Over the course of the pandemic, researchers raced to find effective treatments for patients with COVID-19.

Lauren Howell, PharmD

According to CDC, 8.4% of adults took sleep medication either every day or most days to help them fall or stay asleep in 2020.

Mary Warner

S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAMe) is a compound found naturally in the body, produced in the liver.

Mickie Cathers

For years, patients with asthma have been prescribed regimens that include several different inhalers, requiring them to remember the correct timing and situation for using each one.

Lauren Howell, PharmD

The latest CDC data find that deaths involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl increased by a staggering 80% over the past 2 years. These drugs were involved in more than two-thirds of the overdose deaths in the year ending March 2022.

Loren Bonner

Ninety-five percent of gabapentin prescriptions are written for off-label pain management, despite studies questioning gabapentin’s effectiveness for managing pain, and reports of its misuse with simultaneous opioid therapy.

Loren Bonner

Too often, clinicians question whether they are making the right decision about a patient’s anticoagulation therapy with planned, nonemergent surgical procedures.

Ariel L. Clark, PharmD

For pharmacists like Candis Morello who are treating patients using GLP-1 receptor agonists, it’s been a challenging few months navigating the shortage of this class of medications.

The value in expansion and protection of pharmacy technicians’ capabilities provided by the ninth amendment to the PREP Act has been incalculable in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) recommendations from the International Antiviral Society from December 2022 highlight novel long-acting injectables for PrEP and HIV treatment.

Clarissa Chan, PharmD