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- 4/30/2010
Pharma waste management: Success stories
- 4/30/2010
2010 Diabetes Update: Pediatric diabetes
Management, monitoring and special considerations in children and adolescents. - 4/30/2010
Trends & insights: Taking stock of inventory management
Pharmacists are looking to technicians to assume increasing responsibility for inventory management; when asked in a previous Trends & Insights survey how they’d like to see the role of the technician expand, almost nine out of 10 (88%) cited inventory management. For techs who take on this task, it can be interesting, challenging and rewarding. - 4/30/2010
2010 Diabetes Update: Staying on target
New trends in prevention, practice tools, cancer risk and therapies - 4/30/2010
Tech has a whale of a time preparing specialty compounds
Capsules for an ailing whale. Anaesthetics for dental patients. Transdermals for cats. These are just a few examples of the compounds that head pharmacy technician Anne Marie Taddeo has prepared in tandem with pharmacist Jennifer Schoenhals at Falls Pharmacy in Niagara Falls, Ont. A veteran employee of the 55-year-old, family-owned pharmacy—she started out as a cashier in 1974—Taddeo got involved in specialty compounding when Schoenhals took over the business from her parents. Taddeo and Schoenhals started by taking primary training at the Professional Compounding Centers of America (PCCA) in Houston. - 4/30/2010
Defibrillators: Shock to the system
What pharmacists need to know about automated external defibrillators. - 4/30/2010
My future, decided for me
- 4/30/2010
Practice Issues: How does aripiprazole differ from other atypical antipsychotic drugs?
Q. How does aripiprazole differ from other atypical antipsychotic drugs? Which patients will be good candidates for the drug and what will be its primary clinical uses? A. The individual selectivity and differing affinities of atypical antipsychotics for specific receptor subtypes can result in significant variations in patient response. - 4/30/2010
Editorial: A disease for all ages