Most states have consumer protection laws that authorize lawsuits against retailers who represent their products as having characteristics that the products actually do not have.

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD

Although current treatments for patients with Parkinson disease (PD) exist, there are no known treatments that slow disease progression.

Eighty percent of patients hospitalized during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic were prescribed antibiotics on admission even though the antimicrobial drugs were rarely indicated at that point.

Sonya Collins

Investigators studied perioperative gabapentin use to better understand if nonopioid use in multimodal analgesia would be beneficial in reducing opioid use and its adverse effects to improve pain control safely.

Clarissa Chan, PharmD

The Institute for Safe Medicine Practices (ISMP) updates its Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals list biannually.

Olivia C. Welter, PharmD

Randomized controlled trials that investigate the optimal parameters of fluid resuscitation in acute pancreatitis—such as the rate of infusion or the total volume of fluid to be infused—remain scarce.

Jennifer Garson, 2023 PharmD candidate at Purdue University College of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Intern, Walgreens, Lafayette, IN

People in the United States still struggle to access sexual and reproductive health care, as evidenced by the unintended pregnancy rate of 45%.

Ashley H. Meredith, PharmD, MPH, BCACP, BCPS, CDCES, FCCP