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Understanding Biologics and Biosimilars Amid an Evolving Treatment Landscape

Pharmacy Times

billion worth in savings in 2023 and $36 billion since the first biosimilar entered the market in 2015. Presented at: American Association of Pharmacy Technicians 2025 Annual Pharmacy Technician Convention. Further, Darkow emphasized the significant cost savings with biosimilars. REFERENCE Darkow A. Denver, CO.

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Correct Patient Misconceptions Around Biosimilars

Pharmacy Times

April 2015. US Department of Health and Human Services; FDA; Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Scientific Considerations in Demonstrating Biosimilarity to a Reference Product: Guidance for Industry. Accessed May 13, 2025. McClellan JE, Conlon HD, Bolt MW, et al.

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Is Pharmacy School Worth It?

The Pharmacist Blog

First lets compare how long it would take before a pharmacist breaks even in net worth compared to a pharmacy technician. Pharmacy Technician Scenario : Graduates high school at the age of 18 and starts working at a retail pharmacy full time as a pharmacy assistant. Inflation is not accounted.

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Are PharmD Graduates ‘Practice Ready’ for Primary Care?

Pulses

As pharmacy practice settings change and more patient care services are offered in accessible locations, it is time for our profession to ensure our PharmD graduates are ‘practice ready’ for primary care roles. Pharmacy Practice. Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. link] Published February 22, 2015.

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Rise of Digital Pharmacy: How Emerging Technologies Are Changing the Practice 

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

The resulting strain has made well-being and burnout one of the most concerning issues in pharmacy and pharmacy regulation today, affecting an increasing number of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and interns. Virtual pharmacy education in interactive environments has been explored for well over a decade.

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2275 pharmacies have closed so far in 2024

Ramblings of a pharmacist

in JAMA in 2019 , for example, shows that an average of 1631 pharmacies closed each year as reported in NCPDP from 2010 to 2015, with and average of 2435 pharmacies opening each year for a net average figure of 804 openings every year in that period. is not reasonable or relevant, kids. is not reasonable or relevant, kids.

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Is Blasto Behind Your Hashimoto’s, Hives and IBS?

The Thyroid Pharmacist

Scientists in Bosnia first published this connection in 2015, though I’ve seen it clinically since 2013. (1). I loved my job as a pharmacy technician, learning about the body and medications, and couldn’t wait to start my studies to become a pharmacist! In 2015, 35 percent of my clients reported testing positive for Blasto.