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Without sufficient vitamin D exposure, bones can become thin, brittle, or misshapen; however, excessive amounts of vitamin D are toxic.

Dong Xu, PhD, MS, curators' distinguished professor at the University of Missouri College of Engineering, discusses how artificial intelligence is being used to develop new drug therapies for medical treatments targeting cancers and other diseases.

One example that has already been done in the past relates to understanding how to better measure insulin persistence.

This month's OTC Cases focuses on heartburn, pinworm infection, and food poisoning.

The FDA has approved abrocitinib tablets to treat adults with moderate-to-severe, refractory atopic dermatitis.

In patients already using analgesics for pain control, pharmacists need to address medication adherence for improved osteoarthritis symptom control.

Issues like medication access and transportation cost all impact a patient's ability to have access to medications and use them safely and effectively.

The vaccine is also credited with saving more than $30 billion in health care costs and more than $40 billion in lost productivity.

Murray Aitken, executive director of IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, discusses whether patient out of pocket costs rose in 2021, and what the implications may be for the health care system and for patients in 2022.

Comfort Ear soothes dry, irritated ears.

It's really opening up the world for pharmacists to develop more meaningful measures and get at patient reported and clinical outcome measures.

Here are 9 tips for employers to address employees’ feeling of detachment, exhaustion, and reduced accomplishment.

This month's product news features beet gummies, nerve relief, and acne blemish patches.

Approved by the FDA in 2021, finerenone is the only non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist that reduces the risk of renal disease progression and cardiovascular events in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus-mediated chronic kidney disease.

Murray Aitken, executive director of IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, discusses the implications of the increase in spending on medicines in the United States in 2021.

There is greater than a 98% probability that BI 1015550 was superior to placebo in slowing down the worsening of lung function in individuals with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Galcanezumab-gnlm (Emgality) is a CGRP antagonist indicated in adults for the preventive treatment of migraine and treatment of episodic cluster headache.

CalmEar is for dry, irritated, and itchy ears.

Pharmacy performance measures allow the pharmacy to be more engaged in the patient's care that focuses on outcomes.

Of the 7 herpesviruses examined in the study, herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus were associated with incidence of prediabetes and diabetes among individuals with normal glucose tolerance.

There are many initiatives that are going on at PQA right now that are related to health equity.

But meeting regulatory requirements may entail a great deal of financial expertise and time.

Pharmacists must communicate more than drugs and dosages and offer counseling on lifestyle and sleep habits.

More than half of women diagnosed with anxiety and/or depression said they waited at least 1 year before seeking treatment, or never sought treatment at all.

Investigators suggested a new test method for the infection with ESAT6/CFP10 and to monitor the disease development and treatment with Ag85B.

The guide is an opportunity to just catalog what else is going on there to kind of be an inspiration for expansion of services.

But HRT is associated with positive changes to cholesterol levels, though the sample size was small, the analysis shows.

The analysis, results of which are published in The Lancer Psychiatry, also identifies genetic markers that seem to influence how quickly the body eliminates the medication from its system.

Pharmacists can resolve medication-related problems through face-to-face consultations with patients.

The use of certain drugs, such as statins, may lead to rhabdomyolysis.