About one in every 30 patients in health care experiences some type of medication-related harm, according to WHO.

Sonya Collins

As medical technology continues to evolve, in-home devices to monitor and detect health conditions are becoming more available and affordable for consumers.

Elizabeth Briand

Community pharmacies are vulnerable to dispensing correctly filled prescriptions to the wrong patient at the point-of-sale.

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Patients who have difficulty obtaining their medications can become fearful, distressed, and disrespectful of pharmacy personnel.

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD

Independent pharmacists in southeastern Pennsylvania have been stepping up to help people who are older and homebound get the vaccinations they need to stay safe year-round.

Elizabeth Briand

In the wake of the nation’s overdose crisis, some medical experts have worried that pain is being undertreated for the country’s youth as pediatricians prescribe fewer opioids.

Loren Bonner

In September 2024, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy along with the National Community Pharmacists Association released a new guideline about buprenorphine access in community pharmacies.

Loren Bonner

Updates from FDA

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Motivated by the growing public health challenges from opioid and alcohol use disorders, researchers may have found one more area where GLP-1 receptor agonists are benefiting patients: curbing addiction.

Loren Bonner

The findings from a systematic review published in the October 2024 issue of Health Affairs revealed that there may be a need for the reevaluation of risks and benefits of the boxed warnings that FDA has applied to antidepressants.

Lauren Howell, PharmD

In a new guideline, the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association (AHA), said that preventing a first stroke may be possible with healthy lifestyle changes along with routine health screenings and certain medications to manage risk factors.

Loren Bonner

Tea tree oil is a popular and widely available essential oil touted for its benefits in supporting skin health and targeting certain bacteria.

Mickie Cathers

Despite numerous campaigns to decrease tobacco use, smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, responsible for over 450,000 deaths each year.

Mary Warner

Thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke significantly improves independent recovery when administered within 4.5 hours of symptom onset. The standard thrombolytic agent for many years has been alteplase, but recent research has shown that tenecteplase may have potential benefits over alteplase because it is administered as a single bolus rather than the alteplase regimen of a bolus followed by 1 hour of maintenance infusion.

Are health care providers generally unfamiliar with which drugs are available at reduced prices in their health care system?

Loren Bonner

A study published in the October 8, 2024, issue of Neurology revealed the benefits and risks of starting dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) with clopidogrel and aspirin within 72 hours of a mild ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA).

Aiya Almogaber, PharmD

A NEJM study published in October 2024 found that finerenone may have a role in the treatment of patients with heart failure and mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction.

Lauren Howell, PharmD

In November 2024, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology published a multisociety guideline on perioperative cardiovascular management for noncardiac surgery (NCS).

Olivia C. Welter, PharmD

Legislative, legal, and regulatory developments affecting pharmacy in 2024

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