This Continuing Education activity is supported by an educational grant from Mallinckrodt.
In recent years, digital health devices have offered pathways for patients to record and send data, which may ultimately encourage the patient to be more interactive in their disease management.
Despite numerous treatment advances, early detection, public education, and smoking cessation are the best bets.
A variety of methods can be used to create an individualized approach to removing barriers for patients with cancer.
Patients with multiple sclerosis who consumed 2 cans of soda per day were 5 times more likely to experience severe disability.
Proposed federal legislation aims to achieve better health outcomes by giving patients with diabetes the freedom to decide which testing supplies work best for them.
Proposed provider status legislation seeks to expand the role of pharmacists in underserved communities.
Based on the principle that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," the pharmacy practices a holistic, prevention-based approach to patient health.
Pharmacists now play an integral role as medication experts of the health care team, ensuring optimal medication use and improving patient health outcomes.
Patients may find it difficult to distinguish between a cold and the flu, and pharmacists can help them determine if self treatment is appropriate.
A new trend is emerging as health system–based specialty pharmacies become a staple in the industry.
Panic and a host of interactions are entwined with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs.
Traditional adherence aids, such as pillboxes and blister packaging, help patients organize their medications by day and time, while new technologies can also address medications not included in pillboxes, such as inhalers and insulin pens.
As a whole, adult vaccination coverage has remained unchanged without significant improvement.
Up to 18% of patients taking warfarin also take acetaminophen, but clinicians may not recognize the potential interaction between the two medications.
Pharmacists' communication activities are critical to improving and maintaining a positive image among the public; therefore, a media plan should be in place in order to reach both broad and narrowly defined audiences.
HER2 is a membrane-bound tyrosine kinase that when amplified contributes significantly to a tumor’s ability to proliferate and survive.
Assessment, interventions, and outcomes information is vital to specialty pharmacy stakeholders.
Keep an eye out for these specialty pipeline medications in 2019.
Nearly 30% of patients with diabetes have reported that injectable insulin was the most difficult part of their care regimen.
Even in a post-apocalyptic world, people still need pharmacists.
This study illustrates the healthcare utilization patterns, direct costs, and sustained virologic response rates associated with interferon-based therapies for hepatitis C patients.