Drugs

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care has issued its first guideline on smoking cessation for adults. Test your knowledge of the latest practices here!

Retrospective cohort study compares the incidence of 14 cancers among adults with obesity or overweight prescribed GLP-1 receptor agonists vs nonusers.

Between 30% and 50% of people with Type 2 diabetes develop some form of chronic kidney disease.

Obesity Canada experts provide 13 new and updated recommendations on the effectiveness, safety and appropriate use of pharmacotherapy in the management of obesity in adults.

Potentially inappropriate prescribing cascades should be considered when reviewing patients’ medications to promote medication safety in older adults.

Cardiology and pharmacist groups provide advice.

Pharmacists can improve outcomes for patients with breast cancer through prevention, management and education. 

The topic of switching antidepressants was featured in the Mental Health column of the June/July issue of Pharmacy Practice + Business. Based on this article, can you tell which of these statements is false?