Novel Agents Supplant Chemotherapy as 1L CLL Therapy in VA
For years, chemotherapy provided the only hope for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
VA Researchers Illuminate a New Blood Cancer, a Novel Type of CLL
In the case of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with prolymphocytic progression, a newly defined and very rare type of cancer, the scale of the VA and the number of patients it treats with leukemia allowed VA researchers to describe the characteristics and progression of the disease and begin to understand how it responds to current therapies.
VA Works to Comply With Expansion of Eligibility Under New PACT Act
Now that the first major provisions of the PACT Act went into effect at the beginning of last month, what happens next?
Pharmacist Email Alerts Don’t Reduce Opioid, Benzodiazepines Prescribing
Email alerts sent from pharmacists to practitioners who prescribe opioids and benzodiazepines fail to reduce concurrent prescribing of these medications, which can put patients at risk of overdose, according to a new study.