To determine the impact of advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPE) on student self-confidence related to medication therapy management (MTM), fourth-year pharmacy students were surveyed pre/post APPE to: identify exposure to MTM learning opportunities, assess knowledge of the MTM core components, and assess self-confidence performing MTM services. An anonymous electronic questionnaire adm...

OBJECTIVES To collect and describe payer perspectives regarding (1) implementation strategies used for providing medication therapy management (MTM) services to patients/clients; (2) specific measures, if any, used to quantify the costs and benefits of MTM; (3) how the value of MTM services was tracked during 2007; and (4) barriers to offering MTM services to patients/clients. DESIGN Descript...

OBJECTIVE To compare the attitudes of community pharmacy managers who did and did not contract with Mirixa to provide Medicare Part D medication therapy management (MTM) services in 2006. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING United States in 2006. PARTICIPANTS 100 pharmacy managers contracted to provide MTM services in 2006 and 100 pharmacy managers not contracted to provide ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that there were greater racial and ethnic disparities among individuals who were ineligible for medication therapy management (MTM) services than among MTM-eligible individuals before the implementation of Medicare Part D in 2006. OBJECTIVE To determine whether the implementation of Medicare Part D in 2006 correlates to changes in racial and ethnic dispa...

OBJECTIVE Medication therapy management (MTM) has the potential to play an instrumental role in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care. However, previous research has found that Blacks and Hispanics are less likely to be eligible for MTM. The purpose of the current study was to examine the potential effects of MTM eligibility criteria on racial and ethnic disparities in health ou...

A. Shvetsov,1,* A. M. Satanin,1 Franco Nori,2,3 S. Savel’ev,3,4 and A. M. Zagoskin3,4,† 1Nizhny Novgorod State University, Gagarin Avenue, 23, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 2Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA 3CEMS, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 4Department of Physics, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom (Received 14 ...

Wnt proteins are lipid-modified glycoproteins that have important roles in development, adult tissue homeostasis and disease. Secretion of Wnt proteins from producing cells is mediated by the Wnt-binding protein MIG-14/Wls, which binds Wnt in the Golgi network and transports it to the cell surface for release. It has recently been shown that recycling of MIG-14/Wls from the plasma membrane to t...

Antibiotics methymycin (MTM) and pikromycin (PKM), co-produced by Streptomyces venezuelae, represent minimalist macrolide protein synthesis inhibitors. Unlike other macrolides, which carry several side chains, a single desosamine sugar is attached to the macrolactone ring of MTM and PKM. In addition, the macrolactone scaffold of MTM is smaller than in other macrolides. The unusual structure of ...

OBJECTIVES To introduce an innovative clinical service that can be used to reduce medication errors and improve quality of care in the rural environment, in order to assist in eliminating or alleviating disparities in health based on geographical location. SUMMARY Virtual medication therapy management (MTM) will be a tool to assist underserved populations, specifically residents of rural comm...

Muscles must maintain cell compartmentalization when remodeled during development and use. How spatially restricted adhesions are regulated with muscle remodeling is largely unexplored. We show that the myotubularin (mtm) phosphoinositide phosphatase is required for integrin-mediated myofiber attachments in Drosophila melanogaster, and that mtm-depleted myofibers exhibit hallmarks of human XLMT...