The conference highlighted recent advances in the diagnosis and management of obesity, endocrine disorders, diabetes, and growth hormone and thyroid diseases.
Long-term care pharmacies forced to borrow to buy resident drugs, close as intermediaries tighten grip...
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 08, 2024
Long-term care resident access to prescription drugs is being squeezed as several market and regulatory factors have combined to increase the power that pharmacy benefit managers have over the specialized...
Expanded use of Xolair to treat food allergies approved by the FDA
Feb 17, 2024
Xolair is not meant to substitute for emergency anaphylaxis medications such as the EpiPen.
Diabetes drug maker sues over compounded versions of Mounjaro
Sep 20, 2023
The lawsuits are meant to stop the other companies from “the unlawful marketing and sale of non-FDA approved compounded products.”
Rice-sized device could have big implications for brain tumor treatments
By
Aaron Dorman
Sep 12, 2023
A small implantable device, the size of a grain of rice, could be placed in the brain of cancer patients to help develop treatments, new research suggests.
AI helps prevent prescription dosing errors
By
Christine Birkner
Jun 02, 2023
Software company DrFirst developed an AI-powered tool to streamline medication refill and renewal requests.
Medication managed by AI can help patients feel better, study shows
By
Aaron Dorman
Aug 02, 2023
New research on an AI-tool for medication management showed cost savings and effective decision-making for high-risk patients.
Fatal drug overdoses quadrupled from 1999 to 2020
Sep 19, 2023
The highest rate increases were seen in white and Native American or Alaskan Native individuals and in the Midwest and nonmetro areas.
Being in good shape tied to fewer mental health Rx
Sep 11, 2023
There was not an association noted between a reduced risk for medication use for adults aged 65 or more years.
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.