Pharmacy Focus - Big Picture for Health-System Pharmacies

Investigational inhaled stem cells for COPD raise questions about lasting clinical benefit and the pharmacy controls needed to deliver a living-cell product through a nebulizer.

A suspected plague death in Russia has renewed attention on the rare infection. Here's how to spot pneumonic plague and which antibiotics the CDC recommends.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, Abdulkader Rahmo, PhD, discusses investigational inhaled cell therapy for COPD, the evidence needed to establish lasting clinical benefit, and pharmacists’ potential role in its delivery.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, City of Hope researchers discuss a preclinical platform designed to redirect CAR T cells after infusion and how pharmacists could help bring this adaptable approach into clinical practice.

Pharmacists can explain the evidence supporting the intramuscular injection, address specific concerns, and help families understand what is known—and what is not known—about oral vitamin K.

William J. Peppard, PharmD, explains how emerging suzetrigine findings after knee arthroplasty connect opioid stewardship with functional recovery and the pharmacist’s role in ensuring treatment access.

In an interview with Pharmacy Times, LINKER-SMM1 study investigator Paula Rodríguez-Otero, MD, PhD, a hematologist at Clínica Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, explains how researchers selected high-risk patients and how she weighs infections against the potential to prevent progression to active disease.

September’s pain management coverage examined postoperative nonopioid options, lessons from sickle cell pain research, and pharmacists’ experiences with controlled-substance prescribing.