Chain executive covers ABCs and Part D of Medicare
If you think the Medicare discount cards were confusing when they took effect last year, wait till the Part D drug benefit starts up in 2006, warned Philip Burgess, R.Ph., national director of pharmacy affairs at Walgreen Co. It might be a good idea for community pharmacists to take cover on Jan. 1, 2006, or better still, go on leave for the whole month of January, he quipped.
Pharmacists face burnout and financial strain as PBMs take big cuts, prompting urgent calls for reform to protect patient care and community pharmacies.
A 1.6-million-birth analysis finds that adoption of a 2016 trial's antibiotic protocol climbed sharply in US hospitals, with a drop in infection rates.
First approved for adults in 2022, the therapy is now cleared for adults and pediatric patients weighing 66 lbs or more with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
With the inherent value medications provide in the greater health care system, Jennifer Hammons, PharmD, DrPH, argues that rural pharmacies deserve the proper recognition.