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Pushing competition and affordability with biosimilars

By: Michael Lim, PharmD Candidate c/o 2020 - In an era of widespread pharmaceutical innovation, the rise of biological products…

8 years ago

Ibalizumab-uiyk (Trogarzo®): a newly FDA approved medication to treat multidrug resistant HIV-1 infection

By: Karen Chen, PharmD Candidate c/o 2019 - Ibalizumab-uiyk (Trogarzo®) is specifically indicated for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus…

8 years ago

Digital sensors in drugs and how they will impact pharmacotherapy

By: Jonathan Mercado, PharmD Candidate c/o 2019 - In November of 2017, the FDA approved the first drug to contain…

8 years ago

Review of PROTAC – a drug that may alter the future of cancer therapy

By: Yeonah Suk, PharmD Candidate c/o 2020 - Despite the $107 billion a year cancer drug industry there is no…

8 years ago

2018 ACC/AHA new hypertension guidelines review

By: Gabrielle Flavoni, PharmD Candidate c/o 2018 - This past November, the ACC/AHA released a new definition for the word…

9 years ago

Pharmacotherapy in posttraumatic stress disorder and the link to increased dementia risk

By: Michelle Huang, PharmD Candidate c/o 2021 - In the midst of countless chronic diseases that we face today, one…

9 years ago

CDC and pharmacists fight antibiotic resistance

By: Katharine Russo, PharmD Candidate c/o 2021 - With the continued increase of antibiotic resistant diseases, scientists are calling this…

9 years ago

The opioid epidemic: a national crisis

By: Katharine Russo, PharmD Candidate c/o 2021 - The DEA announced in August 2017 that 2018 would bring strict manufacturing…

9 years ago

The role of evolocumab (Repatha ®) in the treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease

By: Katie Lee, PharmD Candidate c/o 2019 - In 2015, FDA approved evolocumab (Repatha ®), a human monoclonal antibody of…

9 years ago

FDA approves tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah ™): first gene therapy available in the United States

By: Anna Diyamandoglu, PharmD Candidate c/o 2020 - The specificity of individuals’ genetic makeup has been one of the primary…

9 years ago