Pharmacists have sought ways to show payers that they are "more than pill counters" and to have a way to obtain credentials-and reimbursement-for the cognitive services they so often informally provide to patients. Now several states have developed a training and examination program that qualifies them as Certified Disease Managers (CDMs) in diabetes and other areas.
Targeted Drug Combination Reveals New Activity in Brain Tumors
December 28th 2021A combination of two targeted cancer drugs showed unprecedented, “clinically meaningful” activity in patients with highly malignant brain tumors that carried a rare genetic mutation, according to a clinical trial report by investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.