Lauren Biscaldi, MS, Managing Editor

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Four winners of the SingleCare Best of the Best Pharmacy Awards joined Drug Topics® to share their knowledge with fellow pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

COVID-19 updates and news to know as of December 16, 2021.

Nguyen joined Drug Topics® to discuss his most memorable customers and share why he always goes above and beyond.

Alam joined Drug Topics® to discuss her time as a student pharmacist.

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Bourgeois joined Drug Topics® to discuss her career, her journey, and her nonprofit.

A number of studies evaluated how COVID-19 infection and vaccination impact patients living with blood cancers and other blood disorders.

Each autumn, Drug Topics® surveys its readers from across the country to take the pulse of the pharmacy profession before heading into the new year. This year, 1123 respondents were more eager than perhaps ever before to share their feelings on important workplace issues.

Highlights included updates on COVID-19 vaccine tolerance in individuals with rheumatic diseases, the latest data on medical cannabis use in fibromyalgia, and more.

Individuals aged 16 or 17 years may now receive a single booster dose at least 6 months after completion of their primary vaccination series.

Questions continue to swirl around eligibility for these shots.

Prescription fills decreased most significantly in a subgroup of adults.

Patients in California were able to receive a contraceptive prescription during a visit with a pharmacist.

Mean days of therapy per 1000 patient-days were reduced across medication categories.

COVID-19 updates and news to know as of December 6, 2021.

The Omicron variant was first identified in South Africa on November 24, 2021.

The EUA amendment was granted for both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

The EUA submission includes data from the company’s interim analysis of the Phase 2/3 EPIC-HR clinical trial.

The company plans to submit these results to the FDA and EMA for review.

Non-White patients were more likely to express beliefs that medications are both harmful and overused, leading to a decrease in medication adherence.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis should be encouraged to receive their yearly flu vaccine.

Pharmacists in 2 states are now empowered to administer FDA approved, CDC recommended vaccines.

Pharmacists are a key part of the multidisciplinary approach that health care providers should take when tapering patients off opioid therapy.

Fewer patients today are likely to express an unwillingness to change their RA medications compared with patients 15 years ago, survey results showed.

The vaccine’s safety, tolerability, and efficacy was discussed across multiple abstracts presented at ACR Convergence 2021.

Following a booster shot, immunoglobulin G titers increased significantly in a study population aged 60 years and older.