THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Urinary tract infections are common and usually simple to treat. But for people who become sick enough to land in the hospital with one, an experimental antibiotic may soon offer a new treatment option -- taken by mouth instead of delivered by IV.
In a clinical trial, researchers found that the pill, called tebipenem HBr, worked as well as a standard IV antibiotic in...
Pushed to the breaking point, pharmacy technicians are quitting in waves and stores are struggling to hire, leading to shorter hours, delayed prescriptions and risky mistakes.
Heidi Strehl worked as a pharmacy technician at a Rite Aid in the Pittsburgh suburbs for more than 16 years. She loved her customers, enjoyed her job and thought of her co-workers as family. But this fall, Strehl abruptly quit, walking out in the middle of a shift...
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra unveiled the Biden administration’s road map to lowering the cost of prescription drugs.
The plan, summarized in a 29-page document, supports legislation that allows the federal government to negotiate lower prices on the costliest drugs each year.
Lowering the cost of drugs has been a goal by Democrats and some Republicans for years.
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WHO official Maria Van Kerkhove said Tuesday that misinformation about Covid and vaccines appears to have gotten worse and is keeping people from getting the shots, driving an increase in cases.
In July, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared Covid misinformation a “serious public threat.”
Most unvaccinated Americans think the Covid vaccines are more of a threat to their health than...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued nationwide guidance allowing qualified pharmacy technicians and state-authorized pharmacy interns to administer childhood vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines, and COVID-19 tests. The new policy represents an important step forward as the country anxiously awaits a coronavirus vaccine.
The guidance comes at a time when routine childhood inoculation rates are...
Since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Amy Kallo, a PharmD student at Midwestern University, worked as a pharmacy intern at a CVS in Chicago. According to Kallo, working at a pharmacy during the pandemic helped to solidify her understanding of the role of pharmacists as educators in their communities. “We are definitely the front line to educate patients,” Kallo said. Kallo explained that when she...