Coronavirus

COVID-19 vaccine recommendations have parallel tracks for adults and parallel tracks for children broken down into whether an individual is immunocompromised.

Baricitinib (Olumiant) is indicated for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and COVID-19 in hospitalized adults.

The FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted nearly unanimously for an emergency use authorization for the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, NVX-CoV2373, for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.

Pharmacies can help bring inequities plaguing health care systems to an end to ensure the COVID-19 pandemic does not follow trends of inequity experienced in the HIV pandemic.

The application submission paves the way for a potential decision as early as this month.

Research suggests that individuals receiving a vaccine, such as ones from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, were more vulnerable to infection by new variants.

Using machine learning, they find patterns in electronic health record data to help ascertain which individuals likely have the condition.

Consequences for untreated STEMI patients following the COVID-19 pandemic could include increased mortality, heart failure, and morbidities.

Dong Xu, PhD, MS, curators' distinguished professor at the University of Missouri College of Engineering, discusses how the use of artificial intelligence may help develop new drug therapies targeting multiple disease states.

The vaccine is also credited with saving more than $30 billion in health care costs and more than $40 billion in lost productivity.

Murray Aitken, executive director of IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, discusses the implications of the increase in spending on medicines in the United States in 2021.

Some states are pushing to increase scope of practice, expand programs.

Antibody levels against SARS-CoV-2 1 month after the booster dose were increased compared to before the booster dose in children 5 to 11 years of age.

The Labcorp Seasonal Respiratory Virus RT-PCR DTC Test is the first direct-to-consumer multi-analyte COVID-19 test to be authorized by FDA.

Educate patients about how to purchase and store medical products without hoarding resources.

Individuals who have recovered from the initial disease are in generally poorer health later on compared with the general population, the analysis shows.

Aklilu Tedla, vice president of strategy and business development at Cardinal Health, discusses the cell and gene therapies in the pipeline for approval by the FDA.

Larger increases were typically seen in states with fewer deaths related to COVID-19, lower unemployment among women, analysis finds.

Baricitinib (Olumiant) approved for the treatment of adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who require supplemental oxygen, non-invasive or invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Second analysis indicates that parents of children with food allergies became less anxious during the pandemic.

Individuals who are not vaccinated with pre-existing diabetes, heart artery disease, or high blood pressure had a 2- to 3-fold increased risk of death, investigators say.

Findings show that key factors include age, infecting variant, underlying illnesses, and vaccination status.

FDA action was based on an analysis for the risk of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, a rare and potentially life-threatening condition that causes blood clots combined with low levels of blood platelets.

This combination improves patient outcomes of vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia after a COVID-19 vaccination, according to the results of a case analysis.

Although COVID-19 paused our original plans, we were ultimately able to reach more people than we ever could have via in-person presentations alone.

A panel of experts at the Asembia 2022 Specialty Pharmacy Summit discussed some of the obstacles in providing medications approved under Emergency Use Authorization.

For COVID-19 to turn into an endemic, there are a few criteria that must be met.

Study shows that the vaccine candidate demonstrated superior neutralizing antibody titers over the control, Vaxzevria from AstraZeneca.

Patients want more out of community pharmacies in a post-pandemic culture.

An overview for community pharmacies of a process to minimize vaccine errors using a COVID-19 vaccine point of distribution as an example.