Blueberry Pharmacy · Pittsburgh area

The Blueberry Post

The Blueberry Post covers prescription pricing, pharmacy benefit managers, medication access, and the work of building a more patient-first pharmacy system.

Articles are written to help patients, clinicians, and employers understand the forces that affect medication costs and access.

Prescription Prices Without Inflation

Author credit: Ashley Quinlan (Duquesne University) and Colin Schurek (Pitt Pharmacy), PharmD Candidates 2026 The purpose of this price analysis is to…

By Kyle McCormick ·

$0 Now, Bigger Costs Later

While zero-dollar copays may appear to benefit patients by eliminating out-of-pocket costs, this approach can mask deeper harms. Below is a breakdown of how…

By Kyle McCormick ·

Breathless Heat: Managing Asthma in Summer

Kayelyn Brophy, PharmD Candidate 2025 at Duquesne University Summer is here, bringing warmer days, campfires, and outdoor adventures. However, for those…

By Kyle McCormick ·

A quest to objectively measure quality

This week we launched a first-of-its-kind (to our knowledge) dashboard in a community pharmacy. We know saving patients money is important, but there is so…

By Kyle McCormick ·

Truvada vs Descovy: Why the Switch?

By Grace Havens, PharmD Candidate 2023 (Pitt) Truvada is a brand-name HIV nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI), used to prevent and…

By Kyle McCormick ·