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By Dr. Abimbola Farinde
 In recent months, the healthcare industry has seen more and more issues related to escalating drug prices and problems related to people's access to life-sustaining medications. The prices of prescription drugs continue to increase in contrast to other healthcare costs. In an election year, there has been increased attention placed on what the government can do to better manage these issues. The price escalations have garnered the attention of legislators and presidential candidates.
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Earn your FAzPA, AzPA Fellow. Fellowship demonstrates excellence in pharmacy. Candidates must be a current pharmacist member of AzPA, they have to have been a member for 8 years and have contributed by serving on Board of Directors or volunteering on committees and publishing in journal or giving presentations. Deadline has been extended to March 31, 2016. Learn more and download an application here.
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Take a virtual lunch break with AzPA on Wednesday, April 27 to earn live continuing education. Learn more about prescription monitoring from Sophia Galloway, PharmD; and Detective Keith Yingling. This activity is eligible for 1.0 contact hour (0.1 CEU) of continuing pharmacy education. Registration is not yet available, but you may RSVP here.
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AzPA
AzPA is excited to host the 2nd Annual Southwestern States Residency Conference Friday, June 10, at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa in Chandler. This conference provides a platform for pharmacy residents to present their research projects. Also a networking forum, program directors and preceptors are encouraged to attend. This conference is specifically tailored to Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado pharmacy residents, but any interested programs are welcome and encouraged to apply. $125 to participate.
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CDC
As part of the U.S. government's urgent response to the epidemic of overdose deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is issuing new recommendations for prescribing opioid medications for chronic pain, excluding cancer, palliative and end-of-life care. These guidleines will help primary care providers ensure the safest and most effective treatment for their patients.
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KCNC-TV
According to the Mayo Clinic, 70 percent of all Americans take at least one prescription. For most people, that means remembering to take a lot of pills. Now some patients are forgoing pills altogether and having medications implanted into their arms instead.
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APhA
As frontline health care providers, pharmacists need to know about Zika virus disease, for which information is constantly changing. That was the message from speakers at an education session, Zika Outbreak: What Pharmacists Need to Know, at APhA2016 in Baltimore.
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The JAMA Network
Among patients with agitated delirium receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit, the addition of dexmedetomidine to standard care compared with standard care alone resulted in more ventilator-free hours at seven days. The findings support the use of dexmedetomidine in patients such as these.
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Medical News Today
Spironolactone, commonly used in cases of heart failure, has surprised scientists by blocking infection by Epstein-Barr virus, in a breakthrough that could help people with a wide variety of herpes-related conditions.
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Pharmacy Times
Patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder are at very high risk for medication nonadherence.
Finding ways to increase adherence among bipolar patients could reduce morbidity and mortality, but researchers have not been able to definitively determine which interventions work best in this population.
A meta-analysis examined adherence in bipolar patients with authors reporting that any intervention, especially one that is brief, can improve patients' adherence.
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Medical Daily
Humans have prescribed medications since Sumerian times, around 2,000 BC. After this, records of prescribing and dispensing medication have been found from ancient Greece, the Han Dynasty and the Islamic Golden Age in Iraq. Since then, pharmaceuticals have exploded into a multibillion dollar, international industry. There are about 291,000 pharmacists employed in the United States alone, and in 2014, pharmacies filled about 44.6 million prescriptions per capita. But how does the pharmaceutical industry make its money?
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AJMC
The burden of visiting pharmacies to fill medications is a central contributor to nonadherence to maintenance medications. Recently, pharmacies have begun offering services that align prescription fill dates to allow patients to pick up all medications on a single visit.
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Arizona Daily Star
Walgreens has partnered with UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx pharmacy business to allow members to fill their 90-day prescriptions at their nearest Walgreens pharmacy, instead of waiting for them in the mail.
Typically, it's more expensive for patients to pick up their prescriptions directly from a commercial pharmacy as opposed to using their drug provider's prescription home-delivery service.
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Pharmacy Times
Greater than 10 percent of referrals to respiratory specialists are for chronic cough, given the condition's persistent, refractory nature.
Chronic cough adversely affects patients' quality of life and is often described as nagging or hacking in nature. Asthma, gastroesophageal reflux disease and rhinitis are common noninfectious triggers of chronic cough, yet clinicians can find no known etiology in 20 percent of cases.
However, researchers know a few things about chronic cough. For instance, patients with chronic cough usually have elevated neutrophil counts.
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