On March 24, Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI), Congressman David B. McKinley (R-WV), Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), and Congressman Buddy Carter (R-GA) introduced the Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act, a groundbreaking piece of legislation that would allow Medicare patients to continue to receive treatment from pharmacists for pandemic-related health services and would permit pharmacists to respond to ongoing and future public health crises.

We’ll see soon that digital health is simply health care, said Daniel Zlott, PharmD, APhA’s senior vice president of education and business development, during APhA’s second annual DigitalHealth.Rx summit, which was held in-person on March 17, in conjunction with APhA2022 in San Antonio, TX.

According to outpatient clinical trial results recently published in Gut, the common heartburn medication Pepcid (famotidine) could improve the recovery of symptomatic patients diagnosed with COVID-19.

An estimated one in three Americans struggles to afford their medical bills. Who do they go to for help finding solutions to this common problem? “My physician” is the typical answer. But according to a recent study published in JAMA, few are equipped to help.

The health care disruptions created by the public health emergency have revived interest in identifying opportunities to optimize pharmacists’ roles.