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Tracy Glauser, MD—associate director of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center—discusses the role of bioinformatics in health care.

Joseph Sullivan, MD—associate professor at the University of California San Francisco, director of USCF Pediatric Epilepsy Center—discusses some of the challenges in managing pediatric epilepsy.

Mitra Habibi, PharmD, discusses the challenges in treating patients with multiple comorbidities.

Awards recognize best demonstrated practices and case studies designed to improve pharmacy processes, efficiency, and outcomes.

Trained clinical pharmacists can effectively manage patients with hepatitis C virus.

Trained clinical pharmacists can effectively manage patients with hepatitis C virus, according to research presented at the ASHP Midyear 2016 Clinical Meeting and Exhibition.

Several people were honored this week at Baxter Healthcare Corporation’s Leadership Excellence Awards in Pharmacy, or LEAP, ceremony.

Clinicians may face too many choices regarding the methods for screening patients with epilepsy for comorbidities.

Misuse of antimicrobial agents has contributed to a growing number of infections impervious to antibiotic treatments.

Petrea Cober, PharmD, BCNSP, BCPPS, discusses the challenges of parenteral nutrition education.

Arching Shrestha, MD, discusses the challenges of treating epilepsy in the elderly.

Sanjeev V. Thomas, MD, DM, FANA—professor of neurology, chairman of the Epilepsy Program, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute—discusses why the risk of seizures is higher for women during the peripartum period.

Jacqueline A. French, MD—professor of neurology, NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Study Consortium, president, The Epilepsy Study Consortium—discusses how the new ILAE definition of epilepsy and classification of seizures differ from the previous versions.

Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most serious emerging threats to public health.

Antiepileptic drugs and seizures may harm a fetus, so it is important for physicians to plan an individualized treatment strategy for women with epilepsy.

Intradepartmental hospital pharmacy groups can play a key role in helping to identify and troubleshoot problem areas.

Collaboration between physicians, patients, and pharmacists is essential to address the public health crisis of opioid misuse and overdose in the United States.

Intradepartmental hospital pharmacy groups can play a key role in helping to identify and troubleshoot problem areas, according to a presentation at the ASHP Midyear 2016 Clinical Meeting and Exhibition.

Collaboration between physicians, patients, and pharmacists is essential for addressing the public health crisis of opioid misuse and overdose in the United States, according to a presentation at the ASHP Midyear 2016 Clinical Meeting and Exhibition.

Christopher M. Jones, PharmD, CDR, US Public Health Service, discusses opportunities for pharmacists to reduce opioid prescription rates.

Jacqueline A. French, MD—professor of neurology, NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Study Consortium, president, The Epilepsy Study Consortium—discusses how the new ILAE definition of epilepsy may change the disease.

Elizabeth Thiele, MD, PhD, pediatric neurologist/epileptologist, discusses treatment options for patients with epilepsy due to tuberous sclerosis complex.

Elizabeth Thiele, MD, PhD, pediatric neurologist/epileptologist, discusses the impact of tuberous sclerosis complex on children.

Jacqueline A. French, MD—professor of neurology, NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Study Consortium, president, The Epilepsy Study Consortium—discusses how the new ILAE definition of epilepsy can improve patient outcomes.

Not planning pregnancy in women with epilepsy could lead to fetal malformations.

Elizabeth Thiele, MD, PhD, pediatric neurologist/epileptologist, discusses symptoms of tuberous sclerosis complex and the role early detection plays in disease prognosis.

For the first time, the new International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) seizure classifications were presented at the American Epilepsy Society conference during the Annual Fundamentals Symposium: The New Definition and Classification of Epilepsy on Friday, December 2, 2016.

The definition of epilepsy has been updated by the International League Against Epilepsy.