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May 13th 2025
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NCPA Offers Senate Committee Prescriptions for Addressing the Opioid Crisis
October 6th 2017The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) shared with Congress eight recommendations for leveraging independent community pharmacists' knowledge and proximity to patients to help address the opioid crisis.
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Bictegravir Combo Treatment Non-inferior to Boosted Protease Inhibitors in HIV?
October 5th 2017A fixed-dose combination of bictegravir and emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (BIC/FTC/TAF) was non-inferior to boosted protease inhibitor (bPI)-based regimens in virologically suppressed adults with HIV, according to a recently-published phase 3 study.
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Patients Want to Interact with Their Pharmacists on Social Media
October 5th 2017Social media has become a crucial tool for organizations and businesses to interact with their customers and discuss the services they offer. Many Americans look to social media for recommendations and to build stronger relationships with the brands they use.
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FDA OKs Third Indication for BOTOX Cosmetic
October 4th 2017FDA officials have approved onabotulinumtoxinA (BOTOX Cosmetic, Allergan) for its third indication for the temporary improvement in the appearance of moderate-to-severe forehead lines associated with frontalis muscle activity in adults.
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FDA Officials Warn About Compounding Risk
October 4th 2017According to an "FDA in Brief" report, officials with the FDA received an adverse event report on August 14, 2017, from a physician concerning a patient who was diagnosed postoperatively with bilateral hemorrhagic occlusive retinal vasculitis (HORV).
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More Than One-Third of Older Adults Use Sleep Medications
October 3rd 2017Most older adults don’t talk to their health care provider about sleep difficulties, even though more than one-third reported using some type of medication to help them sleep at night, according to results from the National Poll on Healthy Aging.
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Pharmacy Times Takes to Social Media to #ThankAPharmacist During American Pharmacists Month
October 3rd 2017Each October, APhM encourages consumers to “Know Your Medicine, Know Your Pharmacist,” highlighting the important role pharmacists play as they offer assistance with prescription and over-the-counter medication choices.
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ASHP to Create Pharmacy Technician Forum
October 3rd 2017On September 29, 2017, the ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the creation of an enhanced membership home for pharmacy technicians — the ASHP Pharmacy Technician Forum.
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Merck Discontinues 2 HCV Clinical Programs
September 30th 2017This decision was made based on a review of available phase 2 efficacy data and in consideration of the evolving marketplace and the growing number of treatment options available for patients with chronic HCV infection, including elbasvir and grazoprevir (Zepatier).
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