Opportunistic Infections: Better Have a Pharmacist Onboard
December 19th 2016Approximately 1.2 million individuals live with HIV/AIDS in the United States. This population is at an increased risk of opportunistic infections (OIs), an area where pharmacists have significant potential to make meaningful interventions.
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Low Vaccination Rates? Try The 4 Pillars
December 19th 2016Healthy People 2020, the national health promotion and disease intervention initiative, set the goal influenza vaccination rate in the community at 70%. Despite this goal, reports show that vaccination rates are way under expectations at 44%.
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FDA Removes Warnings on Smoking-Cessation Medication
December 17th 2016Removal of the boxed warning is based on the outcomes of EAGLES (Evaluating Adverse Events in a Global Smoking Cessation Study), which is a randomized, blinded, active- and placebo-controlled clinical trial, in patients without and with a history of psychiatric disorder.
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