Crossword Challenge

Across

    1  Patients should get a medication ______every year

    5  Lumps under the skin

    8  Common genetic enzyme

    9  With 12 across, the topic of this month’s cover story

  10  Disease inherited via an abnormal chromosome

  11  Drug test sample

  12  With 9 across, the topic of this month’s cover story

  14  Substance required to survive, grow, and reproduce

  17  Government “safety net” program

  18  Typical or standard (abbr.)

  21  Patients at risk for many chronic diseases and also COVID-19

  22  Antiviral used to prevent and treat cold sores

  24  Enzyme critical to blood clotting

  25  Food common to a soft diet

  26  Witty comeback

  27  An individual who is vaccine hesitant sometimes ______ all immunizations

Down

    1  Median nerve compression is also known as ______ tunnel syndrome

    2  Testosterone ______, e.g., Delatestryl or Xyosted

    3  Common sites of osteoarthritis

    4  Lung infection

    5  Having lumps

    6  Movement from high concentration to low concentration

    7  Scandinavian country

  13  Outermost layer of skin

  15  May provide comfort to a pediatric patient

  16  Common cause of gastroenteritis

  19  Varicella _____, the virus that causes chicken pox or shingles

  20  Patients taking warfarin may need to avoid these

  22  Plant with antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties

  23  Autoimmune disease most commonly seen in women

Solution is available online at pharmacytoday.org.