October 2018 Diabetes

Insulin education is a key component of diabetes management.

Brown-bag consults can be essential educational and safety tools to measure and ensure quality care.

In spring 2018, the FDA approved the Dexcom G6 CGM System, an integrated continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system for those with type 1 or type 2 diabetes who are as young as 2 years.

The prevalence of obesity has reached 39.8% of Americans, affecting 93.3 million of US adults.

The combined use of valproic acid and a carbapenem is likely to occur in patients with central nervous system infections resulting from head trauma or surgical procedures; serious systemic infections, including pneumonia; and generalized seizure disorders.

Interest in dietary fat and its effects on cardiovascular disease date to the 1930s, when animal experiments indicated that dietary cholesterol contributed to an elevated serum cholesterol level, which resulted in the development of atherosclerosis.

Unsafe injection practices have affected over 150,000 patients since 2001 and have led to more than 50 documented outbreaks of bacterial infections or viral hepatitis, according to the CDC.

An estimated 1 in 4 patients with diabetes develops foot complications at some point.

As community pharmacists, we are often the most accessible members of the health care team.

Imagine a patient walking into your pharmacy with a new prescription from a physician appointment that day. After the technicians process the prescription and the pharmacist has reviewed everything, the patient is ready to be checked out.

When a trial court judge rules that a claim of negligence against a pharmacy should be dismissed and the plaintiffs appeal, what will the state’s highest court decide is the appropriate outcome?

With medical marijuana scheduled to be sold in ohio as early as December, the situation will get interesting, to say the least, as qualifying prescribers will not be writing prescriptions but providing “recommendations.”

Pharmacists have traditionally played a role in the frontline fight against influenza, but in recent years, that role has become even more important.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) establishes regulations to lessen the risk or prevent drug diversion.

An industry-wide fire is raging, and what got you here will not get you to where you want to go.

The first generic drug company in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is opening to provide cost-effective drugs to a community with limited access.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd has released Qvar Redihaler (beclomethasone dipropionate HFA).

Read about the Rx products featured in October.

Read about the generic products featured in October.

Read about the OTC products featured in October.

What OTC products should these pharamcists recommend?

What should these pharmacists do?

Can you figure out what these prescriptions say?

Read about rude patients, arrogant doctors, and more pharmacy pet peeves.

Stead Family Children’s Hospital was built on a tiny piece of real estate between the main campus of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) and Kinnick Stadium, home to the University of Iowa Hawkeyes.

October once again marks American Pharmacists Month, and given the significant impact that pharmacists make on their patients’ health, there is certainly much to celebrate.