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Jan 15, 2025 | statnews.com | Kelly Anderson |T. Joseph Mattingly

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images In May 2024, nearly 90% of pharmacies were closed for a day as thousands of pharmacists protested over “over drug shortages, pharmacy closures and fears medications could be sold online, as well as higher pay.”More recently in November 2024, pharmacy owners voted in favor of cutting hours and stopping home deliveries in a protest over funding.

Nov 4, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Kelly Anderson |Maitreyi Sahu |Michael J. DiStefano |Carl V. Asche

Pharmacy Closures and Anticonvulsant Medication Prescription Fills While the number of US community pharmacies has remained somewhat constant, there is significant instability with 1 in 8 community pharmacies closing from 2009 to 2015.1 The effects of pharmacy closures on medication use are not well understood. Anticonvulsants are a protected class of Medicare drugs; plans must include them on formularies and have limitations on utilization management.

Aug 28, 2024 | aarp.org | Jodi Helmer |Kelly Anderson

Getty Images Facebook Twitter LinkedIn One of the most distinctive harbingers of the fall season is the return of pumpkin spice — to coffee shops, to menus and to some things that aren’t even edible. Pumpkin spice flavoring is so popular that some merchants will add it to just about any product to garner attention.

Aug 9, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Angela Liu |Kelly Anderson |Joseph Levy |Thomas Johnson

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Jun 16, 2023 | journals.plos.org | Martin Rotenberg |Peter Gozdyra |Kelly Anderson |Paul Kurdyak

AnalysisWe first calculated the crude proportion of people in the entire cohort and in each LHIN for each outcome. Considering that crude proportions do not account for differences in population size across the LHINs, we used the 2016 population estimate in each LHIN based on the 2016 Canadian Census to calculate standardized event ratios (SER). We visualized SER for each outcome of interest using choropleth maps at the LHIN-level for the entire province.