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May 27th 2025
Following a meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, the FDA announced their recommendation of COVID-19 vaccines targeting LP.8.1, a strain of the JN.1 variant that has become dominant in the US.
Pharmacists Play a Role in Responding to Drug Shortages
December 3rd 2018In a satellite symposium at the 2018 American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting in Anaheim, CA, the increasing rate of drug shortages was discussed, along with best practices pharmacists can use to mitigate the ongoing issue.
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Policy Can Help Improve Rural Health Care
December 3rd 2018Brock Slabach, MPH, FACHE, Senior Vice-President of the National Rural Health Association, discussed new developments in rural health care at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear 2018 Clinical Meeting in Anahein, CA. In this clip, he discusses how Congress might support rural health care in 2019.
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New Recall Announced for Products Containing Valsartan
November 28th 2018Teva Pharmaceuticals has initiated a voluntary recall in the United States, to the patient level, of all lots of Amlodipine/Valsartan combination tablets and Amlodipine Valsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide combination tablets, due to an impurity detected above specification limits in an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufactured by Mylan India.
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FDA Grants Onc Drug Accelerated Approval for Key Genetic Driver of Cancer
November 27th 2018The FDA has granted an accelerated approval to larotrectinib (Vitrakvi, Loxo Oncology) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with solid tumors that have an NTRKgene fusion without a known acquired resistance mutation, are metastatic or where surgical resection is likely to result in severe morbidity, and have no satisfactory alternative treatments or that have progressed following treatment.
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Brown Bag Consult: A Patient with Parkinson's Disease and Depression
November 24th 2018In this series, Jill Drury, PharmD, a clinical pharmacy specialist, provides patients with "Brown Bag" consultations. Patients bring to the pharmacy their current medications and over-the-counter products, giving the pharmacist an additional resource for pharmaceutical counsel. In this video, a patient with Parkinson's disease is experiencing depression. He is a military veteran who is unsure of the medical instructions given by the VA.
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