In a Pulsepoint interview with Pharmacy Times, Jennifer MacDonald, PharmD, BCOP, discusses ovarian cancer guideline updates and pharmacists’ role in selecting therapies, managing toxicities, and preserving patients’ quality of life.
Three experts say that misconceptions and fear can lead patients to stop lifesaving cardiac medications during pregnancy, and they explain how to weigh risks and benefits with reliable resources.
The question in frontline Ph+ ALL is no longer whether to use a TKI. It’s which one, and what to pair it with.
Survodutide met noninferiority for 5-point MACE, supporting its safety in adults with obesity and established CV disease or elevated risk.
Kristen Hartzell, PharmD, explains that advance data collection, pre-filled consent forms, and peer and vendor support can help long-term care pharmacies run more efficient flu vaccine clinics for older adults.
Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, explains why survodutide's glucagon component called for a dedicated noninferiority trial in adults with obesity.
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Brooke Hudspeth, PharmD, explains how pharmacists help patients link glucose trends to meals, activity, medications, and medication timing.
In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Matthew Peery, PharmD, BCOP, discusses how updated chronic lymphocytic leukemia guidelines inform treatment selection and how pharmacists help patients manage adverse effects, navigate complex dosing schedules, and access medications.
Optimal medical therapy scores, discharge prescribing, and readmissions data can help pharmacists demonstrate the value of heart failure services.
Cody Parsons, PharmD, APh, BCCCP, says protected pharmacist access lets patients with heart failure be seen more often than typical clinic visits allow.
Cody Parsons, PharmD, APh, BCCCP, explains how the AHA's 40-hospital collaborative is mapping care gaps for patients with HFpEF and HFmrEF.
Without head-to-head trials, clinical data, payer requirements, and clinician comfort determine first-line regimen selection, while markers such as KEAP1 and STK11 prompt questions about adding a CTLA-4 inhibitor.
Pembrolizumab and cemiplimab dominate frontline practice, yet approval thresholds, histology-specific backbones, and formulations keep clinicians from treating PD-1 agents as fully interchangeable in the absence of head-to-head data.
Multidisciplinary institutional guidelines, more education and advocacy from pharmacists, national consensus guidance, and clinical trials that use the newer equations are needed in the hematology/oncology space.
The panelists recommend cross-comparing equations, deciding doses with the care team, and watching for patients at high risk of inaccurate estimates when moving chemotherapy dosing from Cockcroft-Gault to eGFR.
Kristen Hartzell, PharmD, explains that long-term care pharmacies can counter vaccine fatigue and raise influenza vaccination rates among older adults.
Moving from Cockcroft-Gault to race-agnostic estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) for drug dosing is slowed by older trial data, inconsistent package inserts, gaps in education, and the work of updating EHR order sets.
C difficile survivor Caitlin McClain discusses the Peggy Lillis Foundation’s patient support and policy work, the need for new antibiotics and stronger stewardship, and the lasting psychological impact of the disease.
C difficile survivor Caitlin McClain describes how pharmacists helped secure her fidaxomicin supply and guide her recovery.
Brooke Hudspeth, PharmD, explains why community pharmacists, often the source of meters and supplies, are well positioned to guide new testers.
Caitlin McClain describes how months of unrecognized C difficile infection after antibiotic treatment led to septic shock, failed fecal transplants, and, eventually, a successful donor-directed fecal microbiota transplant.
Learn how chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy can strain the heart—key symptoms, high-risk drugs, and monitoring steps that protect patients.
Cystatin C is gaining ground in kidney guidelines and medication research, but a unified approach to using it in drug dosing has yet to emerge.
Creatinine's kinetic profile and nonrenal determinants can leave clinicians behind as kidney function declines or recovers in critically ill patients.
Christina O'Connor, PharmD, advises at least 2 g ceftriaxone every 24 hours and considering alternatives to ertapenem in select critically ill patients.
With AI handling manual calls and clinical notes, pharmacists and technicians can refocus on getting patients to care and keeping them on therapy.
At issue is whether faster clearance of unbound drug shortens free time above the minimum inhibitory concentration, a question with substantial literature and strong opinions on both sides.
Sita Bhatt, PharmD, explains how new lung cancer therapies and oral oncology programs are expanding pharmacists’ roles in education, toxicity management, and access for underserved patients.
