Specialty Pharmacy

United States Preventive Service Task Force screening guidelines for diabetes found to miss more than half of high-risk patients.

Burdock root, or gobo, associated with lower rates of colon cancer and colitis.

Chemotherapy drug may cause the loss of hearing during the treatment of testicular cancer.

Overexpression of Aurora Kinase could potentially inhibit a tumor suppressing gene.

The specialty pharmacist has to balance myriad competing priorities in managing a specialty therapy regimen.

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Understanding cellular mechanism can improve treatment of chronic inflammatory disease.

Research could lead to improved personalized therapies for acute myeloid leukemia.

Specialty pharmacies need to maintain services that ensure optimal patient care and outcomes.

Patients treated for high cholesterol showed improved survival in bowel, breast, lung, and prostate cancers.

Researchers target causes of severe depression in MS patients.

Adlyxin is a once-daily injection that improves glycemic control in type 2 diabetes.

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Analysis of HOX gene able to predict survival in ovarian cancer.

Participants who lost weight showed decreased expression of proteins that promote tumor-related angiogenesis.

Standardizing measurements across the lifecycle of a prescription will help specialty pharmacies demonstrate success.

Analysis finds health plans need to examine total treatment costs instead of just drug costs.

Vemurafenib is a multi-targeted kinase inhibitor originally approved to treat melanoma patients with a BRAF mutation.

New class of HIV medications called viral-entry inhibitors protect healthy cells from viral infection.

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

Veikira XR is a once-daily medication that treats hepatitis C genotype 1.

Compounds found in turmeric and milk thistle inhibit the spread of cancer cells.

A novel technique could resolve current problems with photo-thermal therapy for cancer treatment.

Kevin James, RPh, MBA, vice president of payer strategy at US Bioservices, discusses the impact of Accountable Care Organizations on specialty pharmacy.

Pharmacists can offer value to manufacturers, providers, patients, and payers.

Inferiority ruled for biosimilar of trastuzumab in the treatment of HER2-positive early breast cancer.

Microorganisms in the gut play a role in inflammation among patients with multiple sclerosis.