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APhA The First Fill — 108 episodes

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4.2026 Part 2: Seek mentors early and intentionally

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4.2026 Part 1: Show up. And continue to show up.

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3.2026 Part 2: Why Ethics Matter - A Pharmacy Technicians Perspective

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3.2026 Part 1: Ethical Crossroads in Pharmacy Practice - A Pharmacists Perspective

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2.2026 Part 2: Diabetes and Weight Management

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2.2026 Part 1: Managing Diabetes with Comorbid Disease

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1.2026 Part 2: Both Sides of the Script: Pharmacists in Transitions of Care

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1.2026 Part 1: Both Sides of the Script: Pharmacists in Transitions of Care

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12.2025 Part 2: Battle to once weekly insulin approval – insulin icodec

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12.2025 Part 1: Battle to once weekly insulin approval – insulin efsitora alfa

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10.2025 Part 2 A Clinicians Perspective on HRT and Breast Cancer

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10.2025 Part 1: HRT and Young Onset Breast Cancer

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09.2025 Part 2: Implementing Hypertension Guidelines in Practice

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09.2025 Part 1: Hypertension Guideline Update

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2025.08 EP 2: Advancing HIV Care: The Pharmacists Role in Treatment and Prevention

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08.2025 Part 1: New Drug Update

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06.2025 Part 2: Advancing Cardiovascular Outcomes: The Pharmacist's Role in Post-ACS and ASCVD Risk Reduction

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2025.06 Part 1: ACS Guideline Update

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05.2025 Part 2: Pharmacists supporting maternal health

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05.2025 Part 1: WHO 2024 Maternal Health Recommendations: What Every Pharmacist Should Know

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2025.04 Part 2: Expanding opportunities for reimbursement in digital therapeutics

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04.2025 Ep 1: Regulatory and Reimbursement pathways for digital therapeutics

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2025.03 Part 2: Practice Pearls on New Drugs for Pharmacists

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2025.03 Part 1: New Drug Update

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2025.02 Part 2: Optimizing Transitions of Care: The Pharmacist's Role

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2025.02 Part 1 Enhancing Medication Safety in Transitions of Care

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2025.01 Part 2: M3P on the Front Lines

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2025.01 Part 1: Part 1 2025 Medicare Updates

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2024.12: Part 2 Reducing stigma for improved HIV antiretroviral adherence

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2024.12 Part 1: Guideline Updates For use of Antiretroviral Agents

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2024.11 Part 2: Stories from a mental health clinical pharmacy practitioner

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2024.11 Part 1: Veteran's Affairs Clinical Pharmacy Providers and Mental Health

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2024.10 Part 2: Shame and stigma in SUD

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2024.10 Part 1: Pharmacists Impacting Public Health

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2024.09 Part 2: Fall Prevention in Practice

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2024.09 Part 1: Fall Prevention Update

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2024.05 Ep 5: The GIGO Principle: Inappropriate CAP Diagnosis Results in Unnecessary Antibiotic Exposure in Hospitalized Adults

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2024.05 Ep 4 Potentially Dangerous Drug Combos

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2024.05 Ep 3: Antihypertensive medication and fracture risk in nursing home residents

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2024.05 Ep 2 Watch the QT in HD

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2024.05 Ep 1 Thiopurines in Pregnancy

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2024.04 Ep 5 New Drug Update: Vadadustat

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2024.04 Ep 4 First Prescription Digital Therapeutic to Treat Major Depressive Disorder

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2024.04 Ep 3 The Approval of Aprocitentan for Hypertension

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2024.04 Ep 2 New Drug Update: Resmetirom

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2024.04 Ep 1 Pemivibart granted Emergency Use Authorization

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2024.03 Ep 5 Cannabis and CVD Risk

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2024.03 Ep 4 Decipher Biologics and Biosimilars (Interchangeable)

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2024.03 Ep 3 Xolong Food Allergies?

