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FDA Mandates Safety Alterations to Opioid Pain Medication Labels

PharmExec

New labels will include study summaries, improved dosage warnings, and information on overdose reversal agents to enhance patient and healthcare professional awareness. The FDA mandates randomized clinical trials to assess long-term opioid use benefits and risks, ensuring timely and efficient completion.

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Understanding Recent Changes to 505(b)(2) Drugs and Reimbursement

Pharmacy Times

The Orange Book is the reference, and it allows the FDA to declare something [to be] therapeutically equivalent. Additionally, ANDA submissions should extrapolate the RLD safety and effectiveness data for drugs with the same active ingredients, dosage forms, strengths, routes, and labeling.

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How to help patients get ready for summer

The Checkup by Singlecare

When the weather warms up, many people start making plans: booking summer vacations, signing kids up for summer camp, or preparing for international travel. Here are practical ways pharmacists can support patients as they get ready to pack their bags.

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Unicorns Don’t Exist: Rethinking the Generalist Model in Oncology Pharmacy

Pharmacy Times

But together, they contribute to the ever-expanding expectation that oncology pharmacists should “know all the things,” an emotion aptly captured by Allie Brosh in her book Hyperbole and a Half. Touchstone Books; 2013. Time Enough for Love. Putnam’s Sons; 1973. Rao KV, Gulbis AM, Mahmoudjafari Z.

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Investigating the Pharmacist’s Role in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy for Patients With Cancer

Pharmacy Times

In the 2017 book The Big Picture , author Sean Carroll seamlessly blends the scientific with the philosophical and comments that “life is not a substance, like water or rock; it’s a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore.

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LENZ Therapeutics’ Presbyopia Treatment VIZZ Receives FDA Approval in the U.S.

PharmExec

This demonstrated Vizz’s ability to improve near sighted vison within 30 minutes of dosage, with an active timeframe upwards of 10 hours.

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What You Need to Know as a Breastfeeding Hashi’s Mama

The Thyroid Pharmacist

Women with treated thyroid conditions will likely need to adjust their medication dosage, perhaps multiple times. The book Making More Milk is a great resource and provides some guidance in stimulating mammary tissue development. If they look familiar, please email me the name of the book so I can give credit where credit is due!).