Drug Topics

JUNE 9, 2025

In people with asthma or COPD, wildfire smoke exposure is associated with worse symptoms, increased medication use, and increased emergency department visits and hospitalizations,” Wilgus said. During or after a wildfire, I often see patients with lung conditions presenting with worse cough, breathlessness, and wheezing. REFERENCES 1.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 16, 2025

. | Image Credit: Crystal light - stock.adobe.com “Patients suffering from chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps often live with the constant obstruction of their nasal passages that can lead to burdensome nasal congestion and loss of smell,” Eugenio De Corso, MD, PhD, ENT specialist at the A. REFERENCES 1.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 2, 2025

Pharmacists are essential in managing access, patient education, and monitoring outcomes, ensuring adherence and addressing administrative challenges. SHOW MORE Discover how Vyepti revolutionizes migraine prevention with rapid efficacy and strong safety, empowering pharmacists to enhance patient care.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 24, 2025

Beyond that, it’s about sharing clinical experiences—learning how others approach patient care, maybe doing things a little differently or more effectively. It’s incredibly impactful to be in a room full of amazing pharmacists from across the country, reviewing late-breaking ASCO data.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 10, 2025

“RSV disease is the leading cause of infant hospitalization in the US and can lead to serious respiratory conditions like bronchiolitis and pneumonia,” Octavio Ramilo, an investigator on the CLEVER and SMART trials., said in a release. READ MORE: Infectious Disease Resource Center Pharmacy practice is always changing. References 1.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 9, 2025

Their goal was to promote consistent, high-quality, pharmacist-led care by standardizing the way clinical competence is evaluated—both at initial onboarding and as part of ongoing professional development. Using a roadmap strategy, the team established milestones and recruited expert pharmacists involved directly in CPA-driven patient care.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 20, 2025

Coming to meetings and hearing these great presenters in different areas really connects with different parts of my history of patient care. I'm blown away by how quickly new information is brought to this conference and how well the teams break it into actionable insights you can bring back to your patient care.

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SingleCare

AUGUST 4, 2022

Pharmacists are often on the frontlines with patients and can act as a bridge between physicians and patient care. By working in healthy collaboration with physicians, pharmacists can help drive optimal patient outcomes. Patients may also prefer to discuss health issues with pharmacists due to ease of access.

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Viseven

MARCH 25, 2025

In healthcare, business intelligence plays an especially important role, as it can be used to create better treatments, personalize patient care, prevent diseases, keep patients’ personal info safe, and even detect fraud. Healthcare business intelligence software is a must-have for any organization in the industry.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 13, 2025

The authors examined the safety, feasibility, and toxicity management of delivering both SUD and target doses in outpatient settings, offering institutional guidance for optimizing patient care and reducing hospitalization burden.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 20, 2025

Isaacs stresses the critical role of pharmacists in staying informed about these advancements, recommending strategies like attending the conference, accessing virtual options, and sharing new findings through methods like journal clubs to improve patient care. Pharmacy Times: Can you introduce yourself?

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 13, 2025

During the session “Collaborative Practice, Statewide Protocols, and Independent Prescriptive Authority: How Pharmacy is Expanding Services to Increase Access to Patients,” Klepser highlighted the importance of moving beyond product dispensing to provide higher-level services, such as immunizations and medication therapy management.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 2, 2025

In an interview with Pharmacy Times , LeAnne Kennedy, PharmD, BCOP, CPP, FHOPA, oncology clinical manager at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, shares insights about the facility’s Wake Outpatient Transplant Program and highlights its positive impact on patient care outcomes.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 23, 2025

TOC pharmacists enhance medication management, reducing errors and improving patient outcomes through comprehensive care transitions. The study underscores the importance of GDMT at discharge and the potential for pharmacy models to improve healthcare metrics and hospital revenue.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 10, 2025

The convenience of once-daily dosing and a rapid IV bolus administration may offer workflow efficiencies in hospital or surgical settings, where minimizing polypharmacy and streamlining medication administration are important goals.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 19, 2025

1 Biomarker testing is relatively new in the treatment landscape for NSCLC but has proven incredibly important for personalizing patient care, transforming from a generic chemotherapy approach to a highly personalized, genomically driven treatment strategy.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 12, 2025

Darkow noted that, unlike a “typical” medication, biologics are larger, and for these reasons, products can encompass a wide range of types of forms, such as certain vaccines, blood products, monoclonal antibodies, cellular therapies, and insulin. Unlike other medications and treatments, they are not chemically synthesized.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 3, 2025

How will RFK Jr’s American dream for vaccines play out? Experts are emphasising that safeguarding patient data from corporations and cyberattacks is vital for the NHS to create a single health record database. Jefferson added: “Every project must deliver a tangible benefit to patients.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 10, 2025

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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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 16, 2025

A study of 439 patient charts found no significant difference in DTP identification between clinics with and without pharmacists on the care team. The integration of community-based specialty pharmacists into patient care models is crucial for enhancing treatment safety and efficacy.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Progress needs to be made to support the development of hospital pharmacists in clinical service provision, according to the findings of a recent report published by the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP).

