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In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Jon Easter discusses the need for pharmacy to align as a profession to achieve policy and research goals.

President of NACDS, Steve Anderson, discusses how the events at Total Store Expo reflect on the association's goals of innovation and a focus on public policy.

Sara Roszak recounts the Annual NACDS Foundation Dinner and their role in implementing research at the clinical level.

Jasmine Perry discusses the More Than a Script program in an interview with Pharmacy Times.

In a session at NACDS Total Store Expo, experts spoke to the success of value-based care models in the pharmaceutical industry.

Steve Anderson, president and CEO of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), discusses memorable moments from this year's NACDS Total Store Expo.

Sara Roszak discusses her role as president of the NACDS Foundation.

Scott Biggs and Doug Long explain current trends in the pharmaceutical industry and the importance of ensuring pharmacists are informed.

Jon Easter talks about community pharmacy's role in propelling diabetes innovation and optimizing patient care.

New payment frameworks are emerging, but pharmacists need to be central to the ongoing food as medicine movement.

Roszak highlighted pharmacy data interoperability and food is medicine programs as 2 examples of innovative projects at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.

In her first Editor’s Note as editor in chief of PPFO, Zahra Mahmoudjafari shares reflections on a summer filled with conferences.

Non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, finerenone, demonstrated improved efficacy compared with existing steroidal treatment for patients.

Significant commonalities between type 2 diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders suggest that treatments effective for one condition may benefit the other.

Improvements were observed in both the intervention and control group, with those who had self-reported learning difficulties showing the least improvement.

Small adjustments in human pluripotent stem cell cultures and the molecule concentration patterns in the initial 5 days of differentiation are essential to “rescue” the lines.

In addition to a rapid deterioration, psychosis in Alzheimer disease can also lead to poorer quality of life, damaged patient-caregiver relationships, and increased isolation.

Edward B. Lee, MD, PhD, also describes how understanding Alzheimer disease requires the integration of multiple fields including genetics, pathology, epidemiology, pharmacology, and physiology.

Study results demonstrated that lecanemab provided sustained benefits over 36 months, such as improved biomarker profiles and slowed cognitive decline compared with placebo.

Tara Spires-Jones, DPhil, FMedSci, discusses how oligomeric tau clumps inside brain synapses, pointing to indirect evidence that it may be progressing through the brain by jumping between connections.

The co-founder, chief science officer, and chairman at Longeveron discusses the findings from the phase 2a trial CLEARMIND, as well as next steps to developing the therapy Lomecel-B.

Understanding and accounting for linguistic diversity is critical in diagnostics and treatment for dementia.

Joshua Hare describes how Lomecel-B addresses neuroinflammation, unlike other treatments which typically target amyloid disposition.

An extension of a long-acting cabotegravir study shows safety prior to and during pregnancy in cisgender women, with full results being presented at the 2024 International AIDS Conference.

Adherence and efficacy were both higher in patients with HIV who took twice-yearly lenacapavir compared to those on oral preexposure prophylaxis medication.

In the session at the 2024 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Annual Meeting, presenters highlighted the importance of fostering inclusion for LGBTQ students.

Educators should prioritize integrating social determinants of health (SDOH) for the next generation of pharmacists.