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Pharmacists for Healthier Lives Offers Perspective on Opioid Crisis
Pharmacists for Healthier Lives (PfHL) - a coalition of pharmacy and healthcare organizations raising awareness of how pharmacists help people live their healthiest lives – to...Full Article
American Pharmacists Association Announces 2020 APhA Fellows
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) today announced the selection of the APhA Fellows as part of the 2020 APhA Awards and Honors Program. Honorees will be officially r...Full Article
Keeping a stiff upper lip can hurt your health following death of a loved one
Keeping a stiff upper lip can hurt your health following death of a loved one Some people facing the loss of a loved one try to maintain their composure, but it's healthier t...Full Article
Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton Releases Children's Book to Help Parents Talk to Kids about Cancer
Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton Releases Children's Book to Help Parents Talk to Kids about Cancer A new children's book, Fritzy Finds a Hat, written by Olympic Gold Med...Full Article
Patient Power® Cancer Patient Survey Shows Majority of Patients Willing to Participate in Clinical Trials and Find Them Beneficial
Patient Power®, which delivers patient-powered journalism, information and opportunities to engage with and connect to the cancer community, reports that results from the firs...Full Article
Cracking The Code To Society’s Most Feared Disease
Even more than cancer, there’s one disease most people fear. The thought of falling prey to Alzheimer’s disease and to the inevitable desecration of the mind is something that...Full Article
Scaling the National Diabetes Prevention Program in Underserved Areas Through Pharmacies
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation announced it is building on the cooperative agreement entered into with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (...Full Article
Study shows protein inhibitor as potential treatment approach for common mutations found in non-Hodgkin lymphomas
A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrated a potential new approach to treating two of the most common subtypes of lymphoma through manipulation...Full Article
NeuroRx Drug for Suicidal Bipolar Depression Receives Notification of Patent Allowance
NeuroRx, Inc announced that it has received a notice of patent allowance covering the Composition of Matter for its drug NRX-101, which targets suicidal bipolar depression, an...Full Article
APhA Recognizes Pharmacists’ Contributions to Improving U.S. Immunization Rates and Health
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) today announced the selection of recipients of its 2020 Immunization Champion Awards recognizing individuals and organizations who ...Full Article
New possible strategy for treating chronic pain due to burns may help sufferers including veterans
New research shows how second-degree burns cause hard-to-treat chronic pain, and this understanding may be key to treating these complications, common in war veterans This re...Full Article
'Very active' flu season continues as a second wave could be coming
The 2019-20 flu season continues to be more active than normal, with Influenza B the leading type of virus among patients nationwide. But patient visits were down compared to ...Full Article
Addressing Gaps in Care, UArizona Health Sciences Offers Dual Pharmacy-Nursing Degree with Family Nurse Practitioner Add-on
Students at the University of Arizona Colleges of Nursing and Pharmacy soon will be offered the opportunity to simultaneously earn a Master of Science in Nursing, a Doctor of ...Full Article
Opioid Self-management Practices and Potential Safety Risks Among Patients with Cancer
Despite a national opioid crisis, prescribed opioid analgesics remain a viable option for pain management for patients with cancer. In effect, patients with cancer represent ...Full Article
Backed by Yale research, FDA approves new drug for advanced bladder cancer
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to the drug enfortumab vedotin (EV) to treat adult patients with advanced urothelial or bladder cancer. ...Full Article
Precigen Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for PRGN-3006 UltraCAR-T™ in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Precigen, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of innovative gene and cellular therapies to improve the lives of patients, announced that the US F...Full Article
Stäubli and ARxIUM Pharmaceutical Automation Collaboration
ARxIUM is a leading developer of pharmacy automation, inventory, workflow and consulting solutions. A global company with installations in North America, Asia, the Middle East...Full Article
Happy Holidays and have a great New Year!
Thank you so much for being a part of the NEWS-Line family this year. Our best to you and your friends, family and work crew from all of us! Have a terrific holiday season, st...Full Article
Researchers Say 30% of Patients Taking Opioids Experience Adverse Drug Interactions
Patients who do not disclose use of other medications are at higher risk of adverse drug interactions and addiction, according to new research in The Journal of the American O...Full Article
FDA underscores that consumers should not use drugs, dietary supplements and devices recalled from Basic Reset and Biogenyx following consent decree for federal violations
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting consumers of a recall of 25 drug, dietary supplement and medical device product lines distributed by Basic Reset and Biogenyx...Full Article
Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine to be Named in Honor of Late Chairman and CEO Bernard J. Tyson
The Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine will be named in honor of late Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard J. Tyson, reflecting Tyson's commitment to the future of hea...Full Article
Building A Better Flu Shot
Each year millions of Americans become sick with the flu, hundreds of thousands are hospitalized and tens of thousands die. Getting the flu shot can reduce the chances of infe...Full Article
Cannabis Reduces Headache And Migraine Pain By Nearly Half
Inhaled cannabis reduces self-reported headache severity by 47.3% and migraine severity by 49.6%, according to a recent study led by Carrie Cuttler, a Washington State Univers...Full Article
Potent Antimicrobial Found That Shows Promise In Fighting Staph Infections
Research led by scientists from McMaster University has yielded a potent antimicrobial that works against the toughest infectious disease strains. The find could be the beginn...Full Article
New Flu Drug Drives Drug Resistance In Influenza Viruses
On January 31, 2019, an 11-year old boy in Japan went to a medical clinic with a fever. The providers there diagnosed him with influenza, a strain called H3N2, and sent him ho...Full Article
