Specialty Pharmacy

The FDA has granted 2 breakthrough therapy designations to grazoprevir/elbasvir.

Private insurers and Medicare patients can pay up to 43 times less than the uninsured.

Study finds 1 in 5 Medicare patients have surgery delayed.

Making intravenous bag labels more legible could prevent medication errors during high-stress clinical situations.

HIV antiviral therapy can prevent infection from establishing in at-risk individuals.

Enzyme blocker shows potential in treating infections such as Ebola virus.

Pharmacy Times today joins with Cash Wise Pharmacy, Bashas' and Good Neighbor Pharmacy as it expands its Strategic Alliance Partnership (SAP) program. Sister publication Specialty Pharmacy Times added Avita and Biologics to its roster of strategic alliances.

Well-trained pharmacists can successfully screen patients for COPD in the community setting.

Mitra Habibi, PharmD, a clinical pharmacist at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, discusses methods specialty pharmacies can use to enhance adherence in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Glioblastoma Multiforme treatment may extend current one year survival rate.

While effective coordination during a patient's transition from hospital to home can improve outcomes, the process is frequently hindered by poor communication between hospital clinicians and primary care providers.

Drug could eventually also treat prostate cancer.

Drug failed in treatment of solid tumors but shows promise blocking amyloid-beta plaques.

A New York pharmacist was sentenced to 3 years in prison and will have to pay more than $7 million in restitution for his scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, and an AIDS program.

Natural extract found to reduce cell growth in triple negative breast cancer.

Specialty drugs comprise 28% of total drug costs from just 1% of claims.

Anti-infective and cancer drugs saw the most approvals last year.

Less toxic drug class combined with fasting may kill breast, lung, and colon cancer cells equally well.

Medication would require no refrigeration and cost less than $1 per dose to manufacture.

Engineered protein improves survival rates in aggressive leukemia.

Crohn's disease specifically carries greater risk for developing cervical cancer.

Donna M. Smith, PharmD, director of clinical affairs at Avella Specialty Pharmacy discusses strategies for the management of new lung cancer treatment options.

Children's medications should now be dispensed in metric units, not teaspoons or tablespoons. Here's how pharmacists can help make the change happen.

Advances in treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus have been breaking news in the last few years.

Compounds that prevent protein aggregation may lead to therapy for conditions such as cancer and diabetes.

Standard chemotherapy plus bevacizumab extends survival by a median of 5 months.

The FDA has granted priority review status to Amgen's supplemental New Drug Application for its carfilzomib (Kyprolis) cancer therapy.