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There are 8 million cancer survivors who may have limitations in their daily functional ability.

April Gill, chief commercial officer at Tabula Rasa HealthCare, discusses how to identify underserved patients and address social determinants of health.

Investigators from the Barts Cancer Institute discovered that AMP-activated protein kinase is an essential sensor for tumor dissemination.

People with less severe symptoms of insomnia still had a 16% increased risk of stroke compared to people with no symptoms.

Positive data from the phase 3 A DUE study demonstrated that the investigational combination therapy of macitentan 10 mg and tadalafil 40 in a single tablet improved pulmonary hemodynamics compared to the same drugs as monotherapies.

Christina Madison speaks with Sandra Leal, PharmD, fromCVS Health, about advocating for patients and how that impacts public health.

The meeting aims to bring together pharmacists to discuss solutions for responding to the rapidly evolving evidence and needs for effective implementation.

It’s time for pharmacies to take a page out of the books of hospitals and tech companies by expanding and streamlining their use of contingent labor.

The combination also reduced the risk of developing distant metastasis or death by 65% in patients with high-risk stage 3/4 melanoma.

Levels of troponin were higher in people who had type 2 diabetes for a longer period than people with healthy blood levels.

Real-world metrics demonstrate that using health-system specialty pharmacies (HSSPs) means everyone wins: health systems, clinicians, and patients.

CCR5 mutation creates a challenge for HIV to infect more cells, thereby creating resistance to the virus.

Trial results support 5.4 mg/kg of trastuzumab deruxtecan as the optimal dose in individuals with HER2+ metastatic colorectal cancer.

The proposed indications for milvexian include stroke prevention after an acute ischemic stroke or high-risk transient ischemic attack; recent acute coronary syndrome; and atrial fibrillation.

The proportion of participants with cytomegalovirus disease was 10% with letermovir and 12% with valganciclovir.

Findings highlight the potential efficacy of combining 2 novel bispecific therapies, teclistamab-cqyv and talquetamab, which target distinct antigens on myeloma cells.

The phase 3 S1826 trial is the largest Hodgkin lymphoma study in NCTN history.

Treatment for community-acquired pneumococcal disease is dependent on patient-specific factors, whereas prevention with vaccinations is dependent on age and comorbidities.

In data presented at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, amivantamab-vmjw plus lazertinib demonstrated promise as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer.

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab combination improved overall survival, with 21% of individuals with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer treated with the combination and 2 cycles of chemotherapy alive compared to 16% with chemotherapy alone.

Positive findings in patients with advanced high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer were presented during an oral presentation at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.

Treatment with Injectafer significantly improved exercise capacity compared to placebo in a randomized clinical trial in adult patients with heart failure.

Rebyota is a live biotherapeutic product that is unfamiliar to many pharmacists and other health care providers with different steps in the eventual administration process.

Current standard of care gives 2 poor options to patients, neither of which cure grade 2 gliomas.

Updated overall survival and safety profile data from the global phase 3 ADAURA trial provide practice-changing findings with adjuvant osimertinib (Tagrisso; AstraZeneca) in patients with resected EGFR-mutated stage IB–IIIA NSCLC.

Biliary tract cancers have become the model for precision oncology because of its complex molecular landscape.

FR alpha expression is limited on normal cells, but upregulated on cancers such as ovarian, endometrial, and triple-negative breast cancers.

Fecal microbiota transplant from responders to non-responders was able to rescue immune checkpoint inhibition use in patients with melanoma, with 40% of patients showing clinical benefit.