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This resource is designed to support pharmacists who provide care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It provides an overview of treatment options, strategies to reduce hospital readmissions, approaches to engage patients with COPD in their care, a review of inhaler…

  Learn all about the latest top issues and priorities that affect the pharmacy community! APhA’s Hot Topics in Pharmacy Education is a series of 1-hour, live webinars, presented every month as a member-exclusive benefit, that focus on pertinent public health issues to keep pharmacists…

New data published in JAMA Surgery show that mandating surgeons perform a PDMP query for every postoperative opioid prescription did not decrease the proportion of patients who were given a prescription or the mean number of tablets/capsules prescribed. “PDMP use has been shown by others to…

Purdue Pharma has asked counties suing the drug manufacturer for allegedly causing the opioid epidemic to offer specific details to back up their claims. The counties suing opioid makers say pointing to exact overdose deaths or excessive prescriptions is not necessary to prove their case that the…

As part of the ASCEND clinical trial, researchers compared cardiovascular outcomes over a mean 7.4 years in diabetic patients randomized to take or not take n-3 fatty acids. None of the 15,480 participants were known to have preexisting atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. The primary endpoint,…

Addressing the cardiovascular (CV) risks linked to diabetes while avoiding additional harms continues to be a balancing act, according to researchers involved in the ASCEND clinical study, who point to the dilemma with aspirin therapy. Working with a sample population of 15,480 adults with diabetes…

Two new opioid drug candidates went before an FDA committee last week, with one getting a nod from the panel and the other falling just shy of approval. The Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee declined to recommend oliceridine, an opioid injection for management of moderate to…

Women on Web, a group that has long provided medication to help women induce abortions at home in countries where abortion is outlawed is now shipping to the United States. The group operates an online service to ship misoprostol and mifepristone tablets to pregnant people worldwide. Taken together…