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Merck back on the hot seat with possible connection between Singulair and the risk of suicide.
Impaired Sense of Smell May Be A First Indicator of Parkinson’s Disease
Superbug MRSA Spreading
Disposing of Medications in an Environmentally Friendly Way
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My mouth just dropped open. It’s obvious to me that physicians do NOT read medication reconcilliation forms for home meds at all. The ones that do, kudos, but the ones that don’t make my job more interesting and at times really get to me.
Case-in-point: 50-something presenting to the hospital with lower GI bleed.
The doctor signed [...]
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Well I had a pingback in my email this morning from The Angriest Pharmacist. Somehow he views my post as “another enemy” and “cheap shot.”
Gosh, not hardly. My post, if you read it is what you would label as satirical sarcasm…. in other words, how deep does this rivalry go? Apparently deep at the [...]
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Yes, MySpace move over… there’s now an online site for patients with the same afflictions. Interesting!
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There’s nothing worse that grates under my skin as a pharmacist than to drive to a retail pharmacy and find a pharmacist digging in the trenches with a sourpuss expression and basically giving us ALL a bad name. We’re not ALL miserable.
Here’s a post about waking a retail pharmacist up only to find out she [...]
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U.S. health officials have identified a contaminant in batches of the blood thinner heparin associated with 19 deaths and are trying to determine how the chemical got into the drug.
The lots of heparin, whose key ingredient was imported from China, were recalled Feb. 28, and Food and Drug Administration officials said Wednesday that no new [...]
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Boehringer Ingelheim and FDA notified healthcare professionals that ongoing safety monitoring has identified a possible increased risk of stroke in patients who take Spiriva. This product contains tiotropium bromide and is used to treat bronchospasm associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Boehringer Ingelheim reported to the FDA that it has conducted [...]
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Ok, just want to post something I noticed here. Angry Pharmacist was here first, right? Why is there an Angriest Pharmacist? How about another name Angriest or Angry? Do the right thing in this case, I implore you to change your name. It seems like to me you lose a lot of cred hanging in [...]
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The FDA releases all kinds of warnings steering us clear of herbal remedies and buying medications over the internet scaring us with statements about drug purity, is the drug what it’s even advertised to be, and so forth… I think the FDA had a little mud in their face after this latest scare.
News Analysis
Tainted Drugs [...]
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One of the news programs at night had a documentary on a murder that happened where the perpetrator had mental issues and had taken a few doses of accutane prescribed by a doctor a few years earlier. He promptly discontinued the drug after experiencing headaches, etc… but spent the next few years on a message [...]
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