Specialty Pharmacy

Ten quiz questions to assess your knowledge on common symptoms and treatments for HIV.

The study’s identification of a network of possible candidate genes to carefully control for mutations could alter the future clinical implementation of CRISPR.

The Build Back Better bill include an authorization for the government to negotiate lower drug prices.

Pembrolizumab demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in disease-free survival, reducing the risk of disease recurrence or death by 32% compared to placebo.

Olumiant shows favorable long-term safety profile in rheumatoid arthritis.

Pharmacists should keep an eye on the pipeline for autologous and allogeneic CAR T-cell therapies as well as antibody-specific treatments.

Pharmacy performance measures can support greater patient access to care and services through team-based care and to facilitate value-based contracts between pharmacists and payers.

Risk factors for liver cancer include chronic infection with hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus, cirrhosis, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Gaby Gabriel, MD, program director, interventional radiology residency and assistant program director, diagnostic radiology residency, University of Kentucky, discusses the implications of research into the treatment of liver metastases in patients with gastrointestinal NETs.

Gaby Gabriel, MD, program director, interventional radiology residency and assistant program director, diagnostic radiology residency, University of Kentucky, discusses areas of concern when approaching the combination and sequencing of liver-directed therapy with systemic therapy.

Gaby Gabriel, MD, program director, interventional radiology residency and assistant program director, diagnostic radiology residency, University of Kentucky, discusses the potential sequencing in the combination of liver-directed therapy with systemic therapy.

Specialty pharmacists give physicians and specialists the opportunity to focus less on non-medical issues and more on the patient and efficiently finding the most optimal therapy.

Gaby Gabriel, MD, program director, interventional radiology residency and assistant program director, diagnostic radiology residency, University of Kentucky, discusses the results of combining liver-directed therapy with systemic therapy when treating patients with gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors.

Gaby Gabriel, MD, program director, interventional radiology residency and assistant program director, diagnostic radiology residency, University of Kentucky, discussed how systemic therapy differs from liver-directed therapy.

Gaby Gabriel, MD, program director, interventional radiology residency and assistant program director, diagnostic radiology residency, University of Kentucky, discussed how liver-directed therapy is approached in the treatment of liver metastases in patients with gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors.

Pharmacies and shippers can be active participants from the loading dock to the front door by using available data and analytics to make better business decisions in successfully shipping their next patient medication.

Jameshia Below, PharmD, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Louisiana Monroe College of Pharmacy, explains how palliative care can support the cancer treatment process, and how specialty pharmacies can support this type of care.

In this first episode of the new series, Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute Bia Labate, PhD, and Kelan Thomas, PharmD, MS, associate professor of clinical sciences at the Touro University California College of Pharmacy, discussed the global psychedelic medicine market.

NETs can occur almost anywhere in the body, although they are most common in the gastrointestinal tract and lungs.

The FDA also granted Priority Review designation for the toripalimab BLA and set a Prescription Drug User Fee Act action date for April 2022; however, the FDA is not currently planning to hold an advisory committee meeting to discuss the application.

Mei Ka Fong, PharmD, BCOP, said there are multiple treatment approaches for patients with NETs.

The study also collected patient-reported outcomes in routine clinical practice to understand the impact of treatment on health-related quality of life.

Prurigo nodularis has one of the highest quality of life impacts of any inflammatory skin disease with intense, chronic itch.

Rare disease specialty pharmacies offer customizable pharmacy and patient services to make it easier for people living with rare, complex, and often isolating conditions to access the therapy, care, and resources they need.

Asciminib (Scemblix) approved for patients with Philadelphia chromosome–positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in chronic phase who were previously administered 2 or more tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

This developing technology offers opportunities for decentralized record-keeping and tracking of transactions, as well as increased overall efficiency and the removal of unnecessary intermediaries.

Mitigating the likelihood of pharmacy staff burnout requires a multifactorial approach.

Nathan Bryson, PhD, chief scientific officer of Field Trip Health, said the company's new psychedelic compound, FT-104, could have potential uses in the treatment of postpartum depression.