Food Is Medicine: Pharmacists Can Advance Policies for Healthier Communities
It's an exciting time for policies being made around food as medicine.
Will pharmacists soon be filling prescriptions for fruits and vegetables? As policy developments around the food as medicine movement continue, Drug Topics sat down with Holly Freishtat, Senior Director of Feeding Change at the Milken Institute to discuss her thoughts around food as medicine and how pharmacists can implement food-based solutions using their clinical expertise.
Frieshtat was a panelist on the NACDS Institute session titled “Pharmacies Feeding Innovation: Creative Community Solutions to Advance Food is Medicine” during the 2023 NACDS Total Store Expo, held August 12 to 14 in San Diego, California.
ICER Finds Insurers Struggled to Provide Fair Access to Obesity Drugs
February 17th 2025The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review assessed the formularies of 11 payers, covering 57 million people, to determine access to drugs that the organization had reviewed for cost effectiveness in 2022.
