May 2017 Skin & Eye Health

Read about circular calls, patient excuses, and more pet peeves.

Can you figure out what these prescriptions say?

What should these pharmacists do?

Read about the new generic products featured in May.

The FDA’s Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) recently released its 2016 Annual Report, which highlights the agency’s accomplishments of the past year and provides insight into the office’s performance.

The rise of opioid overdoses nationally has expanded the role of pharmacists and advocacy for pharmacists to apply their knowledge and talents to emergency situations.

A majority of the approximately 30,000 sports-related eye injuries requiring an emergency department visit that occur each year in the United States are experienced by children and teenagers, a recent study has indicated.

Although contact lenses are often considered to be safer for patients’ eyes than ocular surgery, the results of a recent study suggest that undergoing LASIK carries a lower risk of infection than wearing contacts over time.

Although the US department of health and human services recommends that individuals with high blood pressure limit their sodium intake to 1500 mg per day, recent study results presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 66th Annual Scientific Session have indicated that sodium consumption has increased among these patients.

Intensive treatment focused on lowering systolic blood pressure could lead to significant reductions in mortality rates, according to the results of a recent study published in Circulation.

This Continuing Education activity is supported by an educational grant from Merck Sharpe & Dohme Corp.

The results of a recent study published in the American Journal of Hypertension demonstrate that children with high levels of uric acid are more likely to develop high blood pressure than those with normal uric acid levels.

When a mail order pharmacy is subject to sanctions by a board of pharmacy in a different state, may the board of pharmacy in another state to which the mail order pharmacy distributes prescription medications apply sanctions?

My first introduction to the world of counterfeit prescription drugs was approximately 2 decades ago, when someone who worked for Pfizer showed me 2 identical-looking Viagra tablets on screen at a drug-training course.

Traveling abroad can expose patients to a number of risks—infectious diseases, foodborne illness, and transportation accidents.

Dry eye is a common condition, occurring when tears do not provide adequate lubrication for the eyes.

The following medication errors have occurred in community or ambulatory practice sites at least once, and they will happen again—perhaps where you work.

The FDA has approved an expanded indication for Tresiba to improve glycemic control in patients with diabetes as young as 1 year.

Read about the new Rx products featured in May.

In 1989, researchers doing a study designed to assess a drug interaction between ethanol and felodipine accidentally discovered that grapefruit juice substantially increased felodipine plasma concentrations.

Psoriasis is an itchy, uncomfortable, hyperproliferative dermatologic condition that tends to affect patients’ elbows, knees, scalp, umbilicus, lumbar regions, fingernails, toenails, and areas with skinfolds.

Read about the new OTC products featured in May.

What OTC products should these pharmacists recommend?

Minor wounds and burns are common, so it is important to know how to manage these injuries and to have the proper first-aid products readily available.

I’ve written a number of articles over the past few months and years about the unstoppable, unwavering, and now accelerating march toward value-driven care and payment reform.

Studies continue to confirm what Dale Carnegie promoted decades ago: happy workers are more productive.