Specialty Pharmacy

Reading mammograms for longer periods of time did not reduce cancer detection, but increased overall performance.

Pharmacists can manage HIV comorbid conditions, produce cost savings, reduce drug interactions, and expedite viral load suppression.

Medication management and counseling can have a positive impact on specialty pharmacy patients.

Some types of physical activity may increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.

Diabetic macular oedema could be reduced by the cardiovascular drug darapladib.

Portal hypertension can result in bleeding from varicose veins in the esophagus.

Study finds risk from drinking coffee, tea, or other beverages at higher temperatures.

Gene therapy found to stop the progression of glioblastoma and high-grade glioma in mouse models.

HIV-like virus eliminated from body with early administration of treatment.

Top articles of the week on The American Journal of Pharmacy Benefits.

Recent advances and updates in oncology and cancer drug development.

Researchers discovered that the gene RhoC is able to control how cancer cells create energy and use glutamine.

Further research is needed for HIV to be treated by the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool.

FCGR2A could indicate which patients with colorectal cancer respond to cetuximab.

Protease inhibitors can lead to the development of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity in patients with HIV.

Caregivers may have a new marker for graft-versus-host disease to monitor in transplant patients.

Recommended levels of exercise found to decrease the risk of cancer in 13 of 26 cancer types.

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

Issues with sleep can lead poor prognosis for skin cancer.

Several factors can affect whether women diagnosed with breast cancer begin chemotherapy.

Several public health interventions could prevent HIV transmission among injection drug users.

Pharmaceutical Care Management Association highlights lowering costs through Medicare Part D and specialty pharmacies.

Intensive stem cell transplant cleared all signs of brain inflammation in multiple sclerosis patients.

Hemophilia patients treated with Recombinant Factor VIII may develop inhibitors.

Harnessing the immune system may lead to an effective HIV vaccine strategy.

Drug labels for canagliflozin and dapagliflozin revised to include acute injury warning.

Josh Stein, CEO and Co-founder of AdhereTech, discusses how smart pill technology can improve adherence in patients on a specialty drug regimen.