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In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Christine Brown, PhD, and John Williams, PhD, discuss preclinical research on a meditope-enabled platform designed to redirect CAR T cells toward additional tumor targets and support their expansion after infusion.

Panelists explain how health systems can use the National Kidney Foundation’s CKDintercept initiative to build interdisciplinary, value-based kidney care, starting with small patient groups and setting time-bound treatment goals.

The cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) framework can replace siloed care with comanagement across specialties, centered on an engaged patient and supported by making fuller use of clinical pharmacists.

The innovation that frees a patient from the infusion chair is the innovation that asks pharmacists to replace, from a distance, everything that chair used to catch.

Investigational inhaled stem cells for COPD raise questions about lasting clinical benefit and the pharmacy controls needed to deliver a living-cell product through a nebulizer.

A suspected plague death in Russia has renewed attention on the rare infection. Here's how to spot pneumonic plague, and which antibiotics the CDC recommends.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Abdulkader Rahmo, PhD, discusses investigational inhaled cell therapy for COPD, the evidence needed to establish lasting clinical benefit, and pharmacists’ potential role in its delivery.

The cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic framework puts the urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio at the center of risk stratification, so that a positive result leads to earlier treatment rather than just being documented.

A panel of 4 health care professionals describe how their health systems adopted the race-free 2021 CKD-EPI equations.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, City of Hope researchers discuss a preclinical platform designed to redirect CAR T cells after infusion and how pharmacists could help bring this adaptable approach into clinical practice.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Paula Rodríguez-Otero, MD, PhD, discusses less frequent linvoseltamab dosing, CRS monitoring, and how community practices could prepare for its potential use in high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma.

Pharmacists can explain the evidence supporting the intramuscular injection, address specific concerns, and help families understand what is known—and what is not known—about oral vitamin K.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Paula Rodríguez-Otero, MD, PhD, discusses patient selection for LINKER-SMM1 and weighs the potential benefits of early linvoseltamab treatment against infection risk in high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma.

William J. Peppard, PharmD, explains how emerging suzetrigine findings after knee arthroplasty connect opioid stewardship with functional recovery and the pharmacist’s role in ensuring treatment access.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, LINKER-SMM1 study investigator Paula Rodríguez-Otero, MD, PhD, a hematologist at Clínica Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, explains how researchers selected high-risk patients and how she weighs infections against the potential to prevent progression to active disease.

Study coauthor William J. Peppard, PharmD, discusses which patients may benefit most from suzetrigine after knee replacement and how pharmacists can address cost and access barriers to postoperative treatment.

Jose Bazan, MD, discusses how FES PET could refine patient selection for SBRT in ER-positive metastatic breast cancer and highlights considerations for coordinating imaging, radiation, and systemic therapy.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, William J. Peppard, PharmD, pain stewardship coordinator at Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin and coauthor of a retrospective suzetrigine study, discusses findings suggesting that the nonopioid medication could help reduce postoperative opioid prescribing after total knee arthroplasty.

Alanna Morris, MD, MSc, joins Craig Beavers, PharmD, to discuss the 2026 ACC HFpEF pathway, foundational therapy, and where pharmacists fit in.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Jose Bazan, MD, who leads the Breast Radiation Oncology program at City of Hope, discusses an ongoing phase 2 trial evaluating whether stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) can help patients with oligoprogressive estrogen receptor (ER)-positive metastatic breast cancer remain on their current systemic therapy longer.

September’s pain management coverage examined postoperative nonopioid options, lessons from sickle cell pain research, and pharmacists’ experiences with controlled-substance prescribing.

Pharmacists have an opening to close chronic kidney disease (CKD) medication gaps as generic ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and SGLT2 inhibitors go underused.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Danielle Roman, PharmD, BCOP, FHOPA, manager of oncology clinical pharmacy services at Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, discusses ASCO’s updated guideline for follow-up and surveillance after primary treatment for early-stage breast cancer.

FDA clears tiratricol for MCT8 deficiency, lowering dangerous T3 and outlining dosing, lab testing, and pharmacy access.

A Peterson Health Technology Institute evaluation found virtual chronic kidney disease (CKD) care companies aren’t slowing kidney function decline or boosting medication adherence, despite billions invested.

A single infusion reversed new-onset type 1 diabetes (T1D) in more than half of treated mice by strengthening regulatory T cells and driving autoreactive CD8+ T cells into a less destructive state.

Approval spans early and levodopa-treated disease; a 6-week titration and CYP3A interactions put pharmacists at the center of starting therapy.

In a Pharmacy Times interview, study coauthor William J. Peppard, PharmD, discusses the association between suzetrigine and fewer opioid refills after knee replacement, the limits of the evidence, and the access barriers pharmacists can help patients navigate.