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JULY 25, 2025

Decline in receipt of vaccines by Medicare beneficiaries during the COVID-19 pandemic—United States, 2020. Last Updated October 4, 2024. Accessed July 23, 2025. Hong K, Zhou F, Tsai Y, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2021;70:245-249. doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm7007a4. Kar A, Carrel AL, Miller JH, Le HTK.

Vaccines

Pharmacy Times

JULY 25, 2025

Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and American College of Rheumatology (ACR): 2020 Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Lyme Disease. Lantos PM, Rumbaugh J, Bockenstedt LK, et al. Arthritis Care Res ( Hoboken ). 2021;73(1):1-9.

HIV Treatment and Prevention Agents

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AUGUST 2, 2025

Recommendations for management of diabetes during Ramadan: update 2020, applying the principles of the ADA/EASD consensus. doi:10.1136/bmjdrc-2020-001248 5. Ibrahim M, Davies MJ, Ahmad E, et al. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2020;8(1):e001248. Chen M, Zhong VW.

Diabetes

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JULY 31, 2025

Published Online May 19, 2020. Newsletter Stay informed on drug updates, treatment guidelines, and pharmacy practice trends—subscribe to Pharmacy Times for weekly clinical insights. Ganaie F, Saad JS, McGee L, et al. Accessed July 31, 2025. doi:11:10.1128/mbio.00937-20.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 9, 2025

trillion economic impact in 2020. trillion economic impact in 2020. trillion (about $4600 per capita in the US) in 2020. trillion in 2020. LIMITX technology, developed by Abuse Deterrent Pharma and Acura Pharmaceuticals, controls drug release to reduce overdose risk. It just might start saving lives. REFERENCES 1.

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Pharmacy Times

AUGUST 5, 2025

but below 2020 high. link] Flu vaccination coverage, United States, 2023-24 influenza season. September 20, 2024. Accessed June 10, 2025. link] FluVaxView. Accessed June 10, 2025. link] Brenan M. Nurses retain top ethics rating in U.S., January 10, 2023. Accessed June 10, 2025.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 22, 2025

While the European Medicines Agency mandated pre-treatment DPD testing in Europe as early as 2020, and the UK’s National Health Service followed suit the same year, the US only reached a consensus in 2025. 1991;68(3):499-501. doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19910801)68:3 3.0.co;2-f European Medicines Agency. Accessed July 21, 2025. link] NHS England.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 16, 2025

The first one was introduced on September 13, 2020, near the end of Trump’s first term, but was shut down by a federal judge due to the administration’s failure to comply with the proper implementation processes. September 13, 2020. Trump to pitch sweeping Medicare drug price plan. May 7, 2025. Accessed May 13, 2025.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 2, 2025

Pharmacists are essential in managing access, patient education, and monitoring outcomes, ensuring adherence and addressing administrative challenges. On February 21, 2020, the FDA approved eptinezumab-jjmr (Vyepti; Lundbeck) as the first intravenous migraine preventative treatment for adults.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 24, 2025

The investigators conducted a retrospective study and gathered patient information from the hospital information system of Shenzhen Luohu People’s Hospital from May 1, 2020, to December 31, 2023. The primary study end point was the Humira retention rate at week 52, which was estimated through survival analysis. 0.92) and 0.44 (95% CI 0.34–0.52),

Biosimilars

Pharmacy Times

JULY 28, 2025

At the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists 2025 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, Kayla Johnson, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP, presented on the management of TD with VMAT2 inhibitors in greater detail.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 25, 2025

Updated January 22, 2020. link] Newsletter Stay informed on drug updates, treatment guidelines, and pharmacy practice trends—subscribe to Pharmacy Times for weekly clinical insights. months versus 7.79 months with tislelizumab. Accessed June 25, 2025.

Chemotherapy

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JULY 15, 2025

Carey: We know that medication management is a troubling problem, and that's really in part because patients can experience a barrier during any point of their medication journey. Common barriers that I think of include access and cost, but also treatment complexity and forgetfulness.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 8, 2025

1 Interestingly, there were similar rates of biosimilar initiation by age group every year except for 2020 ( p =.03), 03), which the authors deduced was likely because of the small number of patients initiating anti-TNFs in the under 6 years age group (n = 17) in 2020. 1 About 17.3%

Biosimilars

Pharmacy Times

AUGUST 5, 2025

Contrastingly, during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, the hospitalization rate was significantly lower, at 2.3% Additionally, in all years excluding 2020, a significantly higher proportion of patients were not treated with antibiotics prior to their hospital admission. and 5.6%, respectively.

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Pharmacy Times

JULY 18, 2025

Updated May 6, 2020. link] Compounded Drug Products That Are Essentially Copies of a Commercially Available Drug Product Under Section 503A of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Guidance for Industry, January 2018. Accessed June 9, 2025. link] FDA Drug Shortages. Updated December 19, 2024. Accessed June 9, 2025.

Compounding

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JULY 1, 2025

Using data from the National Cancer Database, they performed a retrospective analysis on patients diagnosed with metastatic HR–/HER2+ breast cancer between January 2013 and December 2020. 031), and diagnosis between 2016 and 2018 (OR 1.93, P < 001) as well as 2019 and 2020 (1.88, P < 001). 3 Among the patients, approximately 75.8%

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Pharmacy Times

AUGUST 6, 2025

Cardiovascular Health, 2010 to 2020: A Systematic Review of a Decade of Research on Life's Simple 7. Cardiovascular Health Promotion in Children: Challenges and Opportunities for 2020 and Beyond: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 2 REFERENCES 1. Aguayo L, Cotoc C. doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.124.038566

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 30, 2025

Supreme Court’s decision not to review a pharmacy benefit manager reform case out of Oklahoma: “After the historic Rutledge v. Douglas Hoey on the U.S.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 18, 2025

PTCy recipients included those who received peripheral blood stem cells of haploidentical-related and mismatched unrelated donor transplants.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 11, 2025

13510 Nutrition Counseling Coverage Act of 2021, HR 6971, 116th Cong (2019-2020). link] Newsletter Stay informed on drug updates, treatment guidelines, and pharmacy practice trends—subscribe to Pharmacy Times for weekly clinical insights. Clinical interventions for food-drug interactions: a pharmacist’s perspective.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 27, 2025

August 5, 2020. Study of single agent belantamab mafodotin versus pomalidomide plus low-dose dexamethasone (Pom/​Dex) in participants with relapsed/​refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM) (DREAMM-3). Updated June 10, 2025. Accessed June 27, 2025. FDA granted accelerated approval to belantamab mafodotin-blmf for multiple myeloma.

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