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Formulary changes, utilization management, and a lack of transparency upset a lot of members, which hides a lot of good things that pharmacy benefit managers do.

The findings, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, add to a list of cardiac risks experienced by patients with HIV.

There are many substances that are included on the prohibited list for the Tokyo Olympics that are considered standard medications for certain disease states.

Crohn disease causes inflammation of the digestive tract, which can lead to abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss, and malnutrition.

A panel of experts from various settings in the pharmacy field discuss the application of cultural humility and their own experiences when providing culturally appropriate care to underserved or marginalized populations.

With COVID-19 vaccination clinics still operating and booster doses on the horizon, there continues to be a need for pharmacy technicians as immunizers well into the future.

Dupilumab (Dupixent) was approved in 2017 for the treatment of adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis whose disease is not adequately controlled with topical prescription therapies.

The research team analyzed the associations between maternal diabetes before or during pregnancy and the risk of high refractive error (RE), which are conditions in which there is a failure of the eye to properly focus images on the retina.

Parents are encouraged to either get all immunizations in one health care facility or have a card that documents all the immunizations the child has received.

The Pharmacy Quality Alliance developed the “Medication Access Framework for Quality Measurement” to address the social determinants of health that hinder patient medication access and contribute to poor health outcomes.

Six-point plan outlines strategies to increase national vaccination rates, keep schools open, increase testing and masking access, and to relieve health systems that are overrun with COVID-19 patients.

Empagliflozin demonstrated a 21% relative risk reduction for the composite primary endpoint of cardiovascular death or hospitalization for heart failure, compared with placebo.

Concepts could be used in payer-pharmacy value-based arrangements.

A new study explores why individuals who suffer most from the condition have the worse symptoms at night.

Racial or ethnic discrimination can appear in many ways, even as discrimination against someone based on their accent.

Vaccines help prevent pneumococcal disease, which is any type of illness caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria.

Pharmacists can be instrumental in reducing the main challenges in opioid use disorder—namely supply, demand, and harm.

The results of a new study show that exposure to the viruses produces a protective ‘universal coronavirus’ memory.

The investigators said that even patients with asthma showed no statistically significant deterioration in lung function, although there was a trend toward slightly lower measurements for the amount of air they could exhale forcibly in 1 second.

Bleeding in the upper GI tract is among the most common bleeding complications following acute myocardial infarction, causing considerable suffering and increasing the risk of death.

The results of a new study show that immunizations may help prevent malignancies in individuals aged 36 to 45 years.

Ulcerative colitis affects the innermost lining of your large intestine and rectum.

Study results show that these personalized treatments adjust based on cerebral function through electric pulses.

In a study, 92.5% of patients treated with the 6-month regimen of Invega and 95% of patients treated with the 3-month regimen were relapse-free at 12 months.

Diabetic kidney disease develops in nearly 40% of patients with diabetes and serves as the leading cause of chronic kidney disease worldwide, according to the study.

RSV is defined as a seasonal illness that starts in the fall months and peaks during the winter when other respiratory illnesses are more common.

Unlike other medications for chronic idiopathic constipation, prucalopride works by enhancing colonic peristalsis to increase bowel motility.

Treatment-emergent serious adverse events were reported more frequently in patients with PVD, which was likely due to their more advanced disease, according to the researchers.

Ten quiz questions to assess your knowledge on common symptoms and treatments for shingles.

Psoriasis is a common, long-term chronic disease with no cure that goes through cycles, flaring for a few weeks or months, then going into remission.