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

Drug Topics

The first resource is the CDC’s Yellow Book. The Immunization Action Coalition also has a travel vaccine section on its website with many resources. Depending on the pharmacy practice act for your state, you may or may not be able to provide all vaccinations recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

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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. The FDA Approval Process Within the FDA approval process, the 505(b)(1) new drug application (NDA) submission pathway is the pathway by which new drugs are able to seek approval.

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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. Potential Roles of the Oncology Pharmacist My friend died of his metastatic cancer in early 2025.

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Resident Mental Health Matters

Pharmacy Times

I took her advice and celebrated by starting a new book and going to a nice dinner with my husband, which was much needed. My preceptor said, “[Because] you finished your fall seminar, your goal this weekend is to take a break for a day and to take some time to celebrate your accomplishment.”

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about the gray market for obesity meds, an RSV drug recommendation, and more

STAT

If the weather does not cooperate, there is always a good book or the telly. Shipments of such active ingredients from Chinese entities not registered with the FDA jumped by 44% in January from the previous month, according to the Partnership for Safe Medicines, an industry group. Enflonsia was approved by the FDA in early June.

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Low Dose Naltrexone and Hashimoto’s

The Thyroid Pharmacist

You may be familiar with naltrexone, which is an FDA-approved medication that has been used since the 1980s for opioid withdrawal. However, low doses of this medication (hence, low dose naltrexone or LDN), have been found to modulate the immune system and have shown promise in improving cases of autoimmune disease. Doses of 1.5-4.5