Pharmacists Perspective

• New HIV PrEP Guidelines This update gives healthcare providers the latest guidance on prescribing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) -- a powerful tool for HIV prevention -- to their patients.
  CDC Expert Commentary, May 11, 2022
• Medicare Is Right Not to Pay for Costly Alzheimer's Drug: Ethicist   Prof Art Caplan discusses Medicare's decision on paying for the use of the Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 11, 2022
• Episode 2: The Role of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Major Depressive Disorder   Madhukar Trivedi, MD, and Jonathan Downar, MD, review the evidence on the efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for major depressive disorder.
  Medscape, May 11, 2022
• Episode 1: Novel Treatments in MDD: Ketamine and Esketamine   Madhukar Trivedi, MD, and Manish Jha, MD, MBBS, review the evidence on the efficacy of esketamine and ketamine as a treatment for major depressive disorder.
  Medscape, May 11, 2022
• Why Iodized Salt Is Important for You and Your Thyroid Lack of iodine can lead to thyroid deficiency disorders. Dr Elizabeth Pearce discusses iodized salt, its importance, and how to increase iodine intake.
  Endocrine Society, May 10, 2022
• Are You Eligible for a New Therapy That Might Prevent COVID-19? Learn More On Evusheld   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, discusses the new FDA-authorized preventative drug for COVID-19 called Evusheld.
  WebMD, May 09, 2022
• Five New Neurology Studies: Possible Breakthroughs, Some Failures   Dr Christoph Diener on promising early results in muscular dystrophy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and discouraging ones for aducanumab.
  Medscape Neurology, May 09, 2022
• Hope, Hype, and the Problem With New Drug Development Desperation for neurologic disorders is leading us away from evidence-based practices.
  Medscape Neurology, May 06, 2022
• Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: Moving Toward a New Array of Therapeutics   "It is really refreshing and wonderful that our patients have so many more options than we had 20 years ago," says Sandra Quezada, MD, on advances in ulcerative colitis.
  Medscape, May 05, 2022
• Statins for Kids: When to Pull the Trigger   The Cribsiders hit the highlights of expert recommendations for screening, diagnosis, and management of dyslipidemia in pediatric patients.
  The Cribsiders, May 05, 2022
• Hands-on for HF: New Considerations for Cardiac Rehab   Drs Daniel Forman and Gordon Reeves discuss how the REHAB-HF trial results inform potential new directions in exercise training for both HFpEF and HFrEF patients that may be beneficial.
  American College of Cardiology & Medscape , May 05, 2022
• Therapies 'Not Used Enough' in Patients With T2D and CVD Risk   Dr Anne Peters discusses a paper demonstrating the low use of appropriate therapies in patients with type 2 diabetes and established cardiovascular risk.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, May 04, 2022
• You vs Us: Whom Did COVID Vaccines Protect?   Throwing a spanner into the hopes for high levels of population immunity.
  Medscape, May 04, 2022
• Aspirin in Primary Prevention of CVD: Rational Use   The aspirin question returns as the balance of benefits vs harms for some patient groups is reassessed.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, May 04, 2022
• Key Points From the New Heart Failure Guidelines   Dr Ileana Piña discusses the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA heart failure guidelines and how they compare with the European guidelines and recent data on heart failure.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 04, 2022
• Episode 4: Retention and Care for Patients With HIV   Drs Michael Saag and Michael Mugavero discuss the connection between antiretroviral therapy, retention, and care for patients with HIV.
  Medscape, May 04, 2022
• Key Studies in Migraine From AAN 2022   Dr Jessica Ailani reports key studies in migraine from AAN 2022, including a potential biomarker for migraine progression, analyses of the CaMEO study, and pregnancy outcomes in migraine patients.
  Medscape, May 03, 2022
• Paxlovid Is Here: A Pharmacist's Prescribing Pearls An effective oral medication for COVID-19 is now available. Michael Ganio, PharmD, offers tips on how to prescribe it safely, where to find it in your area, and how it works with the Test to Treat program.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 03, 2022
• Why I Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccination to All My Patients   New age-based hepatitis B vaccine recommendations and available vaccine products are reviewed by Dr Sandra Fryhofer.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 03, 2022
• Episode 2: Frontline Therapy for Multiple Myeloma   Joseph Mikhael, MD, and Peter Voorhees, MD, discuss frontline therapy for multiple myeloma and new options for both transplant-eligible and transplant-ineligible patients.
  Medscape, May 03, 2022