High-intensity statins underused with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Sep 19, 2023
The authors say that the findings show gaps between practice and guideline-based care.
FDA: Patients should be cautious when using online pharmacies to buy meds
Nov 18, 2022
Red flags include pharmacies that do not require a doctor’s prescription or have a licensed pharmacist to answer questions.
Heart, diabetes, cancer drugs on list for Medicare price negotiations, White House says
Aug 29, 2023
Enrollees in the Medicare prescription drug program paid a total of $3.4 billion in out-of-pocket costs in 2022 for the 10 initial drugs chosen for price negotiations.
Company seeks FDA approval for MDMA as treatment for PTSD
Dec 13, 2023
“If approved, MDMA-assisted therapy would be the first psychedelic-assisted therapy, which we hope will drive additional investment into new research in mental health.”
Eli Lilly reports temporary shortage of Humalog and Insulin Lispro Injection
Mar 25, 2024
Products are expected to be out of stock at wholesalers and pharmacies through the beginning of April.
Semaglutide cuts risk for kidney outcomes, death in CKD with T2DM
May 31, 2024
A reduction was seen in risk for clinically important kidney outcomes and death from cardiovascular causes.
Nurse practitioners no more likely than doctors to prescribe inappropriately
Oct 23, 2023
Nurse practitioners were overrepresented among clinicians with the highest and lowest rates of inappropriate prescribing.
Limiting acetaminophen dose in combo medications beneficial
Mar 13, 2023
Limiting acetaminophen in prescription acetaminophen and opioid products is linked to a reduction in the rate of hospitalization and proportion of acute liver failure cases.
Medically advised aspirin use lower in 2021 than 2012 to 2017
Jun 24, 2024
Compared with 2012 to 2017, in 2021, medically advised aspirin use for primary prevention was lower (19.3 versus 27.6 to 31.2% among adults aged 60 to 69 years; 30.6 versus 38.35 to 41.6% among those aged...
Doxycycline tied to lower risk for C. difficile in pneumonia patients
Nov 30, 2023
The incidence of C. difficile infection was reduced by 45% with doxycycline among patients with a prior history of CDI.