Specialty Pharmacy

Among HIV-positive women with diabetes, HIV control has improved over time, but diabetes control has not.

An evaluation of the impact of persistence to oral antidiabetic medication on reducing the risk of hospitalization in adult patients with type 2 diabetes.

Although precision medicine holds promise for advanced cancer care, many oncologists indicated challenges in the adoption of new, targeted therapies.

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Joy Gilbert, Vice President, Operations, US Bioservices, a part of AmerisourceBergen, goes into detail about how pharmacies can engage specialty-naive prescribers.

Emicizumab-kxwh is an antibody that activates the natural coagulation process in people with hemophilia A who lack factor VIII.

Upadacitinib is currently being tested in phase 3 trials of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and Crohn’s disease, and is being investigated to treat ulcerative colitis, ankylosing spondylitis, atopic dermatitis and giant cell arteritis.

Specialty pharmacies play a vital role in the patient journey from diagnosis to treatment.

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In a study presented at ASCO, Cemiplimab shows substantial activity and durable responses with an acceptable safety profile in treatment of metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

Pegfilgrastim-jmdb is the first biosimilar to pegfilgrastim (Neulasta) approved by the FDA.

Baricitinib is indicated as a monotherapy or in combination with methotrexate or other disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs for adults with moderately-to-severely active rheumatoid arthritis.

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists board votes unanimously to create a new section of practitioners that will help members provide optimal patient care and medication therapy management in specialty pharmacy.

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Matthew Hughes, director of Business Development for the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC), discusses the importance of setting up organizations for success through effective education.

Medication nonadherence in the United States reportedly costs the health care system $300 billion annually, but is this figure accurate?

Moxetumomab pasudotox is a nonchemotherapeutic drug that could become the standard of care for patients with relapsed/refractory hairy cell leukemia.

Durvalumab, an FDA-approved immunotherapy, met its second primary endpoint of overall survival in the phase 3 PACIFIC trial for stage 3 non-small cell lung cancer.

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New policies that aim to help generic drug makers move their products through the development and approval processes more efficiently have been announced by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD.

Pharmacy Times, the leading media resource for pharmacists and the pharmacy industry, and Specialty Pharmacy Times, the most read publication among specialty pharmacists, have been honored with the 2018 Hermes Creative Awards.

Ibrutinib plus obintuzumab improved progression-free survival in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma.

The study findings add evidence to support cannabidiol’s effectiveness in reducing severe seizures in this patient population.

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Luis Torres, MBA, Vice President, Managed Care, BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy, talks about popular strategies employers use to control drug spending.

Investigative migraine therapy galcanezumab has reported more statistically significant benefits across multiple relevant outcomes.