Specialty Pharmacy

The focus on specialty drug development and approvals have raised questions as to whether traditional pharmacy was being replaced by specialty pharmacy.

Synovial CD4+ T cells that produce IL-21 play a role in joint inflammation.

Erin Hohman, PharmD, BCPS, director of Clinical Pharmacy Services at Amber Pharmacy, discusses utilization management issues with a PCSK9 inhibitor regimen for high cholesterol.

Prostate cancer can be subtyped based on cell of origin as luminal A, luminal B, and basal cell subtypes.

Treatment shows benefit in patients with low-grade serous cancer.

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Specialty pharmacies are poised to fill a need in health care should the use of Health Savings Accounts grow.

Atopic dermatitis drug improves overall disease severity in phase 3 clinical trial.

Early-stage breast cancer patients with low muscle quality and quantity have twice the risk of hospitalization.

Diseases such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, and psoriasis showed a statistically significant association with dementia.

A subset of the HIV is transmitted to the child during pregnancy or through breastfeeding.

Deborah Michaelson, MS, RPh, discusses various challenges that accompany patient support in the long-term care setting.

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

PI3K inhibitors loaded into nanoparticles provided targeted treatment for head and neck cancers.

A New Zealand woman who was intentionally infected with HIV and was the center of a high profile criminal case faces down numerous challenges related to the virus.

Gregory R. Morris, chief commercial officer at VirMedica, discusses hurdles with the use of eAccess technology in specialty pharmacy.

Scientists utilized nanotechnology to improve HIV treatments.

Even macrophages aren’t safe from HIV.

Top articles of the week from Specialty Pharmacy Times.

Recombinant shell nanoparticles could deliver drugs straight to cancer cells.

Sarcopenia identified as an independent risk factor.

African American patients are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancer and have higher mortality.

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The United States is in desperate need of an overhaul to the current health care system.

Fibroblasts in the gastrointestinal tract help HIV infect immune cells.

Drug may offer an effective alternative to chemotherapy for patients with leukemia.

Combination treatment helped increase invasive disease-free survival in patients with an aggressive type of early breast cancer.