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PCORI to Invest $17 Million to Answer Long-Standing Questions About Disparities in Asthma Burden and Care

Recognizing the persistent disparities in controlling asthma among African-American and Hispanic/Latino populations in the United States, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Researc... Full Article

ASHP Publishes Analysis of Infections Related to Compounding Pharmacies
In the wake of the deadly infections in 2012 from drugs compounded at the New England Compounding Center (NECC), a new study examines similar outbreaks in the US over the last... Full Article

Rotavirus Vaccine Given to Newborns in Africa is Effective
Mayo Clinic and other researchers have shown that a vaccine given to newborns is at least 60% effective against rotavirus in Ghana. Rotavirus causes fever, vomiting and diarrh... Full Article

Alliance Life Sciences Expands Offering, Appoints Vice President of Health Policy and Strategy
Alliance Life Sciences Consulting Group (ALSCG), an innovative management and technology consultancy, has announced the appointment of Joel Owerbach, PharmD, as vice president... Full Article

Teens Have Unsupervised Access to Prescription Drugs
A new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that 83.4% of teens had unsupervised access to their prescription medications at home including 73.7% taking pain relief,... Full Article

Re-Analysis of Diabetes Drug Finds No Higher Heart Attack Risk
A re-analysis of the data from a pivotal study of rosiglitazone found no increased risk of cardiovascular events associated with the controversial diabetes drug, according to ... Full Article

Leading the Way in Completely Managing Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
From a clinical-based perspective, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) can be characterized as an unmet global phenomenon in which anesthesia practitioners and PACU nurse... Full Article

Sickle Cell Anemia Therapy Advances to Phase II Clinical Trials
Seeking to improve the lives of sickle cell anemia sufferers around the world, researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, the Dana-Farber/Children's H... Full Article

Pilot Program to Decrease Emergency Room Wait Times
Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has been a major issue nationally for 20 years and continues to increase in severity. To address this issue, a pilot study has been laun... Full Article

The Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition Releases Nutrition Care Model to Improve Patient Outcomes
The Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition (the Alliance), an interdisciplinary partnership of five prestigious organizations formed to improve patient outcomes through nutriti... Full Article

Re-Analysis of Diabetes Drug Finds No Higher Heart Attack Risk
A re-analysis of the data from a pivotal study of rosiglitazone found no increased risk of cardiovascular events associated with the controversial diabetes drug, according to ... Full Article

Healthcare and Hospital Workers are More Stressed than Other Industries
ComPsych® Corporation announced the release of a major report that analyzes industry, gender and age differences in millions of EAP/work-life calls over a 12-month period. Fi... Full Article

Cancer Drug Shortages Hit 83% of US Oncologists
Eighty-three percent of cancer doctors report that they’ve faced oncology drug shortages, and of those, nearly all say that their patients’ treatment has been impacted, accord... Full Article

Combination of Drugs Produces Dramatic Tumor Responses in Advanced Melanoma Patients
The combination of the immunotherapy drug ipilimumab and the investigational antibody drug nivolumab led to long-lasting tumor shrinkage in more than half of patients with met... Full Article

Roswell Park, Jasco Pharmaceuticals Join Forces to Advance Drug Research
A new partnership, first of its kind for both organizations, will see Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and Jasco Pharmaceuticals, LLC collaborating to advance development ... Full Article

How Parents and Peers Can Help Curb the Increasing Problem of Prescription Drug Abuse Among Youth
Young people are increasingly turning to prescription drugs to get high. Research out of the University of Cincinnati sheds new light on what could increase or lower that risk... Full Article

Artificial Sweeteners May Be Do More Than Sweeten
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a popular artificial sweetener can modify how the body handles sugar. In a small study, t... Full Article

Disabled Patients Who Can’t Afford Their Meds Come to the ER More
Disabled Medicare patients under the age of 65 who don’t take their prescription medications because of cost concerns are more likely to have at least one emergency department... Full Article

FDA Recommends Running Phase 2b Trial in the Treatment of Severe Menstrual Bleeding Associated With Uterine Fibroids
Repros Therapeutics Inc. has announced it has met with the FDA regarding the clinical development of Proellex-V, the vaginally administered product, in the treatment of uterin... Full Article

Researchers Identify First Drug Targets in Childhood Genetic Tumor Disorder
Two mutations central to the development of infantile myofibromatosis (IM)—a disorder characterized by multiple tumors involving the skin, bone, and soft tissue—may provide ne... Full Article

RxAlly Releases White Paper on Necessity of Personalized Pharmacist Care
RxAlly, a first-of-its-kind alliance of more than 22,000 pharmacies nationwide, announces the publication of a white paper titled Personalized Pharmacist Care: Healing America... Full Article

Discovery of Origins of a Unique Form of Asthma May Lead to a Precision Medicine Approach to Treatment
Little is known about why asthma develops, how it constricts the airway or why response to treatments varies between patients. Now, a team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medi... Full Article

The Compound in the Mediterranean Diet that Makes Cancer Cells ‘Mortal’
New research suggests that a compound abundant in the Mediterranean diet takes away cancer cells’ “superpower” to escape death. By altering a very specific step in gene regul... Full Article

COPD Over-Diagnosed Among Uninsured Patients
More than 40% of patients being treated for COPD at a federally funded clinic did not have the disease, researchers found after evaluating the patients with spirometry, the di... Full Article

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