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IBS Complete Support helps relieve abdominal pain, bloating, and constipation associated with irritable bowel syndrome.

Ciprodex is approved for the treatment of ear infections, acute otitis media, and acute otitis externa.

Pharmacists as immunizers are vaccine distributors, educators, facilitators, and administrators.

Real-world data show fremanezumab-vfrm (Ajovy) injection plus gepants combination effective in patients with difficult-to-treat migraine.

Citalopram (Celexa) is indicated for the treatment of major depressive disorder in adults.

Pepcid is indicated in adult and pediatric patients 40 kg and above for the treatment of active duodenal ulcer active gastric ulcer.

In clinical trials, Xiidra was found to improve eye dryness scores significantly compared with placebo.

The FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted nearly unanimously for an emergency use authorization for the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, NVX-CoV2373, for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.

Mentorship in pharmacy is particularly important because it may contribute to the development of competent, proficient, and motivated pharmacists to lead the profession and continue to advance the field.

Cymbalta is a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor indicated for major depressive disorder and anxiety, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain related to the muscles and bones.

Gastro-Ease helps maintain a healthy stomach, promoting health and comfort.

Inclisiran (Leqvio) is a small interfering ribonucleic acid approved by the FDA for patients who are on a maximally-tolerated dose of statins and need additional LDL-C reduction.

In a collaboration using a neutral zone, organizations do not have access to each other’s data, but will instead have access to insights gathered by pooling their data together with other organizations for analysis by artificial intelligence technology.

Investigators analyze the results of 71 clinical trials from around the world that were published between 1987 and 2020.

Further analyses showed guselkumab provided patients with sustained improvements in measures of health-related quality of life, fatigue, pain, and work productivity.

Priorix can be administered as a first dose, followed by a second dose of Priorix, or as a second dose to those previously administered the first dose of another MMR-containing vaccine.

Sinupret is a natural product that may help to promote strong nasal passages and sinuses along with overall immune function.

As pharmacists’ role in the health of communities continues to grow, it becomes even more critical for pharmacists to be armed with advanced technology when providing drug analysis.

Pharmacies can help bring inequities plaguing health care systems to an end to ensure the COVID-19 pandemic does not follow trends of inequity experienced in the HIV pandemic.

Famvir, a prodrug of penciclovir, is a nucleoside analog DNA polymerase inhibitor indicated for adults patients who are immunocompetent with herpes labialis (cold sores); treatment of recurrent episodes of genital herpes; and treatment of recurrent episodes, suppressive therapy of recurrent episodes and herpes zoster (shingles).

In light of the growing numbers of students opting for post-graduate trainings, colleges and schools of pharmacy may want to consider offering electives geared toward exposing students to post-graduate career possibilities and provide guidance toward success.

Suzanne Soliman, PharmD, BCMAS, discusses pharmacy management.

Dupilumab is under clinical development, and the efficacy and safety have not been fully evaluated by any regulatory authorities.

The drug is a treatment for individuals who are healing all grades of erosive esophagitis, as a relief of heartburn, and as maintenance of healing all grades of EE and relief of heartburn.

Individuals with elevated arterial stiffness combined with high blood pressure had the highest risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Natrol Stress & Anxiety helps decrease the effects of stress and anxiety to aid in establishing normal sleep patterns.

The application submission paves the way for a potential decision as early as this month.

Pharmacists can directly addressing health care disparities among socially disadvantaged and underserved communities.