Corena Hughes, a 45-year-old veterinary technician, weighed in at 215 pounds when she decided she had to try something different.

Sonya Collins

Recently, paroxetine 20 mg tablets were found in a prescription bottle along with the prescribed promethazine 25 mg tablets. Upon investigation, it was determined that multiple bottles of paroxetine had been added to the automated dispensing technology’s (e.g., vialdispensing robot) cell containing promethazine 25 mg.

Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, PA

In the July 2023 issue of Pharmacy Today, I summarized a pharmacy case from the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court ruled that the knowledge requirement in the federal False Claims Act (FCA) refers to “actual knowledge and subjective beliefs—not to what an objectively reasonable person may have known and believed.”

David B. Brushwood, BSPharm, JD

During the fall of 2023, pharmacy personnel staged walkouts at Walgreens and CVS stores citing unhealthy and unjust working conditions that put patient safety at risk.

Mickie Cathers

Pharmacists are an accessible point of contact for patients to discuss their health needs, and a study published September 13, 2023, in JAPhA suggested that pharmacists may be key health care professionals in the growing mental health crisis.

Ronald Levinson III, PharmD

Every day seems to bring with it another new use for ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI)–driven chatbot created by OpenAI.

Elizabeth Briand

Patients with diabetes have been using devices such as insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitors for many years, but automated insulin delivery (AID) technologies appear to be the next big tool in the progression of diabetes technology.

Olivia C. Welter, PharmD

Updates from FDA

Tori Metz, MD, frequently gets questions from her patients about using cannabis during pregnancy. For Metz and other clinicians, this has been a hard question to answer.

Loren Bonner

Almost one year ago, United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, released an advisory calling attention to the public health crisis of loneliness and isolation.

Loren Bonner

When taken for a long period of time and at a high dose, ADHD medication use was associated with an increased risk for some cardiovascular diseases, according to a research study published November 22, 2023, in JAMA Psychiatry.

Loren Bonner

Berberine supplements have joined the weightloss buzz with rumors that this herb can help patients slim down.

Mickie Cathers

Motion sickness can occur when riding in a car, train, airplane, boat, or even an amusement park ride. When your brain gets conflicting information from your eyes, inner ear, and body, the resulting confusion can cause dizziness, nausea, and vomiting.

Mary Warner

In the realm of CV conditions, treatment options that reduce hospitalizations are critical to providing care for patients with heart failure. CDC estimates that over 6 million Americans suffer from heart failure.

Ariel L. Clark, PharmD

For years, clinicians in hospital NICUs have been giving preterm infants probiotic products to prevent a life-threatening illness called necrotizing enterocolitis, which causes tissues in the lining of their bowels to become inflamed and die.

Loren Bonner

Levetiracetam has emerged as a favored choice for severe seizures due to its favorable profile, minimal adverse effects, few drug interactions, and lack of a necessity for therapeutic drug monitoring.

Corey Diamond, PharmD

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The traditional health care model requires the patient to seek care by coming to the health system (e.g., office, hospital, pharmacy, etc.). Health care providers often do not represent or have the lived experiences of the communities they serve, which can lead to overt and implicit bias within the health care system. These structural and political determinants of health further reinforce relationships that contribute to a problematic power dynamic that exacerbates long-standing health disparities primarily for communities who are underserved, notably Black, Indigenous, and people of color populations.

Jasmine D. Gonzalvo, PharmD, CDCES, FADCES

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