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Don Interactions - Articles
Don’t write about your physician interaction online, ok? Dumb.
by
Drew W.
Posted
Thu 05 Mar 2009 5:15am
Some physicians are upset because anonymous patients are leaving (reckless? sniping?) comments on review sites like Angie’s List and Zagat’s. Welcome to the internet.
The response? They’re asking patient’s to sign what amounts to a gag order (waiver form) according to this Associated Press article. Welcome to medicine.
Dumb. Really dumb. ...
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JAMIA: Pharmacy CDS tools spotty at identifying drug-drug interactions
by
Adam Chee
Posted
Thu 06 Jan 2011 12:00am
I had wanted to write an article on CDS (a previous project I worked got me involved in CDSS for quite a fair bit), hence I thought this article from CMIO would serve as a great way to introduce the topic to you readers
Many pharmacy clinical decision-support (CDS) systems don’t always identify well-known, clinically relevant drug- ...
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Humana’s End Run to Deny Addiction Coverage
by
SuboxDoc
Posted
Thu 27 Jan 2011 4:35am
Humana Health Insurance recently revised their guidelines to ultimately reduce the number of scripts for Suboxone that they will cover. I am in the process of writing the Humana Grievance Department a letter to regain coverage for a patient who was doing very well on the medication. To provide context, last week I learned of a former pat ...
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Don't Stop: The Importance of Epilepsy Treatment
by
EpilepsyTeam ..
Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 1:49pm
TRACY GLAUSER, MD: Seizures are electrical storms on the surface of the brain. Epilepsy is the condition of chronic, recurrent, unprovoked seizures.
Seizures occur in 10 percent of the population over the course of one's life. Epilepsy occurs in 1 percent of the general population, approximately three million people in the United States.
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Love Grapefruit? Beware Drug Interactions
by
CK Wilde
Posted
Tue 10 Feb 2009 11:04am
Juicy, Sweet Ruby Grapefruit
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
February is National Grapefruit Month. It is peak season for these luscious pink and ruby beauties. Our local supermarkets are offering specials on Texas grown varieties.
If you haven’t tried a grapefruit in a long time, you will be pleasantly surprised to discover that ...
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Are You Guarding Against Drug Interactions?
by
CAMed ..
Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 1:49pm
ANNOUNCER: All medicines have side effects, and patients are generally advised about them. But what many people don't realize is that medicines can react with other things we take into our bodies, as well as with other drugs.
JOHN HORN, PharmD: There are some situations when a person takes multiple medications where those medications might inter ...
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Merck’s Cavalier Attitude Towards the Welfare of HIV/HCV Coinfected Patients
by
Nelson V.
Posted
Tue 10 Apr 2012 12:00am
What You Don’t Know, You Can Selltagline Spring 2012< http://www. treatmentactiongroup.org/ tagline/2012/spring/tagline/ 2012/spring >by Tracy SwanIn places where access to antiretroviral therapy is widespread, peopleliving with HIV are now dying from a common and curable coinfection:hepatitis C virus (HCV). HIV increases the risk for, and accel ...
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Tossing the Baby Out with the Bath Water
by
Alvin B. Lin
Posted
Mon 25 Mar 2013 3:00am
While I was doing the online equivalent of dumpster diving this weekend, I stumbled upon a number of tweets and questions surrounding the use of medications. On the one hand, many people write into any number of health care forums (I participate on www.healthtap.com ) and ask about possible drug-drug interactions regarding their regimen. ...
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Brown Bag Review to save your health and life
by
Dr. Richard Keller
Posted
Wed 24 Dec 2008 11:26am
A Tribune article this morning talks about a recently released study reiterating the point that drug-drug interactions are very common and can cause serious problems, particularly in “older” folks.
Overall, 1 in 25 older adults risked serious drug interactions, the study found. For men ages 75 to 85, it was as high as 1 in 10.
It also p ...
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7 Reasons Why Parents Won’t Take Medication
by
CK Wilde
Posted
Tue 22 Dec 2009 6:43pm
By CK Wilde for 3GenFamily Blog
It is one of the smallest things that I do time-wise, yet I learn so much from doing it. As a Health Maven for the Caregiving community on Wellsphere.com, I answer questions from others about a wide range of issues in providing care for loved ones. I don’t get paid to do this.
Recently, I was asked, “How ...
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