Looking Ahead: Research Priorities and Final Insights
June 20th 2025Panelists discuss how advancing chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) management involves improving steroid response rates, exploring combination therapies, utilizing biomarkers for personalized treatment, and striving for steroid-free first-line options to enhance patient outcomes and reduce long-term adverse effects.
Multidisciplinary Collaboration in cGVHD Care
June 20th 2025Panelists discuss how collaboration between pharmacists and health care providers is essential for optimizing treatment outcomes in chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD), emphasizing the importance of education, symptom management, and a multidisciplinary approach to ensure comprehensive, patient-tailored care.
Pharmacy Advocacy in Action: How Pharmacists Can Influence Policy and Expand Their Scope of Practice
June 19th 2025In today’s rapidly evolving health care landscape, pharmacists are playing an increasingly vital role in patient care—but many policymakers remain unaware of the full scope of their expertise and contributions.
Psychedelic Science 2025: Clinical Perspectives on Psychedelics in Palliative Oncology
June 16th 2025Manish Agrawal, MD, discusses emerging research on psychedelic-assisted therapy for patients with cancer, including innovative dyadic treatment models, challenges in capturing meaningful outcomes, and growing interest in integrating psychedelics into oncology and palliative care.
Expert: Strategies for CIDP Medication Adherence and Emerging Treatment Innovations
June 14th 2025Amy Duong, PharmD, BCACP, explains pharmacists' critical role in promoting chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy (CIDP) treatment adherence and staying informed about new therapeutic developments.
Pharmacist-Led Interventions for Adherence and Optimization
June 13th 2025Panelists discuss how pharmacists improve patient outcomes in chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) by addressing accessibility and tolerability challenges, optimizing drug regimens, managing adherence, and fostering trust with patients to ensure consistent therapy and long-term success.
Overcoming Barriers to Access and Treatment
June 13th 2025Panelists discuss how pharmacists are essential in managing chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) by addressing challenges like toxicity, financial and logistical barriers, and a lack of awareness, while advocating for patient education, collaboration with health care teams, and ensuring access to necessary therapies.
Future Considerations for the Management of Hyperlipidemia
June 10th 2025Panelists discuss how anticipated updates to cholesterol guidelines and related cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic health (CKM) guidelines this year are expected to shape low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) management strategies and influence treatment recommendations for high-risk patients.
Policy Shifts Ahead: Expert Reviews Key Legislative Trends Reshaping Health-System Pharmacy
June 9th 2025As policy developments unfold rapidly at both the state and federal levels, Tom Kraus highlights the expanding scope of pharmacist practice through a wave of state-level legislation as a key opportunity.
Sequencing Strategies and the Role of Combination Therapy
June 6th 2025Panelists discuss how evolving treatment pathways at Emory Healthcare, including earlier use of emerging therapies and off-label combination treatments, are shaping the management of chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD), with an emphasis on personalizing therapy based on real-world data and patient-specific factors.
Additional Considerations for LDL-C–Lowering Therapies
June 3rd 2025Panelists discuss how key clinical and economic factors, such as efficacy, safety, cost-effectiveness, patient adherence, and proper monitoring, should be considered when evaluating new low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C)–lowering medications for formulary inclusion, and how health care teams can optimize therapy management through patient counseling, monitoring, and coordination of injection therapies to improve outcomes.
Monitoring Patients for Adverse Events and Optimizing Access to Therapies
June 3rd 2025Panelists discuss how ongoing monitoring and individualized treatment adjustments can help mitigate adverse events associated with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C)–lowering therapies while maintaining efficacy and explore strategies to navigate insurance barriers and ensure timely access to nonstatin LDL-C–lowering medications.
ASCO 2025: Oncology Pathway Tools Show Consistent Usage Across Patient Groups
June 2nd 2025Laura Momoko Asakura, PharmD, BCOP, BCSPS, discusses the equitable use of oncology treatment pathway tools, highlighting that their utilization remains consistent across patient groups regardless of race, ethnicity, or insurance status.
NLA 2025: Managing Omega-3 Therapy With Statins, PCSK9 Inhibitors for Cardiovascular Care
June 2nd 2025Frank Qian, MD, MPH, discusses the integration of omega-3 fatty acid therapy alongside statins and PCSK9 inhibitors in cardiovascular risk management, highlighting the distinct mechanisms of benefit and lack of significant drug interactions.