
This schedule arrives at a time of unprecedented friction between leading medical societies and federal health agencies.
Ashley Gallagher is an assistant managing editor at Drug Topics®. She graduated in 2020 in journalism and mass communications and received her master’s degree in 2025 in digital journalism from St. Bonaventure University. Previously, she worked as a pharmacy technician for a retail chain.

This schedule arrives at a time of unprecedented friction between leading medical societies and federal health agencies.

Hydrogel-based platforms offer integrated strategies that simultaneously address infection, biofilm persistence, and impaired tissue regeneration.

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Lebrikizumab enables 8‑week maintenance dosing for severe eczema, reducing injections to 6 yearly while maintaining strong skin‑clearance results.

AI reshapes everyday tasks in the community pharmacy from refill automation to documentation.

Phase 3 data show a once-weekly HIV pill maintains viral suppression like daily therapy, hinting at simpler long-acting care.

The decision represents the first new sunscreen ingredient permitted in the United States since the late 1990s.

Once-weekly mazdutide drives approximately 17% weight loss in Chinese adults with obesity, offering a dual GLP-1/glucagon metabolic option.

Medicare’s $35 insulin cap cuts cost swings, boosts adherence for high-burden patients, and highlights pharmacists’ role in preventing rationing.

BA.3.2 variant spreads globally, testing vaccine matches as the FDA backs XFG immunizations.

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Alabama bans research-grade peptides for patients amid FDA reviewing 12 peptides for compounding use.

New 9-year data shows some high-risk prediabetes patients progress to type 2 diabetes despite 8% weight loss.

Federal court blocks abrupt childhood vaccine schedule changes, raising insurance and liability uncertainty as pharmacies navigate shifting guidance and growing parent hesitancy.

The executive order calls to realign core childhood vaccine recommendations with scientific evidence and best practices of peer, developed nations.

Bepirovirsen suggests that a finite 24-week treatment course can achieve a functional cure defined as sustained undetectable hepatitis B surface antigen.

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Pharmacists help women choose safer hormone replacement therapy or nonhormonal relief options.

The approval arrives prior to the Prescription Drug User Fee Act action date of June 16, 2026.

Older adults with type 2 diabetes often juggle 5 or more different prescriptions.

This regulatory milestone establishes inhaled insulin as the first and only noninjectable mealtime insulin option for children and adolescents.

Pharmacies can build clinical workflows, bill like providers, and get paid for MTM and test-and-treat services patients value.

FDA updates Tremfya label in psoriatic arthritis, confirming it slows structural joint damage and helping patients protect mobility while easing symptoms.

New FDA label lets linaclotide treat functional constipation in children 2 to 5, with dosing tips, mixing options, and key safety warnings.

Utah protocol streamlines large-volume immunoglobulin for measles-exposed infants as outbreaks surge.

American College of Cardiology's new postpartum cardiovascular disease pathway urges early follow-up and tighter blood pressure goals.

The FDA clears Hepcludex, the first chronic hepatitis D therapy, offering new hope with strong viral suppression data and key safety monitoring needs.

An open line of communication between care teams is key to improving patient outcomes.

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