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Carefully checking every piece of information and proofreading for accuracy is crucial to ensure patient safety

Pharmacists play a key role in psychiatric medication overdose situations

Successful integration demands overcoming various hurdles.

Laura Gillespie, PharmD, discusses some of the financial benefits of having a pharmacist focused on antimicrobial stewardship efforts in a health system.

Exploring challenges and opportunities in developing personalized treatments for schizophrenia

This approval makes lutetium Lu177 the first therapy to be approved for the treatment of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in pediatric patients.

The approval was based on the QUILT-3.032 study, which included 77 adults with carcinoma in situ with or without papillary tumors after a transurethral resection.

The AAN speaker highlights what health care providers need to know when treating migraines in populations on hormone therapy, as well as how hormones can influence migraines.

With migraine as a leading disability for those under the age of 50, treatment options for migraine should be personalized to the patient and their needs.

Frexalimab demonstrated a favorable tolerability profile after approximately 1 year of treatment for individuals with relapsing disease.

Ofatumumab (Kesimpta; Novartis) demonstrated a sustained efficacy as a first-line, continuous treatment for patients recently diagnosed and treatment-naïve with relapsing multiple sclerosis.

PAPs in this model can significantly reduce OOP costs regardless of the pharmacy setting.

Conversations and counseling points should be tailored to patients’ individual needs and treatment goals

Laura Gillespie, PharmD, discusses the impact of pharmacist-led initiatives on health care–associated C diff rates for health care systems.

Investigators found that younger age groups had significantly longer lengths of stay compared to those older than 75 years.

The trial will compared the efficacy, safety, pharmacokinetics, and immunogenicity between SB27 and pembrolizumab for metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.

Optical glucose sensing techniques have been reported, but they require complex optical instrumentations found in laboratories, so feasibility for patient use has been challenging.

Investigators found that 89% of individuals with cardiovascular disease consumed more than 1500 mg of sodium daily.

Ocrelizumab (Ocrevus; Roche) is being investigated as a twice yearly 10-minute subcutaneous injection compared to the intravenous infusion formulation.

Sharing data and a personal recommendation can make a difference in a patient’s life

Proper diagnosis and selection of products is crucial to management of hay fever

The significant surge in oncology drug shortages in 2023 particularly affected essential chemotherapeutic drugs.

Integration of these agents requires supportive care considerations for cytokine release syndrome, neurotoxicity, infection, and antigen-specific toxicities to ensure optimal care of patients with multiple myeloma receiving T-cell–engaging therapies.

Retinoic acid, an active form of vitamin A, is crucial for the stem cells to depart lineage plasticity which get separated into hair cells or epidermal cells in vitro.

The primary endpoint of the study was clinical remission at week 52 with vedolizumab

Previously, glofitamab had received an accelerated approval for patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who received 2 or more prior lines of systemic therapy.

With this approval, alectinib is the first anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibitor to be approved for patients with ALK-positive, early-stage non-small cell lung cancer.