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Improving Diabetes Management: Coordinated Care
Troy Trygstad, PharmD, MBA, PhD: What’s your assessment of the effect on the patient—out there in the frontlines, in the community—where you’re seeing that patient many, many times a year, when you have that...
read moreThree Questions About Asthma
Uncontrolled asthma is rampant. When any asthma patient visits the pharmacy to have prescriptions filled, he or she is considerably more likely to have uncontrolled asthma than to have well controlled disease. Community pharmacists should recognize...
read moreGuidelines Discuss Treatment Options for Patients with HIV, Cancer
Disparity in cancer care for patients with HIV and those who do not have HIV is large and significant, and new guidelines released by the The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) aim to ensure that people living with HIV who are diagnosed...
read moreSpecialty pharmacy now runs the healthcare gamut
Specialty pharmacy is no longer simply set apart by the medication it dispenses. As a result of the patients it serves — whose conditions span disease states from oncology and rare diseases to cystic fibrosis and others that require high-cost,...
read moreSpecialty Pharmacy Will Gain a Bigger Chunk of U.S. Pharmaceuticals
The specialty pharmacy market will continue to gain ground within the overall pharmaceutical market, according to a report from the HDA Research Foundation. In 2016, specialty pharmacy was 40% of the $450 billion pharmaceutical market, compared to...
read more50 Best Pharmacy Schools Ranked in 2016
Where does your pharmacy school or alma mater rank among others? The 50 Best Pharmacy Schools Ranked in 2016 US News & World Report just released its 2016 rankings of the best pharmacy schools in the nation. Schools were ranked on a scale from...
read moreBreast Cancer Studies Pharmacists Should Know
Breast cancer is a disease in which there is uncontrolled growth of breast cells. It’s estimated that approximately 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime and just under 40,000 women will die from the...
read moreFactors in Treating Type 2 Diabetes
Important Factors in Treating Type 2 Diabetes | Experts Dhiren Patel, PharmD, CDE, BC-ADM, BCACP, and Javier Morales, MD, review key understandings for both patients and providers regarding the optimal management of type 2 diabetes, including...
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