My library gives free nyt games subscriptions now and you can make your own wordle! But drug names on not in the dictionary so any hope of med wordle is lost You're invited to play a puzzle created by Pharmacy. www.nytimes.com/games/create...

Friendly reminder for everyone

Does anyone in #pharmsky understand what all these stories about Medicare negotiating drug prices for Eliquis, jardiance, etc? Is it changing the copays for Medicare patients, or just the "list price"?

I've had three older patients in the last few months fall for the deep fake videos of Dr Gupta hawking memory supplements. Two I only caught during a more in depth med Rec and got them to bring it up. Are other people seeing this? #medsky #pharmsky www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/h...

Watching the ridiculous Red One on Amazon prime after watching Rudolph with the kids and I can't get over how much better of a Santa J.K Simmons is than in Rudolph

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Team #RxHunger got enough donations yesterday to bring us to $2424, but there are a lot of people in #PharmSky who haven't participated yet. Addressing food insecurity when it is at such unprecedented levels in the US and around the world will take everyone who can give. Many orgs have matching $!

I will never get over the fact that the brand name of the epinephrine nasal spray "neffy" is not capitalized. #pharmsky

1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.

Hi friends and followers! 👋 Can you please take a moment to tell our government to protect all vaccines? 👶🏼 Have to do it before 11:59 pm TONIGHT. You do NOT have to be a clinician and Dr. Stone has great suggestions for wording ⤵️ Thank you! ❤️ www.regulations.gov/commenton/CD...

Ok, new Common Sense just released. It's timely and pithy and hopefully you think it worth your time (and mine). We called it: "Who's the Boss?" dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart. Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE. ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.

Check out @wypartnership.bsky.social and @england.nhs.uk's new webpage on "Anticholinergic Medicines" and their risks below 👇 www.wypartnership.co.uk/our-prioriti... Always great to see new resources promoting safe medication use in older adults!

For years, Clint believed that vaccines caused his son's autism. Then he realized the anti-vaccine movement had misled him. "I’m thankful that I’ve come around, and I hope my experience will help someone else do the same." www.voicesforvaccines.org/autism-paren...

I am rereading Frankenstein for the first time since high school after watching the Netflix movie. I really expected to draw a lot of parallels to AI, but really what struck me the was this passage about the importance of finding time for joy in your life in the context of the world today.

Home invasions. Child sex crimes. Homicide. Just a couple things that some of the 1500+ January 6 defendants have been convicted of since Trump released them back onto our streets. The GOP isn't the party of law and order. They're the party of lawlessness and violence.

Trump's America is a safe place for racists. We need to be loud against this.

💉✨ Vaccine Facts Matter ✨💉 Autism Society of America supports... 'vaccines as a tool in preventing serious illnesses, disabilities, death. Decades of ...research have repeatedly affirmed the safety and efficacy of vaccines, including their lack of connection to Autism' (Dec 2024) #PedsIDsky #Rxsky

Am I the only one who keeps seeing this ad? #pharmsky

Feel like this hit hard today. "living in a very unpleasant world"

I can't get over this quote "Researchers also don’t know why health insurance appears to play a role in mortality even when it shouldn’t." #medsky www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Let them.... Not eat cake? #medsky www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

And residents! #pharmsky

One of the coolest shows I've ever seen. #davidbyrne

I just had my patient call me saying they was worried they got scammed by this add for a supplement and I googled it and it is wild! Has anyone else seen this? They spent over $300 today and I feel awful. What a fun future we have in front of us. www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/h... #medsky #pharmsky

This is the first time I've had it proofread my 9 year old's writing assignment. How do I turn off my precpetor brain and not have him hate me with one million suggestions? #pharmsky

Trying this post again. I've had success with some underground railroad graphic novels and "monarch" book awards. Any book recommendations? Been thinking about this more again

This is terrifying! ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents) This is Trump’s America.

