A November 2022 study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology spotlights the racial disparities in current cholesterol treatment guidelines that are based on studies overrepresenting white patients.

Clarissa Chan, PharmD

Updates from FDA

According to CDC, 8.4% of adults took sleep medication either every day or most days to help them fall or stay asleep in 2020.

Mary Warner

S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAMe) is a compound found naturally in the body, produced in the liver.

Mickie Cathers

For years, patients with asthma have been prescribed regimens that include several different inhalers, requiring them to remember the correct timing and situation for using each one.

Lauren Howell, PharmD

The latest CDC data find that deaths involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl increased by a staggering 80% over the past 2 years. These drugs were involved in more than two-thirds of the overdose deaths in the year ending March 2022.

Loren Bonner

Ninety-five percent of gabapentin prescriptions are written for off-label pain management, despite studies questioning gabapentin’s effectiveness for managing pain, and reports of its misuse with simultaneous opioid therapy.

Loren Bonner

Too often, clinicians question whether they are making the right decision about a patient’s anticoagulation therapy with planned, nonemergent surgical procedures.

Ariel L. Clark, PharmD

Updates from FDA

Herbs and herbal products have been used during pregnancy for centuries and have recently become popular through the widespread belief that it is “safer to go natural.”

Mickie Cathers