analgesics.

In approximately 84% of cases, the mask was able to detect if patients had chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Lacy La Fever, PharmD, MS, discussed outcomes associated with different carboplatin AUC dosing strategies.

Student pharmacists can work toward a better future for patients, themselves, and the profession.

Pharmacists can educate patients on nonpharmacologic strategies that help improve survival outcomes.

Trastuzumab deruxtecan was safe and efficacious prior to treatment with paclitaxel, trastuzumab, and pertuzumab.

Dracey Poore explores the future of biosimilars, emphasizing the need for increased adoption.

Specialty pharmacy experts discuss how emotional support, addressing patient loneliness, and peer-to-patient programs can significantly improve medication adherence and patient care.

Patients with myelofibrosis who stopped ruxolitinib on the first day of conditioning did not show higher rates of acute graft-vs-host disease (GVHD).

The coronary artery disease (CAD) predictive model help health care professionals tailor personalized treatment methods for patients.

UPMC enhances care for patients with heart failure through integrated pharmacy and cardiology team collaboration.

AI transforms pharmacy practice by streamlining workflows and enhancing patient care, while pharmacists adapt to new roles and challenges in health care.

The time frame concept is an underappreciated through line in most planning efforts.

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment for dermatologic conditions shows effectiveness but poses risks of kidney decline and thromboembolism, necessitating careful monitoring.

The agent targets B7-H3, a commonly overexpressed protein in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG).

There was no significant increase in severe adverse events associated with statin use.

About 62.9% of patients with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH) receiving semaglutide experienced resolution of steatohepatitis without worsening of fibrosis.

Abigail Thomas, PharmD, and Lee A. Kral, PharmD, discuss the evolving role of psilocybin-assisted therapy in palliative care, highlighting current evidence, safety concerns, and how pharmacists can guide patient selection, manage drug interactions, and support education as the therapy moves closer to clinical use.

This installment of our series on ADCs and HER2 breast cancer offers key insights about novel agents in clinical trials and management of ADC therapies.

The salvage therapy led to an 80% overall response rate in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Diana Violanti, PharmD, and Pamela S. Moore, PharmD, BCGP, discuss the nuanced use of anticholinergic agents for managing terminal secretions at end of life, highlighting practical considerations, timing, safety concerns such as delirium, and the limited yet evolving evidence supporting their role in palliative care.