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February 2009
Features
Commentary
Pushing an Expanded Role for Pharmacists: Medicare, SCHIP, and Health Insurance Debates Present Ample Opportunities
With a new administration in place, pharmacists may play a larger advisory role.
Stephen Barlas
Better Asthma Management with Advanced Technology: Creation of an Asthma Utilization Rx Analyzer (AURA) Tool
The AURA tool enables health plans to evaluate quality and use of resources for their members with asthma by analyzing medical and pharmacy claims.
James H. Jackson, PharmD, MPH; Benjamin Gutierrez, PhD; Orsolya E. Lunacsek, PhD, MBA; and Sulabha Ramachandran, PhD
Pharmaceutical Approval Update
Products include fospropofol for sedation; plerixafor to prepare patients for transplantation; and fenofibric acid for improving triglycerides and cholesterol.
Marvin M. Goldenberg, PhD, RPh, MS
Meeting Highlights
58th Annual Meeting, American Society of Human Genetics, 2008
The authors report on a project to sequence the genomes of more than 1,000 people; Gaucher’s disease; warfarin genetics; and Huntington’s disease.
Safiya Abouzaid, PharmD; Joseph E. Couto, PharmD, MBA; and Marc B. Royo
Meeting Highlights
American Society of Hematology, 50th Annual Meeting and Exposition
Topics include leukemias, myelodysplastic disorder, multiple myeloma, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.
Walter Alexander
Meeting Highlights
2008 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Summaries discuss zoledronic acid, everolimus, lapatinib, and letrozole.
Walter Alexander
Book Review
Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, 3rd Edition
Third edition of a classic psychopharmacology text
Reviewed by David A. Casey, MD
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National Priorities and Goals
David B. Nash, MD, MBA, describes the goals of the National Quality Forum in improving health care in six key areas as well as eliminating unnecessary services.
David B. Nash, MD, MBA
Medication Errors
End the “Ice Age” Is Glacial Acetic Acid Really Needed?
Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FASCP, explains how patients can be harmed when glacial (pure) acetic acid, instead of a diluted form, is dispensed.
Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FASCP
Prescription: Washington
Pharmacy Distribution of Consumer Drug Information Emerges as a Problem
Stephen Barlas discusses the long-simmering debate over the content of consumer medication information.
Stephen Barlas
New Drugs/Drug News/New Medical Devices
From Mozobil to Zolpimist, P&T presents the latest studies and information about FDA approvals, new indications, recalls, and industry updates.
Drug Forecast
Bendamustine (Treanda) for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Hoyee Leong, PhD, and Mary Ellen Bonk, PharmD, review bendamustine (Treanda), a therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Hoyee Leong, PhD, and Mary Ellen Bonk, PharmD
