Drugs

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?

Researchers found prescriptions for all types of birth control jumped significantly after the province began covering the cost of contraception in April 2023, especially for IUDs.

A clinical trial investigating Ambroxol suggests it could help reduce cognitive impairment symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease.

In Britain, eight healthy babies have been born with the help of a process that uses DNA from three individuals to allow mothers to avoid passing devastating rare diseases to their children.