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Do expiration dates make a difference?
Fewer than a third of adults clean out their medicine cabinet annually—compared with 49% who update their wardrobe to reflect the current season.
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R.Ph.s feel pain of those on chronic opioid therapy
Opioids decrease pain and improve functioning. But some patients are reluctant to take opioids because they want to "be engaged in life." So said Pharm.D. Suzanne Amato Nesbit, clinical pharmacy specialist in pain management and clinical coordinator of the cancer pain service at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
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Herb-drug interactions: Interactions between saw palmetto and prescription medications
Patients over age 50 typically present with one chronic disease per decade. Each chronic disease typically requires long-term drug therapy, meaning most older patients require several drugs to maintain health. Simultaneously, use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has increased in the United States in the last 20 years, reaching 36% in 2002; herbal medicine use accounts for approximately 22% of all CAM use. Older adults often add herbal medicines to prescription medications, yet do not always inform their physicians.
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Diuretics: Still first-line therapy for hypertension
A revolution in the pharmacologic treatment of hypertension is under way, according to experts reporting at a conference called "The State of the Hypertension Nation," held recently in New York City. Here are some highlights from the conference.
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