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Passport to Protection: Best Practices for Travel Vaccines in the Pharmacy Setting

Drug Topics

Garofoli, PharmD, BCACP, CTTS, FAPhA Publication Article Drug Topics Journal Drug Topics May/June 2025 Volume 169 Issue 03 Pharmacy team members can help patients prepare for upcoming travels, ensuring they are up to date with the recommended vaccines for their locations. The first resource is the CDC’s Yellow Book.

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FDA to Evaluate Merck’s Doravirine, Islatravir Regimen for HIV-1

Drug Topics

The FDA has accepted for review a New Drug Application (NDA) for doravirine/islatravir for adult patients with HIV-1 infection that is virologically suppressed on antiretroviral therapy, Merck announced in a release. 1 The FDA set a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date of April 28, 2026. References 1. Subscribe Now!

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Turning Reconciliation into a Revenue Growth Engine

Drug Topics

With rising drug costs, evolving health care regulations, and challenging reimbursement models, pharmacies must adopt strategic approaches to maintain financial health and continue providing patient care.

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FDA Approves Clesrovimab-cfor for Prevention of RSV in Infants

Drug Topics

Patients were included if they were a healthy early or moderate pre-term infant or late pre-term or full-term infant. Exclusion criteria included having a bleeding disorder or having received any vaccine or monoclonal antibody for the prevention of RSV. References 1.

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Pneumococcal Burden Remains Despite Immunization Expansion

Drug Topics

Investigators found that incorporating either the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) 20 or PCV 15 and the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) had an incremental budget impact of $6.5 2,3 In June 2024, the ACIP announced updates to the vaccine schedule to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease.

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Op-Ed: Celebrate Direct-to-Career Paths and Primary Care Pharmacy Practice

Pharmacy Times

All graduates should be ready for this, as our present Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Standards explicitly states: "Ensure that graduating students are ‘practice-ready’ and ‘team-ready,’ that is, prepared to directly contribute to patient care working in collaboration with other health care providers."

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Meet the 2023 Social Impact Category Winner: Takeda SA

ISPE

For more than 240 years, Takeda has focused on delivering transformative treatments in the therapeutic areas of gastrointestinal and inflammation, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, neuroscience, and vaccines. Takeda has reduced CO2 emission by 861 tons.