Specialty Pharmacy

Medication therapy management could improve health care outcomes for patients and lower overall costs.

Keytruda treats patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer whose disease has progressed despite other treatment methods.

Guidelines include risk classification system to remind caregivers to examine diabetics' feet.

Therapy with binimetinib and ribociclib shows significant clinical activity in NRAS-mutant melanoma patients.

The latest stabbing of a pharmacist has renewed calls for tougher sentencing and increased policing to protect pharmacists.

Medication dispensing within the first few months of prescribing chronic therapy can precisely predict future patient adherence.

Viral induction greater than any other latency reversing agent.

Top cancer-related news from the past week.

New guidelines based on overwhelming clinical evidence that ART is effective.

Around 11% of patients who use insulin have adverse drug reactions.

A pharmacist in Nebraska has pleaded guilty to what is possibly the largest case of Medicaid fraud in the state.

Hepatitis C infections are more likely to become persistent and to lead to progressive liver disease in patients with HIV.

Chronic inflammatory skin condition associated with decreased quality of life and increased all-cause mortality.

New therapeutic target may decrease breast cancer risk.

Top stories of the week on Specialty Pharmacy Times.

CEO of Avella Specialty Pharmacy Rebecca M. Shanahan, Esq., discusses how accountable care organizations impact specialty pharmacy.

David Lassen, chief clinical officer at Prime Therapeutics, discusses the potential long term impact from biosimilars on the specialty drug landscape.

Palmitic acid found in olive oil, butter, cheese, milk, and meat may worsen inflammation.

The changeover to ICD-10 medical diagnosis codes could complicate tasks in emergency departments.

Treatment with dabrafenib and trametinib extends patient survival more than 2 years.

Study warns that expedited approvals have become the rule rather than the exception.

Prevalence higher among those who used illicit drugs.

Research offers enhanced method to assess effects of cancer drugs on normal and healthy cells.

Broadly neutralizing antibodies may help defend the body against HIV.

Hepatic inflammation and metabolic factors associated with hepatosteatosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection.

October is American Pharmacists Month, the perfect time to promote the pharmacy profession and recognize the important role of the pharmacist.