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Drug Topics

JUNE 25, 2025

Launched in June 2023, the initiative focused on managing medications for high-risk diabetes patients through a collaborative drug therapy agreement. The pharmacist-led service targeted patients with A 1c levels above 9%, recent diabetes-related hospitalizations, or histories of severe hypoglycemia.

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The Checkup by Singlecare

APRIL 3, 2025

Telepharmacy allows pharmacists to perform healthcare services, such as medication review, patient counseling, drug therapy monitoring, and prescription verification, through telecommunication. This telehealth model resulted in improved patient wait times, higher job satisfaction for pharmacists, and fulfillment of staffing gaps.

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IDStewardship

JUNE 5, 2023

This approach helps to prevent treatment failures, reduce the occurrence of adverse drug reactions, and improve patient safety. Reducing healthcare costs: AMR has economic implications, as it leads to longer hospital stays, increased healthcare resource utilization, and the need for more expensive or second-line drugs.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 27, 2025

Pharmacists stand at the forefront of patient care, making them indispensable in dispelling misinformation that can sometimes surround biosimilars. Their accessibility and expertise perfectly position them to engage in direct conversations with patients, addressing safety, efficacy, and interchangeability concerns.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

MAY 18, 2023

Digital advancements have the potential to revolutionise hospital pharmacy by streamlining processes, improving medication safety and enhancing patient care, a new report from the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) has concluded.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JULY 3, 2025

How will RFK Jr’s American dream for vaccines play out? Calling such venues the “future of the health service”, Starmer said: “Hospitals will always be important, but disease has changed, and we must change with it. Not only can we do that, we can do it in a way that improves care and convenience for millions of people.” .

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DiversifyRx

MARCH 3, 2023

You get to put your unique spin on patient care, making your pharmacy a force to be reckoned with. How close are you to the nearest hospital or urgent care? If you want your pharmacy to be more customer-centric and transaction-focused, being near an urgent care or hospital may be the way to go.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

MARCH 13, 2025

Build an NHS fit for the future Sir James Mackey, who has been named transition CEO of NHS England, said: We know that while unsettling for our staff, todays announcement will bring welcome clarity as we focus on tackling the significant challenges ahead and delivering on the Governments priorities for patients.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 1, 2022

The technology behind virtual reality is rapidly advancing, allowing developers to create entire 3D hospitals for training purposes. When it came to testing written and hands-on tracheostomy care skills, there was a ‘significant trend’ of improvement among those who had used VR simulation. The training challenge. The more you know.

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Hospital Pharmacy Europe

MARCH 13, 2025

The guideline presents opportunities for enhancing patient care and outcomes through greater shared decision-making conversations and improving asthma awareness while addressing concerns and illness beliefs but this may extend consultation time. Lancet Planetary Health 2021;2:E84E92.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 13, 2022

Parisa “Risa” Vatanka, PharmD, CTTS, senior director of corporate alliances at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), tells us about the ideal role of pharmacists in patient care and their effort to gain provider status. . “It’s a shame it’s not equal everywhere,” Vatanka says.

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The Happy PharmD

JANUARY 10, 2025

Pharmacists are drowning under impossible metrics, handling more prescriptions and vaccinations than ever, all while barely finding time to breatheliterally and figuratively. Corporate demands keep piling on, leaving little room for meaningful patient care or even a moment to reflect.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

And investing in the best possible treatment as early as possible can mean quicker recovery for a patient, and delay or remove entirely the need for follow-up treatment. And that, in turn, can reduce the burden on hospitals and systems, and allow healthcare services to focus their resources even more strategically.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 9, 2023

Within the emerging innovation stage, cell therapy for ocular disorders, coronavirus vaccine components, and DNA polymerase compositions are disruptive technologies that are in the early stages of application and should be tracked closely. Seattle Children's Hospital is the leading patent filer in tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

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pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The UK pharma sector should emerge from COVID-19 with a great deal of goodwill in the bank, especially after rapidly developing vaccines that are helping to steer the world out of the pandemic. There are plans by the UK health sector containing bold proposals to modernise patient information storage.

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Oswald's

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After my first year of pharmacy school, the classes started to combine science knowledge with disease states and patient care, which I really loved. In addition to these patient-centered courses, we also learned about drug literature and drug development. Oswald’s is my fourth rotation.

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