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Pharmacy Schools Should Prepare Students for Workforce Challenges

Drug Topics

2 “The number of working pharmacists peaked in 2019, and the profession’s unemployment rate reached around 5% that same year. Most of the students observed burnout among community chain pharmacists (90%), then community independent (69%), and hospital and health system (65%). But in 2024, that number fell to just 2.8%.”

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Extremely Severe Pediatric Obesity Prevalence Increased Over Last 15 Years

Drug Topics

2 Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists keep growing in popularity, and at the American Diabetes Association’s 85th Scientific Sessions, investigators showed the increase in pediatric patients with type 2 diabetes from 2019 to 2024. in 2019 to 60.9% The GLP-1 prescriptions among this patient population increased from 12.3%

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Nitrosamine contamination in medicines: risk, regulation and reality

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

6 By early 2019, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) set interim limits for nitrosamines in APIs, allowing a two-year transition before stricter thresholds took effect. EC decision number (2019) 2698 of 02 Apr 2019. 6 EMA/351053/2019 rev 1. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2019;164:536–49. 5 EMEA/H/A-31/1471. 7 EMEA/H/A-31/1491.

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A decade of driving medicines optimisation innovation in clinical pharmacy

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Running from 1 November 2019 to 31 December 2023, the project tested the abilities of digital tools, including robotics and smart devices, to support older citizens living in their own homes to maintain a high-quality standard of living. The overall aim was to embed a single approach for polypharmacy management and adherence.

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New Frontline BTK Inhibitor Strategy Gains FDA Approval in Untreated Mantle Cell Lymphoma

Pharmacy Times

November 21, 2019. Effect of acalabrutinib in combination with bendamustine plus rituximab on survival endpoints in older patients with mantle cell lymphoma: insights from the ECHO trial. healthbook TIMES Onco Hema. 2024;22(4):22-29. doi:10.36000/HBT.OH.2024.22.163 ClinicalTrials.gov. Updated February 19, 2025. Accessed May 14, 2025.

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Under the Weather: Unpacking the Impact of the 2024-2025 Influenza Season

Pharmacy Times

Fournier, BSc Key Takeaways The 2024-2025 influenza season saw unprecedented severity, with high hospitalization and outpatient visit rates due to a vaccine mismatch and dominant H1N1 and H3N2 strains. 1 The US also reported the highest rates of hospitalizations and outpatient visits for flulike illnesses in 15 years.

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Pharmacists Push Forward: Innovative Clinical Solutions Highlighted at McKesson ideaShare 2025

Pharmacy Times

1 Howard’s team built their telehealth service in collaboration with hospitals and health systems, especially to tackle the issue of hospital readmissions for Medicare and Medicaid patients—each of which can cost hospitals thousands of dollars. May 9, 2019. Presented at: McKesson ideaShare 2025. News release.