Utilizing a podcast to supplement common medication learning.

Introduction: Podcasts are a popular way to learn and engage at the convenience of the listener. Education is incorporating podcasts to supplement and reinforce students learning inside and outside the classroom.

Methods: The authors created a podcast covering the Top 200 commonly prescribed medications.

Students' perceptions of computer-based testing using ExamSoft.

Introduction: In fall 2017, West Coast University School of Pharmacy implemented ExamSoft for testing. Three courses in each didactic year employed ExamSoft. Prior to this, courses had Scantron-based exams.

Efficacy of a novel orally active SERD AZD9496 against hormone dependent post-menopausal breast cancer depends on inhibition of cellular aromatase activity.

Treatment of hormone sensitive breast cancer tumors with endocrine therapy such as antiestrogens or aromatase inhibitors has improved the outcome significantly. Studies including our own have shown that downregulation of ERα with pure antiestrogen fulvestrant in combination with aromatase inhibitors may prolong responsiveness of the tumors to endocrine therapy. Fulvestrant has been studied as second line or first line treatment for post-menopausal hormone receptor positive breast cancers as a single agent or in combination with AIs.