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No Adverse Effects When Flu, COVID-19 Vaccines Coadministered
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Pharmacists can now reassure vaccine recipients that getting two shots at once will not make them feel lousier than getting one and returning for another. That is according to a new clinical finding that simultaneous receipt of mRNA COVID-19 and influenza vaccines produced no additional symptoms such as fever, chills, and myalgia. Read more.
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Pharmacy Closures Adversely Affected Anticonvulsant Prescription Fills
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Community pharmacy closures have an especially adverse effect on patients taking medications such as anticonvulsants, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Find out how closures in Colorado from 2009 to 2015 affected medication fills for those patients and what the authors advise pharmacists to do to help avoid those issues.
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Empagliflozin Benefits for CKD Continue After Discontinuation
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Empagliflozin was found to have positive cardiorenal effects in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) who were at risk for disease progression. A posttrial follow-up of findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that those effects lasted longer than expected—up to 12 months after discontinuation. Read more.
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Medications Can Cause Falls, Adverse Outcomes in COPD Patients
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the sixth most common cause of death in the United States, but the link between medications and a greater risk of morbidity and mortality in those patients is not well-known, according to a new report. Find out which drugs most increase the danger of injurious falls and how polypharmacy increases the risk.
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