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A recent study shows that diabetes risk is associated with younger age at onset of obesity, and longer exposure to obesity.

This Tip of the Week focuses on a study to evaluate pharmacy in the context of true patient outcomes, rather than on the structure and process measures often employed in such ratings programs.

Electronic health records and the data created are being used on multiple levels and continue to be a driving force for improving care and lowering health care costs.

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A combination therapy may counter the resistance to human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 inhibitor neratinib in patients with breast, ovarian, lung, or other cancers.

Research may help to develop usable hematopoietic stem cells that could regrow a patient with leukemia’s blood system after chemotherapy and irradiation.

The nationwide continuing education conference series will share the latest clinical data while exploring best practices and management strategies for patients with chronic illnesses.

Specialty pharmacists are well positioned to manage the opioid epidemic because they are in regular contact with their patients who trust them.

Dupilumab has been granted priority review as an add-on maintenance treatment for children aged 6 to 11 years with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis whose disease is not adequately controlled with topical prescription therapies.

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Robust data show the efficacy of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate with emtricitabine for pre-exposure prophylaxis in all priority populations with a risk for HIV.

As COPD progresses, patients can experience exacerbations leading to a decreased quality of life and increased costs.

The study was the first to explore sociodemographic disparities in young adult patients with colorectal cancer.

Why is DT, a female patient, taking finasteride?

FIRST Omeprazole Kits offer a pre-measured option for pharmacists dispensing suspended Omeprazole.

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Report demonstrates an increase in generic and new drug approvals, Orphan Drug designations, and an increase in the use of expediated approval programs.

Fidaxomicin is a macrolide antibacterial medicine indicated to be used to treat infections that are proven or strongly suspected to be caused by C. difficile.

Two large studies demonstrating patient-reported outcomes showed that quality of life was maintained longer with newer drug combinations compared with standard of care for the treatment of patients with a specific type of colorectal cancer (CRC) and unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The results were presented at the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium in San Francisco, California, from January 23-25.

Mark Vogler, RPh, is the owner of Martin-Tipton Pharmacy in Amarillo, TX. It is a high-volume pharmacy, doing about twice as many prescriptions per day as the national average.

Proposal seeks to provide different benefits and more stringent requirements than traditional Medicaid.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) leads in hospital costs, physician services, and prescription drugs.

Jeffrey Fudin, PharmD, DAIPM, FASHP, FFSMB, discusses best uses for opioids, and when to use other pain medications.

A blood-based screening test using cell-free DNA may be able to identify cancer at earlier stages than what was previously possible, according to research to be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, held January 23 to 25 in San Francisco.

The CDC is making strides toward better understanding the pneumonia-like coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that originated in Wuhan, China.

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Shared decision making is a tool used by health care professionals to educate more thoroughly, and communicate with their patients.

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