November 2017 Cough, Cold, & Flu

The cost savings for a generic version of an orally administered cancer treatment was less than expected.

I consider it a great privilege to be able to serve my patients and empower them to improve their health.

Can a participant in a clinical research study conducted at a public university academic health center maintain a lawsuit against the institution for damages suffered when she attempted suicide, allegedly because of the combination of medications administered as part of the study?

In the 1990s, it was discovered that Americans were being undertreated for pain, something that I think was valid then and is still valid today.

Brown bag sessions and medication therapy management (MTM) can greatly help patients with chronic diseases.

Pseudoephedrine has been around since the 1920s.

The purpose of the drug supply chain security act (DSCSA) was to create an electronic system to track and trace certain prescription drugs in the United States.

The fda has approved mydayis (mixed salts of a single-entity amphetamine product, by Shire) to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in patients 13 years or older.

If community pharmacies are to succeed in obtaining payment for enhanced services, then someone needs to help payers understand what pharmacists are doing to improve outcomes and reduce costs.

We have published cases of medications dispensed before they were reconstituted, particularly unmixed antibiotics.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)—irreversible—requires long-term adherence to pharmacotherapies for best outcomes.

Drug–drug interactions usually occur when the drug that causes the interaction, called the precipitant or perpetrator, affects another drug, called the object or victim.

Read about the new OTC Products featured in November.

Which OTC products should these pharmacists recommend?

During this time of year, many patients are likely to seek counsel regarding the proper selection from the plethora of nonprescription products on the market to treat and manage the symptoms generally associated with the common cold and the seasonal flu.

When I started thinking about what I needed for my 40th birthday party, I did what any reasonable person going through a midlife crisis would do: searched online for a beer pong table.