| Pharmacotherapy Newsletter |
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Explains how or why a drug is used in a particular patient care scenario or disease state.
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Current Issue: Why can ezetimibe can be dosed only once a day for its lipid lowering efficacy?
Upcoming Issue: How does eplerenone cause less gynecomastia than spironolactone?
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| | Drug Interactions Newsletter |
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Makes sense of clinically relevant drug interactions even beyond the CYP450 and how they occur.
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Current Issue: Is there any evidence that determine the impact histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RA) have on oral iron replacement therapy?
Upcoming Issue: What is the only NNRTI used in the treatment of HIV infection known to be an inhibitor of CYP3A4?
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| | Pharmacogenetics Newsletter |
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Explains how some drugs are handled throughout the body differently between patients because of genetic influence and the clinical relevance.
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Current Issue: Why should patients of Asian descent receive HLA genetic testing before being prescribed carbamazepine?
Upcoming Issue: What common genetic polymorphisms to VKORC1 are known to influence warfarin (Coumadin; Jantoven)?
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| | Natural Medicines Newsletter |
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Makes sense of how natural medicines work to treat a condition, adverse event or drug interaction using available scientific evidence.
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Current Issue: Which Vietnamese herbs or natural medicines are known to be inhibitors of xanthine oxidase and possibly used for gout?
Upcoming Issue: Why should organ transplant patients on cyclosporine not take St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)?
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