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July 2024

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Volume 30, Issue 7

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Practice & Trends

Uniting for better access to OTC birth control in pharmacies

On The Cover

Uniting for better access to OTC birth control in pharmacies

“It’s a big step to have contraception available over the counter to help navigate some areas where reproductive health care might be limited,” said Lauren Lakdawala, PharmD, from Johns Hopkins Outpatient Specialty Pharmacy, during a packed presentation at APhA’s 2024 Annual Meeting & Exposition on hormonal contraception. The overturn of Roe v Wade affected reproductive health care nationally, she noted.

Loren Bonner

New immunization schedules: Roadmap to increasing coverage

Immunization Update

New immunization schedules: Roadmap to increasing coverage

Immunization recommendations are complex, change frequently, and can be difficult to implement. Each year, ACIP recommendations and updates are summarized and consolidated into an immunization schedule to support health care providers with putting the recommendations into practice.

Jean-Venable “Kelly” R. Goode, PharmD

 

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News Roundup

Bulletin Today

News Roundup

Under new law, pharmacist scope of practice expands in Tennessee. Fentanyl tablet seizures have quadrupled in the last 6 year. UF Health will lead CDC-backed hypertension pharmacists’ program. Coming off GLP-1s slowly could be key to preventing weight regain. 

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Drugs & Diseases

Ear wax removal

OTCs Today

Ear wax removal

Cerumen, or earwax, consists of a mixture of sebum, an oily secretion from the exocrine glands, and a milky, fatty fluid from the apocrine glands. It’s a naturally occurring substance that cleans, protects, and lubricates the ear canal. But when too much cerumen is present or becomes impacted, it can cause pain and itching.

Mary Warner

Rezdiffra for liver scarring

New Drug

Rezdiffra for liver scarring

In March 2024, FDA approved the first treatment option for adults with liver scarring due to fatty liver disease. Rezdiffra (resmetirom-Madrigal Pharmaceuticals) provides an option for patients with liver scarring, who previously did not have a medication option that would address liver damage.

Lauren Howell, PharmD

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Health Systems

Trending Topics in Health-System Pharmacy

Inpatient Insights

Trending Topics in Health-System Pharmacy

Although β-blockers are associated with decreased mortality in patients with CVD, some patients with COPD who received metoprolol in the BLOCK-COPD trial experienced increased risk of exacerbations requiring hospitalization, raising questions about the overall risk and benefit in patients with COPD following acute myocardial infarction (MI).

Antibiotics

Hospitals slow to use newer gram-negative antibiotics

FDA approved seven next-generation gram-negative antibiotics between 2014 and 2019. Yet a study published in the May 2024 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine found that between 2016 and 2021, clinicians in 619 U.S. hospitals treated more than 40% of patients who had highly antibiotic-resistant pathogens exclusively with older, generic agents. Furthermore, most of these older agents had known suboptimal safety and/or efficacy.

Terri D’Arrigo

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CPE

Seeing the unseen: Human trafficking
CPE

CPE

Seeing the unseen: Human trafficking

Human trafficking is a federal crime that has been defined as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.” The most vulnerable victims are typically women and children; however, victims can be any age and gender.

Laura Palombi, PharmD, MPH, MAT

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