All News

This $15 hack can help keep make trick-or-treating safe during Halloween.

A new study found that the COVID-19 death rate in New York has dropped significantly since March.

Researchers found that herpes prevalence increased steadily with age, with the lowest rates among those aged 20 years or younger and the highest rates among those aged 50 years and older.

Approximately 30% of women gain weight following chemotherapy for breast cancer, gut bacteria may be why.

Awareness of various methods, conceptual approaches, and theories can help generate success for a pharmacy entrepreneur.

The FDA granted priority review to a supplemental biologics license application for trastuzumab deruxtecan in patients with HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.

Peanut allergies affect approximately 1.2% of the entire US population and an estimated 2.5% of the childhood population.

Divergent research findings come as investigators seek to understand whether plasma treatments are effective in patients with COVID-19.

For patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, these computerized devices offer a break from conventional daily injections, while allowing patients to still reach and maintain their A1c levels and blood sugar targets.

Invermectin 0.5% is a topical lotion available OTC to treat head lice.

State Medicaid programs and other providers will need to learn more about the age distribution of autism among adults enrolled in Medicaid, in order to better serve them.

In addition to increasing physical power, physical training reduced participants’ body fat percentage and increased their oxygen-uptake efficiency.

The drug, PCLX-001, is expected to have minimal adverse effects in treatment of patients with blood cancers.

FDA approves FoundationOne Liquid CDx as a companion diagnostic for alpelisib in advanced or metastatic breast cancer, rucaparib in advanced ovarian cancer, and alectinib in a specific type of metastatic non–small cell lung cancer.

Both intravenous immunoglobulin and subcutaneous immunoglobulin are effective in treating myasthenia gravis.

Today, we’re celebrating the pharmacy team at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Desert Canyon in Las Vegas, Nevada.

An axillary lymph node dissection, which is the surgical removal of 10 to 20 lymph nodes from the breast, is a procedure conducted in up to 25% of women with breast cancer to disable symptoms of arm swelling.

Eysuvis is the first prescription therapeutic to specifically address short-term needs for patients with dry eye disease, a chronic condition affecting the tears and ocular surface.

Lipid-lowering medication may be an effective adjuvant cancer therapy.

The impact of engineering controls, such as ventilation systems, is greater on limiting the spread of COVID-19 than the impact of the most widely applied measures.

A recent study found that the US rural mortality penalty is wide and further expanding, which applies to the rural population overall, or all racial/ethnic groups combined, and for non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and Hispanics individually.

Approximately half of the people with multiple sclerosis (MS) have the HLA-DR15 gene variant, which is responsible for up to 60% of genetic risk.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmacists have been forced to face challenges to their practice that have required not only adaptation and flexibility, but also moments of empathy and vulnerability.

Patients with mild or no symptoms of COVID-19 may be infectious for just 10 days.

The mother of an 8-month-old infant, LG, arrives at the pharmacy to pick up her daughter’s seizure medicine, levetiracetam (Keppra) in 100 mg per ml oral solution, with 60 mg given to LG twice daily.

The study is one of the largest to ever use nutritional biomarkers to investigate bioactive compounds in lowering blood pressure.

The investigators found that 72% of participants would likely take the vaccine based on data collected from the previously validated COVID-SCORE survey of a sample of more than 13,400 individuals from 19 countries that were hard-hit by the virus.

This week on Pharmacy Times, there are a number of important topics that will be covered and posted throughout the week.

A new study found a combination of physical activity and cognition-boosting tasks, such as reading a book, is the best way to preserve brain health.

The FDA has approved the FoundationOne CDx (F1CDx) comprehensive genomic test as a companion diagnostic for larotrectinib (Vitrakvi) to identify patients with NTRK1/2/3 gene fusions across all solid tumors.