June 2016 Women's Health

In January 2010, Dominique Dormeville watched as her parents' home country of Haiti suffered in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that affected many of her friends and relatives.

Patients prescribed a branded drug instead of an equivalent generic spent an estimated $24.6 billion in excess costs between 2010 and 2012.

What should these pharmacists do?

Read about the new generic products featured in June.

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

This Continuing Education activity is supported by an educational grant from sanofi-aventis U.S.

Draft legislation to restrict direct-to-consumer advertising was recently referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Read about sexism, impatient patients, and other pet peeves.

Can you you figure out what these prescriptions say?

The role of a pharmacy technician has expanded with the increasingly clinical and patient-driven focus of pharmacy practice.

Although several health benefits are associated with seafood, recent study results indicate that women of childbearing age who expose themselves to mercury by eating seafood could be at greater risk of developing an autoimmune disorder.

Patients who survive cancer as children could be susceptible to a variety of autoimmune diseases later in life.

Recent study results suggest that spouses and first-degree relatives of patients with celiac disease may face an increased risk of nonceliac autoimmune diseases.

Patients with psoriasis who are exposed to physical trauma face an elevated risk of developing psoriatic arthritis.

An experimental biologic known as brodalumab may prove to be an effective treatment for symptoms of psoriasis.

Recent study results have suggested that patients with psoriasis are at higher risk of developing major depression than those without the inflammatory skin condition.

Gynecologic cancer is any cancer that starts in the female reproductive organs.

A patient is discharged from a hospital and told that a certain pharmacy would have the medication he needs because it is unavailable at the hospital. Then the patient is told that dispensing the pharmaceutical will not be covered by insurance.

In the several decades I have been in the business of following the diversion of pharmaceuticals, I have noticed a pendulum effect regarding this issue.

By virtue of their patient access, community pharmacists can provide front-line health education and screenings to female patients.

Nausea is the most common gastrointestinal symptom experienced during pregnancy.

Read about the new Rx Products featured in June.

Dyanavel XR extended-release oral suspension has received FDA approval for the treatment of ADHD in patients 6 years and older.

The use of fertility-enhancing medications has increased drastically over the past 30 years, with the role of the pharmacist continuing to expand within that specific niche of pharmacy.

Giving a correctly dispensed prescription to the wrong patient is a common error in community pharmacies.

We have often described drug-drug interactions that are caused by the precipitant drug inhibiting the CYP450 enzyme responsible for the metabolism of the object drug.

Cardiovascular disease accounts for 30% of all deaths worldwide, and it is not just 1 disease.

The high prevalence of obesity is contributing to the rising need for bariatric surgery.