Specialty Pharmacy

Proper succession planning for your pharmacist-in-charge is a must for continuity of business.

Etanercept found equally as effective as Enbrel in treating plaque psoriasis.

New research is needed to determine proper diagnostic measurements for sarcopenia.

Link between HIV and cancer established in new report.

Collaboration between physicians, patients, and pharmacists is essential to address the public health crisis of opioid misuse and overdose in the United States.

Intradepartmental hospital pharmacy groups can play a key role in helping to identify and troubleshoot problem areas, according to a presentation at the ASHP Midyear 2016 Clinical Meeting and Exhibition.

Top news of the week in oncology and cancer drug development.

The finalized rule will improve payment for care relating to chronic diseases, mental health, and cognitive impairment.

The report examines changing areas that will impact pharmacists.

Pharmacy teams from 6 institutes won the ASHP Best Practices Award.

Newly developed technology maps HIV inserts across the human genome.

Distinct subsets of synovial fibroblasts in rheumatoid arthritis development identified.

Top news of the week on Specialty Pharmacy Times.

Medical marijuana may fall under specialty pharmacy in the future.

The new method makes breast imaging less risky, and can lessen false-positive readings.

Around 14 million people have HIV worldwide – yet an estimated 40% don’t know they’re infected.

Study captures major changes in infectious diseases between 1980 through 2014.

New treatments show promise harnessing the immune system to attack late-stage skin cancer.

A newly developed hand-held breath analyzer tests for elevated levels of acetone, which is strongly associated with undiagnosed diabetes.

Trametinib targets a type of immune cell that inhibits T cell response in cancer.

Top news of the day from across the health care landscape.

A first-of-its-kind study successfully transferred an ovary from one individual to another.

Rheumatic and myocardial inflammation can be treated with disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs.

ASHP’s 2016 Midyear Clinical Meeting is the largest gathering of clinical pharmacists in the world.

New progress made towards the development of an HIV vaccine.

Variants of GAL are more common among women, which may explain the high prevalence of multiple sclerosis.

A novel drug used in combination with radiation found to be a more effective treatment for prostate cancer.

About 1 in 6 women diagnosed with breast cancer have a symptom other than a lump.

The rubella virus stays in the body of patients with severe deficiencies in their immune defenses, making them more susceptible to side effects.

Top news of the day from across the health care landscape.