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florida80 · 05-16-2019

Making changes to help you have a better Today

Kristin Weitzel

, PharmD, FAPhA (Editor-in-Chief, Pharmacy Today)

Over the years of my involvement with magazines and journals, I’ve often wondered whether publishers eavesdropped when pharmacists learned to “start low and go slow” with doses. In the same way, when we tweak Pharmacy Today, we do it incrementally, which I think is actually publisher code for “really, really slowly.” Lately, though, we’ve been making some great changes in Today to ensure we continue to have articles that are relevant, helpful, and meet your needs—well, today.

One exciting change is including cover stories that provide a fresh perspective on key professional issues and news, such as high drug costs in last month’s magazine. You’ll see these join cover articles that highlight innovative practice models and approaches. December’s Innovations cover story (page 34) focuses on new technologies that help pharmacists tailor patient communication and increase patient safety across many practice settings and sometimes even between practices—such as health information exchanges to communicate patient data between health systems and community pharmacies.

Kicking off this month’s issue is breaking news on the release of comprehensive guidelines from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, supported by APhA, that redefine high blood pressure as a reading of 130/80 mm Hg (page 1) and the vote by the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to recommend preferred use of a recently approved herpes zoster vaccine (page 18).

The Today team also reports on looming drug shortages from hurricane-impaired manufacturing in Puerto Rico (page 32) and pharmacists having to navigate changes in opioid prescribing and dispensing (page 40). We also prepared a visually appealing guide to what you should know about Medicare prescription drug plans for 2018 (page 48). This month’s CPE provides information on new therapeutic agents marketed in 2017 (page 52).

Keep an eye out for the January 2018 issue of Today, with more new features—including the launch of our Patient Care Pearls and Career Coach columns. Let me know what you think about any of these, or what else we can do to help you, at pt@aphanet.org. I’d love to hear from you!

Have a great Today!

© 2017 American Pharmacists Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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