Drug Topics November 2022

Besides providing education and counseling, pharmacists play a key role in the administration of vaccines.

Cannabinoids lack the habit-forming mechanism of action found in methadone and buprenorphine, unlocking new potential for the drug.

In a recent study, researchers found that text message reminders led to increased influenza vaccination rates, along with many receiving the vaccine sooner.

Patients can face risks like hypertension and difficult delivery.

Pharmacists can help educate patients as they try to analyze scientific information shared via the news or social media.

Independent pharmacists stand to gain—or lose—depending on what happens at the polls in November 2022.

Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency is a rare, progressive genetic disease associated with significant morbidity and mortality.

It’s too late for retail chain pharmacies to engage in the preventive maintenance that would have spared them the worst of the Great Resignation.