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Preventing Stress Ulcers with Acid Suppression
Acid suppression therapy is commonly used for gastrointestinal (GI) prophylaxis in health systems.Over the past 25 years, medications that reduce gastric acid or protect the stomach mucosa have been credited in lowering the risk of stress...
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an idiopathic chronic disorder with a relapsing and remitting course.1 Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) fall under IBD's umbrella, but have different pathogeneses, inflammatory profiles,...
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Chronic Care Focus: The Recovering Addict
Addiction is not a problem of willpower or environment,1 and pharmacists who cling to these now outmoded beliefs risk alienating patients and missing the opportunity to help.Addiction stems from a complex set of processes in the brain's...
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Roundup: Reviewing the Pharmacotherapy of AMI in the Health System
Approximately 1.5 million people in the United States experience acute myocardial infarction (AMI) each yearnearly one third result in mortality, and almost half of those mortalities occur before patients receive medical treatment.1 Most AMI...
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Editor's Note: Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water
Over the past 2 years, you may have read an article in the lay press on pharmaceuticals getting into the drinking water.Finding measurable amounts of drugs in the drinking water is a global issue, with reports documenting contamination...
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Chronic Care Focus: Controlling Diabetes in the ICU
The quality of care for patients with diabetes has gotten better over the last decade in the United States, but there is still much room for improvement.Analysis from 2 federally funded studies recently showed that the probability of...
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Educating Our 'Captive' Audience About Adherence
It rankles me when our patients are described as consumers, but at least it is not as distasteful as customer.I highlight this issue because when we refer to those we serve as patients, it reminds us that pharmacists have a professional...
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The Erosion of the Patient?Provider Relationship
the FDA issued a public health advisory on varenicline (Chantix) alerting providers and patients to new safety warnings related to possible neuropsychiatric symptoms with the drug's use.In the same advisory, a physician director for the...
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Editor's Note: Efforts Under Way to Document Quality of MTM Services
Pharmacy Times Editor, Health-Systems Pharmacy Section Mr.McAllister is a health-systems consultant based in Chapel Hill, NC. Last month I wrote a commentary on pharmacy's focus on quality and described study results revealing the great...
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Hair Loss Products
Androgenetic alopecia (commonly known as pattern hereditary hair loss) is the most common type of hair loss, affecting an estimated one third of all men and one sixth of women in the United States.1 Dihydrotestosterone plays a key role in...
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