Patient Compliance

Increase in dispensing fees and flu shot fees sought, to cover COVID-19 related expenditures by pharmacies.

Acute care patients can voluntarily become part of the program if they're assessed by a doctor as a good candidate, have a caregiver at home and who would normally only require and brief hospital stay and live within a short drive of a hospital.

The pandemic has thrown a major new curveball at pharmacists when it comes to assessing patient symptoms during cold and flu season. Here are some useful questions to ask when screening patients with winter respiratory symptoms.

Woven into the impending challenges of COVID-19 is the ever-present threat of misinformation spread by social media and popular media outlets alike. Fortunately, biomedical research can reduce the risks associated with these viral hazards and take down the myths that pose a real danger to public health.

It found the mouthwash can eradicate the virus within 30 seconds of being exposed to it in a laboratory setting. The initial results come ahead of a clinical trial which is set to test whether over-the-counter mouthwash could reduce levels of COVID-19 in a patient's saliva.

For the past thousand years, our lifespans have been slowly and steadily increasing. With the exception of somewhat unscheduled plagues and wars, each generation has enjoyed their years on our planet a slight bit longer than the previous. That is, until now. Rather shockingly, new research indicates that segments of the population have begun, just recently, to experience a reversal of this thousand-year long trend. Moreover, while other wealthy nations around the world continue to see a steady march toward longer lives, mysteriously, the reversal in lifespan is, thus far, only evident in the United States.

It often seems like children catch one cold after another all winter long. In fact, they can get as many as eight to 10 colds each year before they turn two years old.