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How Specialty Pharmacies Cater to the Blind and Those With Impaired Vision

NY Times

The pandemic has exposed flaws in services for people who can’t easily access a drive-through window for Covid shots or testing or can’t read prescription labels.

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Why 340B Hospitals Should Now Build Their Own Specialty Pharmacies

Proxsys Rx

340B ESP and drug manufacturer restrictions are only part of the reason As we noted in a previous post , for 340B-eligible hospitals dealing with increasingly squeezed bottom lines, an in-house specialty pharmacy offers enormous savings and revenue potential. Hospitals can operate specialty pharmacies alongside their retail pharmacies.

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PBM Industry Update: Trends, Challenges, and What's Ahead (NEW Live Video Webinar)

Drug Channels

Emerging controversies, challenges, and threats to watch in the industry And much more!

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Leveraging Partnerships With Drug Manufacturers To Overcome 340B Restrictions On Specialty Drugs

Proxsys Rx

Nowhere have those restrictions been more punitive — and, often, unwarranted — than with specialty pharmacy medications; drugs which typically represent the most expensive (and profitable) in manufacturers’ product lines. Every specialty pharmacy patient you serve should be monitored by a clinic pharmacist.

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Leveraging Partnerships With Drug Manufacturers To Overcome 340B Restrictions On Specialty Drugs

Proxsys Rx

Nowhere have those restrictions been more punitive — and, often, unwarranted — than with specialty pharmacy medications; drugs which typically represent the most expensive (and profitable) in manufacturers’ product lines. Every specialty pharmacy patient you serve should be monitored by a clinic pharmacist.

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Relief for Amylyx as FDA clears controversial ALS drug Relyvrio

pharmaphorum

An open-label extension revealed that ALS patients had around six more months before being hospitalised, requiring a ventilator or dying compared to the control group and, according to Amylyx, patients who continued taking the drug survived about 10 months longer. .

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ISMP Safety Brief: Prevent Additional Patient Harm and Deaths From Accidental Daily Methotrexate Dosing

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

The labeled indications for methotrexate later expanded to include the treatment of non-oncologic conditions, including psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis. The community pharmacy dispensed a three-month quantity of medication but provided instructions on the label to take 15 mg (six 2.5 mg tablets) once daily.