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2024.03 Ep 2 OTC Oral Contraceptive Hits the Shelves

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2024 03 Ep1: Quick COVID Update from APhA2024

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2024 Feb Ep 4: Catching up with Mavacamten

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2024 Feb Ep5: Mortality Trends Related to Diabetic Hyperglycemic Crisis

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2024 Feb Ep3: In the Blink of an Eye

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2024 Feb Ep2: Denosumab in CKD

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2024 Feb Ep1: Do you use Real Time Benefit Tools?

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2024 January Ep5: GLP1-RA FDA Update on Suicidal Thoughts or Actions

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2024 January Ep4: Looking Out for Sub-Clinical Atrial Fibrillation (SCAF)

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2024 January Ep3: Top 5 Update in 2024 Standards of Care in Diabetes

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2024 January Ep1: Change those Prescribing Habits STAT for Antimicrobial Stewardship

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2024 January Ep2: Is It That Time of Year Again? SAD Refresher

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2023 Nov/Dec Ep5: Tirzepatide FDA-Approval

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2023 Nov/Dec Ep4: (meno)Pause for a 2023 Update on Non-Hormone Therapies

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2023 Nov/Dec Ep3: Look Out for Cytisinicline

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2023 Nov/Dec Ep2: Where Do You See Misinformation the Most?

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2023 Nov/Dec Ep1: Update on Antibiotics Associated with C. Diff

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2023 October Ep5: Tenapanor for CKD

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2023 October Ep4: Top 5 Things to Know - Maternal RSV Vaccination

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2023 October Ep3: Sleeping Through the Noise

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2023 October Ep2: Intro to Digital Health

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2023 October Ep1: Oral Phenylephrine

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2023 September Ep5: Nirsevimab for Pediatrics

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2023 September Ep4: 5-minute COVID-19 Vaccine Update

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2023 September Ep3: Zuranolone: Not Down with PPD (postpartum depression)

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2023 September Ep2: HIV PrEP Counseling Points

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2023 September Ep1: System Error!: AI and Large Language Models

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2023 August Ep5: PGx: Did you know...?

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2023 August Ep4: Intro to AI in Pharmacy

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2023 August Ep3: Rx Holds Prior to Surgery

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2023 August Ep2: HPV and Oral Cancer Prevention

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2023 August Ep1: Cannabis & Pregnancy

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2023 July Ep5: Xylazine: 5 Things Pharmacists Need to Know

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2023 July Ep4: Recommendations on the Use of Non-Sugar Sweetners

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2023 July Ep3: Berberine's Potential Metabolic Benefits

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2023 July Ep2: Lecanemab for Alzheimer's Disease

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2023 July Ep1: OTC Oral Norgestrel Contraceptive

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2023 June Ep5: Nalmefene for Opioid Overdose

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2023 June Ep4: De-emphasizing How We Use BMI

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2023 June Ep3: Sotagliflozin (dual SGLT1 and SGLT2 inhibitor) Approval

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2023 June Ep2: Colchicine for Reduction of Risk of Cardiovascular Events

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2023 June Ep1: 2023 Beers Criteria Update - Anticoagulants

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2023 May Ep5: A First Step in Identifying Long COVID

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2023 May Ep4: OTC Naloxone

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2023 May Ep3: Oral Semaglutide

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2023 May Ep2: The Buzz Around Boric Acid

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2023 May Ep1: 2023 Beers Criteria Update - Sulfonylureas

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2023 April Ep5: Top 5 Updates in the 2023 Standards of Care in Diabetes

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2023 April Ep4: Bempedoic Acid

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2023 April Ep3: Vitamin D and Dementia

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2023 April Ep2: Caffeine Withdrawal

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2023 April Ep1: Biosimilars in 5 minutes!

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Tell me more about The First Fill!

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2023 March Ep5: Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy

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2023 March Ep4: Teplizumab for the Delay of Type 1 Diabetes

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2023 March Ep3: Practice Guidelines for Children with Obesity

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2023 March Ep2: Mifepristone

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2023 March Ep1: Tirzepatide and Semaglutide for Weight Loss

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