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AAN 2025: Pharmacists Key Players in Safe, Effective Migraine Treatment With CGRP Antagonists

Pharmacy Times

Andrew Charles, MD, outlines why calcitonin-gene-related peptide (CGRP) antagonists are increasingly favored as first-line migraine treatments and how pharmacists play a key role in patient education and support.

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Fierce Healthcare - Untitled Article

Fierce Healthcare

Blue Shield of California has earned a health equity accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance, recognizing its efforts in this space.

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AAN 2025: Specialty Pharmacists Improve Outcomes in Non-MS Clinics With High-Impact Interventions

Pharmacy Times

A study led by Kayla Johnson, PharmD, BCPS, BCPP found that integrating specialty pharmacists into non-multiple sclerosis (MS) neurology clinics led to significantly enhanced patient care and treatment outcomes.

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FDA’s Vape Ban Hits the Right Note: Supreme Court Says “Let It Be”

The FDA Law Blog

By Andrew J. Hull & David B. Clissold & Sophia R. Gaulkin & Esther Petrikovsky Last week, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in FDA v. Wages & White Lion Investments, LLC , No. 23-1038 (Apr. 2, 2025) that affirms FDAs denial of authorization to market flavored vape products. This opinion, which overrules a Fifth Circuit decision that FDA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in denying premarket tobacco product applications submitted by manufacturers of flavored e-li

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Deprescribing in Hospice – My Top 5 Targets

Med Ed 101

Deprescribing is an important part of care for hospice patients. The main goal of hospice care is to focus on comfort care rather than curative treatments, which means evaluating if a patients current medications are still indicated, effective, safe, and convenient. Some medications may no longer provide much benefit and could even cause harm or […] The post Deprescribing in Hospice – My Top 5 Targets appeared first on Med Ed 101.

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Hyman, Phelps & McNamara Enters its 45th Year Continuing to Expand its Capabilities to Meet Client Needs

The FDA Law Blog

Hyman, Phelps & McNamara (HPM) marks its 45thAnniversary year by welcoming three accomplished professionals who reinforce the depth and breadth of the firms FDA and DEA practices. Naomi Lowy joins HPM as a Principal Drug Regulatory Expert after 18 years at the FDAs Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), most recently as the Deputy Director, Division of General Endocrinology.

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China, America and pay inject drama into AstraZeneca’s AGM

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

The bosss bonus is an annual debating point at Britains biggest company. But thats not the only issue this year AstraZeneca is used to facing protests over pay at its annual general meetings, given the position of its chief executive, Pascal Soriot, as the best-paid FTSE 100 chief executive for most of the past five years. But pay is not the only issue overshadowing this years virtual gathering on Friday.

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U.S. may be reverting to a time when measles deaths were not very rare, experts warn

STAT

The United States recorded three measles deaths in the first 24 years of this century. In just over three months of 2025, it has equaled that number. The most recent patient, an 8-year-old unvaccinated and previously healthy girl in West Texas, died late last week. Infectious disease experts warn that the days when measles deaths in the United States were ultra rare may be over for now.

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Second child with measles dies in Texas as outbreak nears 570 cases

STAT

A second unvaccinated school-aged child in West Texas has died from a measles-related illness, a hospital spokesman confirmed Sunday, as the outbreak continues to swell. Aaron Davis, a spokesperson for UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, said that the child was “receiving treatment for complications of measles while hospitalized” and  and did not have underlying health conditions.

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