Specialty Pharmacy

Veterans who obtain their prescriptions at a VA pharmacy will see their copays remain steady through 2016.

Technology may help improve patient outcomes through enhanced personalized medicine.

National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP) Executive Director James E. Smeeding, RPh, MBA, discusses changes ahead for specialty pharmacy patients.

Nanopore technology may soon be adapted for early disease detection.

Investigators question if hepatitis A virus originated in animals.

Researchers examine how immunodeficiency diseases avoid immune system attacks.

Sleep disturbances accounted for a quarter of the variance in fatigue among patients with MS.

Current HIV treatment guidelines are based on data obtained primarily from men.

Findings could eliminate need for weeks of treatments that carry severe side effects.

Research may help tailor treatments to individual patients.

Usability testing should include at least 15 representative end-user participants.

Kyprolis is for injection in patients with relapsed multiple myeloma.

Amid public uproar over its steep price increase for pyrimethamine (Daraprim), Turing Pharma announced last night that it would lower the drug's cost.

Confusion over the drug strength displayed for the new antibacterial agent Avycaz could cause medication errors, the FDA is warning pharmacists.

Patients treated with the drug showed improvements in overall survival.

Michael Zeglinski, Vice President of Specialty Pharmacy Operations at BriovaRx, discusses how health care reform has changed specialty pharmacy.

Each additional year of smoking after multiple sclerosis diagnosis accelerated the time to secondary progressive disease conversion.

Gary Cohen was the sole occupant of a Cessna amphibious plane that crashed in Florida on September 18.

Guidelines help identify and manage potential physical and psychosocial effects of colorectal cancer.

MS patients who participate in physical activity more likely to have lower overall amount of brain lesions.

The more orders pharmacists have to verify, the more likely they are to make mistakes.

MS advocacy group provides a wide range of services that help patients manage the disease.

Average reimbursement for Part B oncology drugs is 52% higher in 340B hospitals than in community cancer clinics.

Drug that targets interaction with RNA does not damage other proteins.

Treatment seeks to reverse chemotherapy resistance caused by P-glycoprotein.

mHealth apps greatly improve the accuracy and convenience of data collection.

Treatment shows rapid and significant improvements in signs and symptoms of RA after 24 weeks of treatment.

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia treatment reprograms T cells to hunt and kill cancer cells.