Ask your pharmacist for a drug interaction review each time you start a new medication or a new type of birth control. Certain medications may interfere with the absorption of your birth control pills.This is not all the information you need to know about birth control for safe and effective...
Medication adherence and persistence as the cornerstone of effective antihypertensive therapy. Am J Hypertens 2006; 19: 1190–1196. Article Google Scholar Egan BM, Lackland DT, Cutler NE . Awareness, knowledge, and attitudes of older Americans about high blood pressure: implications for health care...
Self said the main thing that necessitated him being at the team hotel on game days instead of on the bench was the risk of elevated blood pressure, which he monitored constantly throughout the month of March, both in and out of the hospital. “Even though you g...
I was put on seizure medication by the ENT. I was told I had a crack in my tooth from the root canal specialist (of course the crack is too fine for even them to see yet). I finally went to my Uncle who is a dentist. He told me that many women my size/age/eagerness to ...
When it is clear the body will not miscarry, an obstetrician has several options for ending the pregnancy. If the pregnancy is extremely early, prior to 7-8 weeks, medication like misoprostol can cause the body to expel the remaining tissue in the uterus. This is non-invasive, and the ...
I phone people for medication reviews and I’ve had people not answer the phone who have then called the surgery to say they had no missed calls, my colleagues have too. I always phone people at least twice, more if time allows. I would never not call a patient but pre...
No medication (not even a nonprescription drug) should be taken except under medical supervision, since it could pass from the mother through the placenta to the developing baby. Some drugs, called teratogens, have been proven harmful to a fetus, but no drug should be considered completely ...
Outcome Our outcome for this review is missed nursing care. We considered papers which used other synonyms of missed nursing care, for example, omission of care, unmet nurs- ing needs and implicit rationing of nursing care. We excluded studies which reported on medication errors among nurses as...
The general measures for the care of patients with HF also include serial follow-up to evaluate clinical status, support for HF including the proper use of medication, evaluation of the response to therapy, and assessment of the potential need for changes in management. Visits should include asse...
Diarrhea turned out to be a side effect of the medication she was using (pancreatin). Colonoscopy and MRCP had been carried out according to regular procedures for adults with normal intelligence. The patient had not been able to process the information provided before and during these invasive ...