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Part 3 in a series outlining 5 crucial steps pharmacies can take to enhance patient engagement and lower operational costs.

Health care professionals need to work closely with patients in understanding polypharmacy and the risk/benefit of pharmacotherapy.

Analysis supports positive lifestyle habits, such as exercising and quitting smoking, investigators say.

Investigators from NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine sound alarm on treatment gap and suggest ways to remove barriers, as opioid overdoses soar to historic levels.

A new study predicts significant increases in cardiovascular issues in the United States, highlighting racial and ethnic inequality of future patients.

Pharmacists can play an important role in helping ensure compliance with prescribed medications, which can help seniors maintain their health and quality of life while aging at home.

Cangrelor (Kengreal) is indicated as an adjunct to percutaneous coronary intervention for reducing the risk of periprocedural myocardial infarction, repeat coronary revascularization, and stent thrombosis.

Globally, more than 40 million patients are currently taking an ACE inhibitor, primarily for the treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure.

Immunoinformatics allows researchers to develop vaccines without microbial culturing, thus saving time and money.

Tardive dyskinesia is often caused by the use of dopamine receptor blocking agents, most commonly antipsychotics, for at least a few months.

A systemic review found that recombinant zoster vaccination is more cost effective than no vaccine or the previously available zoster vaccine live.

Researchers recommend having a low clinical threshold for the diagnosis of Hashimoto’s encephalopathy in patients who reveal no apparent cause for their altered mental status, given the heterogenous nature of the condition’s presentation.

Last year, the majority of new drug approvals were for small molecules, including treatments for HIV, cancer, infections, heart and kidney disease, and neurological disorders.

The approval is based on results of the phase 3 study, ARASENS, that demonstrated a statistically significant increase in overall survival, the trial’s primary endpoint.

Preliminary data from the ongoing dose-escalation portion of the clinical trial, show dose-dependent anti-tumor activity when combined with standard-dose Libtayo.

Use of hormone therapy to treat prostate cancer may require more consideration by health care providers as new study shows the therapy may increase the risk of heart disease.

Based on overall response rate, acalabrutinib in tablet form is now FDA approved for all approved indications, enabling co-administration alongside a proton pump inhibitor.

Health care workers who got 4 total doses against COVID-19, 2 doses of which are boosters, experienced more than 10% lower breakthrough infection rate than those with only 3 total doses.

Dalteparin sodium (Fragmin) is indicated for the extended treatment of symptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE) to reduce VTE recurrence in adult patients with cancer, as well as several other indications.

Revised plan incorporates lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and recent advances in technology, aligning with the Department of Health and Human Services’ roadmap.

The median overall survival of the lenvatinib monotherapy arm is longer than that observed in previous clinical trials evaluating it as a monotherapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

The B-Clear study investigated the efficacy and safety of 12- or 24-weeks treatment with bepirovirsen in individuals with chronic hepatitis B.

Receiving a human papillomavirus vaccine and local surgical treatment could reduce the risk of recurring cervical lesions by 57%.

A recent study revealed that social activities like gardening or getting a college degree could improve cognition in older age, which could possibly prevent Alzheimer disease.

The FDA approved a new drug that treats unresectable and metastatic HER2-low breast cancer, giving patients with this new subtype a treatment beyond chemotherapy.

Xenia Tigno, PhD, and Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, discuss how the pandemic impacted women’s careers in medical research and other medical fields.

Daptomycin for injection (Cubicin) is indicated for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections and Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections.

The move would help ensure timely access to vaccination following the declaration of monkeypox as a public health emergency.

Michael Ganio, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FASHP, senior director of pharmacy practice and quality at ASHP, discussed the declaration of monkeypox as a public health emergency

Study finds that only 19.6% of US adults have high cardiovascular health, whereas 62.5% have moderate health and 17.9% have low.