January 2017 Oncology

This Continuing Education activity is supported by an educational grant from Nature Made Nutritional Products.

What should these pharmacists do?

Can you you figure out what these prescriptions say?

Read being undervalued, attitudes, and more pet peeves.

How will decreasing generic drug prices affect major players in the industry?

Read an update on Janary 2017 generic products.

Numerous, important differences exist in the ways that humans metabolize xenobiotics. These interindividual differences can directly affect the efficacy and toxicity of drugs and other foreign substances.

With mortality rates continuously climbing due to drug overdoses, the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy now provides an active online registry that allows patients to locate pharmacies that supply naloxone without a patient-specific prescription.

Tiffany Vu, a 2018 pharmd candidate at the Campbell University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, sees her future pharmacy work as an opportunity to live out her passion to serve others.

Some individuals mistake for-credit pharmacy technician programs as expensive test-prep courses that take too much time and money.

The police arrested an intoxicated man who had passed out on someone else’s private property and possessed 2 vials containing prescription medications.

For many years, hydrocodone was the most prescribed drug in the United States—overall, not just among controlled substances—and available only in immediate-release form, mostly in combination with acetaminophen.

Fatigue and tiredness often get confused. Tiredness happens to everyone; it is a feeling expected after certain activities or at the end of a long day and is usually resolved by a good night’s sleep.

Driven by the graying of America, more than 75% of all newly diagnosed cancers occur in people aged 55 or older. Oncology—and oncology pharmacists—are changing hats swiftly.

Over the past 2 decades, the cancer death rate has drastically declined in the United States, falling 23% from its 1991 peak. This translates to 1.7 million lives saved.

Read about the new OTC products featured in January 2017.

Although eating a healthy and balanced diet is considered the optimal approach for meeting nutritional needs and obtaining the recommended essential vitamins, minerals, and trace elements for good health, many individuals still find it difficult to do so.

It was with great fanfare that Amazon announced early last month that it had made its first drone delivery from its Cambridge, England, facility. I thought it interesting that the Wall Street Journal’s article about the launch of the service used medication delivery as an exemplar to highlight the advantages of drone delivery not once, but twice.

One single person—one single voice—can change the world as we know it.

Which OTC products should these pharmacists recommend?

The antibacterial agent linezolid would not be expected to participate in drug–drug interactions via the cytochrome P450 (CYP) system because it does not appear to be a substrate, inhibitor, or inducer of such isozymes.

Several medications are available on the market with names that begin with “Depo-,” meaning they are administered via a depot injection that deposits the drug into localized tissue from which it is gradually absorbed by surrounding tissue.

Read about the new Rx products featured in January.

For 2016, American health care providers will have delivered bad news to an estimated 1.7 million patients. “You have cancer,” they’ll have said. Thirty-five percent of these patients will eventually die from the disease, which actually is an improvement over past decades because of better cancer treatments.

​The FDA has approved byvalson (nebivolol and valsartan) tablets by Allergan for the treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure [BP]).