I need to do a pharmacology lecture to physicians about glp1s. Is my memory from pharmacy school correct? Am I allowed to do one without a picture of a gila monster? #pharmsky

Unrelated to anything I normally comment on, just need to remind everyone after paying to watch their 10 year anniversary reunion special, #WoodenOvercoats is a fantastic podcast in the vain of fawlty towers and should be way more popular. Thank you

Was I the only one secretly hoping ace inhibitors wouldn't be first line anymore or at least have an asterisk near them or something? Is there a good use case for them over ARBs? #pharmsky

Asking for a colleague. Does anyone work on the amb care side with gender affirming care with lupron and triptodur? I think having some access issues about white vs brownbagging and I'm in over my head. Looking for some resources #pharmsky

What is the best way to get a patient with no insurance (but eligible for part d) basal/bolus insulin at an affordable price? They can't afford the penalty with d, don't qualify for medicaid or extra help and they don't qualify for PAP It seems like the $35 programs don't apply? #pharmsky

Children exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays at age 24 months: 🧠36% cognitive delays 🗣️64% communication delays 🏃57% had motor delays 🧪 Specific developmental delays were related to specific inflammation cytokines found in their cord blood at birth. buff.ly/AQSfBm9 #Medsky #Pedsky 🛟😷

Never been so in awe during any nature/hiking vacations before such amazing sites. #banff

Never been so in awe during any nature/hiking vacations before such amazing sites. #banff

Did anyone else on #pharmsky watch the spelling bee finals? Brand name Symlin was one of the final words

Hey Pharmsky and Medsky Seeing a lot more chronic colchicine lately from cardoliolgy.... How are people approaching the statin/colchicine drug interaction? Just let it be as the trials seem to say it's okay?

Currently watching mission impossible 2. That this miracle virus cure is going to be sold for the immense cost of "37 million pounds" is crazy to think about when i compare it to a normal prescription medication #pharmsky

I think I've asked this before but not sure I got an answer. For Medicare patients who can't afford their inhalers and aren't candidates for PAP or MPP, is going through part B and nebbulizers any more affordable? Medsky Pharmsky

ACCP put together a statement about risks of pharmacy residency programs losing funding from Medicare (that they didn't post here) Throw it on the pile of terrible things happening, but takes a second to sign www.votervoice.net/mobile/ACCP/... Pharmsky Medsky

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

Thanks. Everyone seems mad at me again (as usual...from both sides). We did a "soft release" on this CS show (first in 3 years)so that those who never unsubscribed from the feed and REALLY wanted this got first crack at it. They got that. So here's the link: dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

Does this Ashp daily email headline compared to the text in story and article seems like an odd choice? Or am I just reading too much into stuff these days. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #pharmsky

I have insomnia a lot lately so may as well share what’s literally keeping me up at night. It’s a long list but tonight it’s flu. Yes, H5N1, but also seasonal flu. Firing federal scientists brings a flu-filled future. Have you ever wondered how flu vaccine strains are chosen?

This piece by @dereklowe.bsky.social for @science.org is everything you want to know about the current state of governmental science in the US It is not good What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

With all the nonsense going on... I've been getting books from the library on sciencey stuff for my 8yo. Got a really interesting comic "a shot in the arm" that he really liked. (I learned a lot!) Are there other "fun" kids books on public health/be nice to people topic? #medsky #pharmsky

The antidote for despair is action ❤️ * Dial (202) 224-3121 * Enter zip code * Leave voicemail * Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so) “The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.” Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅

Hey #pharmsky #medsky, What are you telling patients trying to get their glp-1s when insurance mandates 3 month mail order fills but their own mail order refuses to fill 3 months? Super frustrating...

What is the heck is wrong with Symbicort these days? I keep getting calls on new prescriptions for Symbicort not written DAW asking for new prescriptions for Breyna. I keep saying it's ab rated and interchangeable and I've had multiple pharmacists refuse. Am I missing something? #Pharmsky