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Memantine HCl (Namenda) is indicated for the treatment of moderate to severe dementia of the Alzheimer’s type.

Doan’s magnesium salicylate tetrahydrate formulation treats pain from backaches.

Pharmacists can help by preventing and treating opioid use disorder and overdoses.

School-aged children that self-swabbed for COVID-19 did so with almost as much accuracy as a health care provider, which could ease strain on school health care systems.

The phase 2 AXIOMATIC trials assessing milvexian met its primary endpoints, with researchers anticipating a phase 3 trial to come within the year.

Scott Biggs and Doug Long of IQVIA discussed where the pharmacy industry stands now and what they predict for the future.

An overview of the legal and business tools available to community, specialty, hospital, and health-system pharmacies in seeking to maintain payer network access and combat abusive practices.

It is not a leap to think that the 2022-2023 season could be worse than the past 2 seasons.

Although it may not have immediate significant impacts for many patients, the Inflation Reduction Act could open the door for future changes.

Bill Schimmel, CEO and executive director of the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB), discusses how pharmacy technicians can face burnout and advocate for themselves.

Study results show that the risk of gaining 10% or more of body weight from the baseline fell 50% when patients were on the combination.

Georgia State University analysis supports new strategy for creating these vaccines, investigators contend.

VaxiTaxi is aimed to deliver immunity to the community, whether it is a high risk patient, busy family, or a needle shy/needlephobic.

Though around 42% of medical students in study experience headaches, many of these causing significant functional disability, most choose to self-manage symptoms with sleep and medication.

Though there is no well-defined therapeutic approach to the treatment of Arndt-Gottron syndrome, intravenous immunoglobulins have been documented as a well-tolerated treatment in some cases.

Viral DNA samples from 4 ancient cadavers suggest that HSV-1 transmission boomed with Bronze Age migrations and the introduction of kissing as a romantic and sexual cultural practice.

Zynrelef is indicated in adults for soft tissue or periarticular instillation to produce postsurgical analgesia for up to 72 hours after foot and ankle, small-to-medium open abdominal, and lower extremity total joint arthroplasty surgical procedures.

BleedCEASE is intended to stop bleeding from cuts and nosebleeds.

The FDA approval makes olipudase alfa the first approved drug to target the physiological symptoms of the disease.

Lawrence H. Summers, former US Secretary of the Treasury, explains that he is optimistic regarding pharmacy’s increasing role in fighting future pandemics.

Vertical and horizontal consolidation has had a significant impact on retail, specialty, and health-system pharmacies.

With these bivalent vaccine authorizations, the monovalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are still not authorized as booster doses for individuals 12 years of age and older.

The benefits of taking a daily statin may improve as a patient grows older.

Paul Forsberg, PharmD, BCOP, MHA, director of Pharmacy Services at Minnesota Oncology discusses how pharmacists can remain on top of shifts in the nature of biosimilar payer benefit design.

Some function is partially restored once smokers kick the habit, results presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022 show.

Desmond Hunt, PhD, senior principal scientist at US Pharmacopeia (USP), discusses the standards and resources that USP has recently published or is looking at now on the subject of pharmacy in transit.

Data have shown there is a rising need for mental health and substance use disorder services, yet there is a shortage of psychiatrists in the country that is estimated to worsen by 2024.

Investigational targeted B-cell therapy demonstrates superior efficacy compared with teriflunomide, a commonly prescribed treatment for MS.