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After hospital pharmacists joined the cardiology team and made recommendations regarding treatment of acute coronary syndrome patients, adherence to clinical guidelines improved markedly.

Which personality traits will help pharmacists thrive in the profession as it goes through future changes?

The author discusses how he chose pharmacy as a profession as well as whether he would recommend it to others today.

Researchers have found no link between the amount of vaccine antigens received by the age of 2 years and the likelihood of developing autism.

A population-based study of older Caucasian women indicated that taking aspirin regularly over a longer period led to greater reduction in risk of developing melanoma.

The results of a large retrospective study support guidelines that recommend a conservative approach to stopping statin therapy and rechallenging with the same or a different statin in case of discontinuation.

Patients in an ongoing study on memory and aging with preclinical Alzheimer's disease were more likely to have low sleep efficiency and to nap frequently.

The court will decide whether "pay-to-delay" arrangements, in which the manufacturer of a branded medication pays another company to keep a generic version off the market, are legal.

Acute coronary syndrome patients often have complex medication regimens, which means that pharmacists play an important role in condition management and patient counseling.

Patients implanted with a drug-eluting stent who received a series of phone calls from nurses had much higher levels of adherence to dual antiplatelet therapy than patients who received usual follow-up care.

Acute coronary syndrome patients who received treatment for depression had fewer depressive symptoms than those in a usual-care group, according to the results of a study.

A review by a team of Italian researchers compares the available therapies for reducing stent thrombosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome.

More than half of diabetes patients who experienced aspirin resistance with once-daily dosing overcame it when aspirin was administered in 2 daily doses.

Peter Berger, MD, discusses the challenge of individualizing antiplatelet treatment for acute coronary syndrome patients.

A lecture on acute coronary syndromes by Kim A. Eagle, MD, director of the Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan Health System.

Jeffrey Berger, MD, discusses how research can help increase adherence to therapies among acute coronary syndrome patients.

A highly anticipated study found that a combination of niacin and the anti-flushing agent laropiprant offers no benefit to patients with vascular disease and may actually harm patients.

The popular antibiotic azithromycin has been associated with a risk of fatal heart rhythms, and health care providers are advised to take this into account when treating patients at risk of cardiovascular events.

A lengthy cover story in TIME magazine explores in great detail why health care costs so much in the United States, but what are pharmacists and other health care workers willing to do to reduce those costs?

Analysis of previous studies and several surveys of hospitals and hospital pharmacists has found that, as of 2008, use of e-prescribing was already averting millions of hospital medication errors per year.