Pharmacy Practice News
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Pharmacy Practice News (PPN), strives to provide health-system pharmacists with accurate, relevant and up-to-date information that improves their clinical practice. In addition to news, the web site includes many of the magazine's regular features, including Continuing Education lessons, new FDA drug approvals, and our renowned educational reviews.
Pharmacy Practice News
3y ago
Most pharmacists know that every injectable drug includes excess volume, or “overfill.” Manufacturers often do this to allow for waste or spillage ..read more
Pharmacy Practice News
3y ago
Ohio scientists discovered new variant strains of SARS-CoV-2 that likely arose in a virus strain already present in the United States. ..read more
Pharmacy Practice News
3y ago
This Special Report describes the gut microbiome, the burden of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) and recurrent CDI, and outlines the current approach to managing infections, including emerging use of microbiome-based therapeutics ..read more
Pharmacy Practice News
3y ago
Diabetic patients with insufficient glycemic control are more likely to experience poor outcomes, including death, if infected with COVID-19 ..read more
Pharmacy Practice News
3y ago
As we move into the new outpatient/ambulatory payment year still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, navigating payment rules across sites of care and ensuring that pharmacy is in sync with their organization’s overall strategies are essential ..read more
Pharmacy Practice News
4y ago
This Special Report describes the gut microbiome, the burden of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) and recurrent CDI, and outlines the current approach to managing infections, including emerging use of microbiome-based therapeutics ..read more
Pharmacy Practice News
4y ago
The first U.S. case of COVID-19 was reported on Jan. 19, 2020. However, the novel coronavirus may have arrived and begun spreading domestically as early as late Decembe 2019 ..read more
Pharmacy Practice News
4y ago
As expected, pharmacists have been on the front lines of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout, administering the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines to thousands of health care workers and other at-risk people nationwide. But it hasn’t been easy ..read more
Pharmacy Practice News
4y ago
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems have scrambled to meet the soaring demand for critical medications as hospitalizations and deaths surged in hotspots around the country ..read more
Pharmacy Practice News
4y ago
Monitoring FDA approvals, forecasting potential price spikes, keeping ahead of drug shortages and having good team communication are activities that hospital pharmacists can do to manage high-cost medications in their formularies, according to formulary and supply-chain experts ..read more