Drugs

With pharmacists also able to prescribe, patients have more access to birth control—but high demand is also leading to long waits for procedures like IUD insertion.

Study shows that adding a cyclo-oxygenase (COX) inhibitor provides a synergistic contraceptive effect to levonorgestrel administered for emergency contraception. 

Vulnerability to drug-induced nutritional deficiencies is greatest in older adults, patients taking multiple medications and those with chronic illness, multiple co-morbidities, or marginal or inadequate nutrition.

Early studies of zuranolone suggest PPD symptom improvement can be observed as early as three days after starting the treatment. This is an unusually rapid response to an antidepressant medication, which usually take effect over several weeks.

The Food and Drug Administration decision opens the newest shots from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to most Americans even if they’ve never had a coronavirus vaccination.

The new guidance, led by the BC Centre for Disease Control, aims to standardize take-home naloxone kits that are distributed through various sites, including pharmacies, community groups and emergency departments, to anyone who could respond to an overdose.

All the following statements about use of desmopressin for monosymptomatic enuresis (bedwetting without any daytime lower urinary tract symptoms) in children are true, EXCEPT for . . .

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada has found key similarities in all cases that led to the overdoses.