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Insights From ASCO 2025 Guide Pharmacy Practice in Solid Tumors and Hematologic Cancers

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The updated definition for HRMM is increasingly important as there is an increased focus on how to improve outcomes for patients with HRMM, functional HRMM, and true extramedullary disease. International Myeloma Society/International Myeloma Working Group consensus recommendations on the definition of high-risk multiple myeloma.

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Pharmacists Reimagine Myeloma Care With Insights from ASCO

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I can't use elranatamab in frontline today, but based on what we’ve seen, I’m definitely excited to see more data emerge. Pharmacy Times : Can you share your experience at OPC 2025 and the significance of these meetings for pharmacists? We're not going to have payer support to use these drugs frontline right now.

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Pharmacists Can Provide Travel Health Tips for Patients

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Measles outbreak case definition. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2023;51:102494. doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102494 2022.102494 2. How to prevent norovirus. January 13, 2025. Accessed April 28, 2025. Travelers’ health. Accessed April 28, 2025. Texas Department of State Health Services. Updated April 10, 2025. Accessed April 28, 2025.

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Atrium Health: Pioneering Outpatient Transplant Models Driven by Pharmacist-Led Care

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And that's a challenge, because in some ways, when they come in the hospital—don’t quote me on this—but they kind of can get dropped off and let the nurses and the team take care of them, and then pick them up when they're done. There was some of that kind of selling them on the idea.

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Does Corticosteroid Use Have a Role in Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia?

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These trials varied in their definitions of severe CAP, corticosteroids used, primary outcomes, and results. Investigators included patients with severe CAP based on the ATS/IDSA definition ( Table 2 ) and excluded those with previous use of steroids and vasopressor-dependent shock.

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Reinventing Transplant Care: From Inpatient Tradition to Outpatient Innovation

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In most hospitals, you have what's called “meds to beds,” where the outpatient pharmacy will fill the discharge prescriptions and bring them to the floor. That is something we have definitely taken from transplant and shared with our other bispecific programs—especially now that we do bispecifics in solid tumors.

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Pharmacists Take the Lead on Advanced Therapeutics

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At Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), eligible patients can access 12 advanced therapeutics and 8 more in the pipeline. I’m coming at it from the perspective of understanding the science behind it… When you talk about manipulating genes, that definitely tends to put some people off,” she said. “I