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Transitions Magazine

Transitions is published bi-monthly for members of the APhA New Practitioner Network. The online newsletter contains information focused on life inside and outside pharmacy practice, providing guidance on various areas of professional, personal, and practice development. Each issue includes in-depth articles on such topics as personal financial management, innovative practice sites, career profiles, career development tools, residency and postgraduate programs, and more.

State of hepatitis C being cured is dismal for patients

Monday, July 24, 2023 0 5840

According to a new CDC report, only one-third of individuals with documented hepatitis C diagnosis were cured over the past decade. Based on data which spanned from 2013 to 2022, the report also found that for patients without health insurance under the age of 40 years, only 1 in 6 have been cured.

Weekly insulin found safe, effective for T2D

Monday, July 24, 2023 0 5669

New research published in JAMA shows that once-weekly insulin icodec is safe for people with T2D. It also showed that individuals with T2D who used insulin icodec maintained healthier blood glucose levels compared with people who received daily injections of insulin degludec.

Researchers highlight ‘vital role’ of community pharmacists in public...

Community pharmacies in the United States “played a vital role in the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” said a new...

Almost one-half of Americans would spend $100 a month for weight loss drugs

Nearly one-half of Americans said they would be willing to spend up to $100 a month for new weight loss medicines such as semaglutide...

Diabetes will be ‘a defining disease of this century,’ global cases set...

The prevalence of diabetes is expected to more than double by 2050, according to a new Lancetstudy. Approximately 1 in 10 people worldwide at that...

E-cigarette sales climb, according to new report

Sales of e-cigarettes increased by almost 50% from 2020 to 2022, according to a report published in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly...

CDC’s ACIP recommends older adults ‘may’ get RSV vaccine

Members of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines for older...

CDC highlights drugs costs in new report

A new report from CDC indicates that millions of U.S. adults are not taking their medications as prescribed due to costs.

Monday, June 12, 2023

Researchers better define long COVID

To better identify people with long COVID, researchers have identified 12 distinguishing symptoms and have developed a symptom-based scoring system.

Monday, June 12, 2023

Ketamine works just as well as “gold standard” for treatment-resistant major depression, says study

A new study published in NEJM adds to the growing body of research on the effectiveness of ketamine for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Results from the ELEKT-D randomized trial found that when it came to improving treatment-resistant major depression in outpatients without psychotic features, ketamine worked just as well as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).

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State of hepatitis C being cured is dismal for patients

Weekly insulin found safe, effective for T2D

Researchers highlight ‘vital role’ of community pharmacists in public...

Almost one-half of Americans would spend $100 a month for weight loss drugs

Diabetes will be ‘a defining disease of this century,’ global cases set...

E-cigarette sales climb, according to new report

CDC’s ACIP recommends older adults ‘may’ get RSV vaccine

CDC highlights drugs costs in new report

Researchers better define long COVID

Ketamine works just as well as “gold standard” for treatment-resistant major depression, says study

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