CDC released a 2024 update to its evidence-based guidance for health care providers related to contraceptive use by their patients.

Interventions led by pharmacists and community health workers are most likely to help patients with hypertension achieve disease control, according to research published July 19, 2024, in the American Heart Association’s (AHA’s) journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

On April 22, 2024, Iowa governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law that updates the state’s pharmacy practice act and puts in place a standard of care regulatory framework, aligning pharmacists with other providers in the state.

CDC now recommends that older adults who were not immunized against RSV last year, when vaccines first became available, do so late this summer or early this fall ahead of the upcoming RSV season.

Pharmacists’ research is spreading to wider audiences, according to new data. JAPhA’s impact factor, a measure of the importance of a journal based on article citations, has increased substantially.