Pharmacy practices acts can hide some very interesting mandates

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

For some reason some old “brain memory cells” floated to the forefront of my mind.  I went to Butler University School of Pharmacy in Indianapolis .. so we “studied” the Indiana Pharmacy Practice Act.. That was 50 years ago… Recently I made this post Refusal to fill: is “I’m not comfortable” being replaced with “I […]

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Apixaban (Eliquis) linked to higher rates of stroke than warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

http://www.clinicaladvisor.com/neurology-information-center/stroke-risk-in-patients-taking-oral-anticoagulants/article/638712 Apixaban 2.5 mg twice daily was associated with higher rates of ischemic stroke or systemic embolism compared with warfarin in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, according to a study published in the BMJ. Rivaroxaban 15 mg once a day and dabigatran 110 mg twice a day showed evidence of lower thromboembolic rates. Torben Bjerregaard […]

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Your Pain, Your Rights: Dealing With Your Physician And Your Hospital

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Pharmaciststeve

www.rsds.org/your-pain-your-rights-dealing-with-your-physician-and-your-hospital/http:// By Mary Baluss, Esq. Although I had concentrated on legal issues relating to pain in terminal illness, I had never even heard of CRPS until I got a call from a young mother in  California with the crippling syndrome. She had gone from being an athletic, employed, confident woman to one who could not care for her two-year […]

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