
Levels of the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug tenofovir among African adolescent girls and young women were more than 30% lower in those who were pregnant than in those who had recently given birth.

Levels of the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug tenofovir among African adolescent girls and young women were more than 30% lower in those who were pregnant than in those who had recently given birth.

The program will award grants for training and development of educational resources for employees in high risk occupations who serve the public during emergencies and who need skills to protect their own health.

Pregabalin capsules is used to treat pain caused by nerve damage due to diabetes or shingles infection.

Gunda Siska, RPh, PharmD, discusses what she is doing as a hospital pharmacist to stay healthy.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s administration has decided that in-state and out-of-state health care providers can treat patients via telemedicine during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Officials with the FDA have said they are beginning to see unauthorized test kits marketed for consumers to test for COVID-19 at home.

Hoth Therapeutics and Voltron Therapeutics will collaborate to develop the self-assembling vaccine technology as a means to aid patients at risk of being infected with COVID-19.

Katie Turner, CPhT, is a senior pharmacy technician at Walgreens.

The study, which includes data from asthma patient samples and mouse models, is the first to definitively show a relationship between iron build-up in the lung cells and tissues and the severity of asthma, according to the researchers.

The multi-site study of patients aged 65 years or older examined the levels of vitamin D levels in blood serum, and nutrition and its impact on mobility.

As the role of pharmacists grows into a new phase, the role of the pharmacy technician is expanding as well.

The test can be used to identify large numbers of infected patients and asymptomatic carriers, which would help support containment efforts and slow the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

The new study has found that the lymphedema monitoring technology, marketed by LymphaTech, can effectively detect early arm swelling associated with lymphedema in breast cancer patients.

Trastuzumab-dttb was first approved in January 2019 across all eligible indications, mainly adjuvant treatment of HER2-overexpressing breast cancer, metastatic breast cancer, and metastatic gastric cancer.

The new guidelines recommend dosing vancomycin to achieve an area under the curve to minimum inhibitor concentration (AUC/MIC) ratio of ≥ 400.

Caplyta is an oral, once daily medicine approved for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults.

Not enough people are taking seriously frequent recommendations to practice social distancing, he said.

Why is your patient using conjugated estrogens vaginal cream for nosebleeds?

The FDA has issued a new guidance to sponsors and health care providers regarding certain Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy-required testing during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium is a partnership of federal government, tech industry, and academic leaders whose goal is to stop the virus.

The phase 3 trial showed a statistically significant improvement in overall survival (OS) and composite complete remission rate.

The growth of the pipeline has led to increases in insurance carriers’ specialty plan spend.

A study of the second HIV patient to undergo successful stem cell transplantation from donors with an HIV-resistant gene found that there was no active viral infection in the patient’s blood 30 months after they stopped antiretroviral therapy.

Tim Ulbrich, PharmD, co-founder and CEO of Your Financial Pharmacist, explains how your finances may be affected by the coronavirus and how your can reinforce your financial situation.

The US Pharmacopeia (USP) is providing free technical assistance to developers of antiviral drugs and vaccines that will support the public health response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Pharmacy Moms Group special task force develops guidelines as precautions are implemented amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new commentary suggests that public health leaders should guide world leaders through the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Only 15% of those at risk are currently using PrEP.

A report published noted that there are subpopulations of pediatric patients with COVID-19 who have an increased risk for more significant illness.

Statins, widely used to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, may guard against heart damage caused by certain breast cancer therapies.