Tag Archives for pharmacy
Hey, Get Back and Take Your Meds!
Add “predictive initiatives” to the newest lingo in the crosshairs of medicine and long term care. Pharmacy-benefit manager Express Scripts Inc. is launching an innovative program that reaches out to patients they anticipate will fail to take their medications. That’s … Continue reading
Tags: benefit managers, Express Scripts Inc., Health Care, insurers, Long Term Care, medication, medicine, PBM's, pharmacy, predictive initiatives
Hypertension Bad for the Brain?
~ by Cher Giovani The study wasn’t about dementia: it was about blood pressure. A British group researching hypertension in the elderly followed a group of participants aged 80 and over to record the effects of drug therapy treatment for … Continue reading
Tags: Alzheimers/Dementia, blood pressure, calcium channel, dementia, elderly, heart disease, heart failure, hypertension, medicine, pharmacy, seniors, stroke, vascular dementia
When Drugs Just Make Things Worse
~ by Jeff Noley There are some drugs with side effects that are worse than what they treat. Or at the very least, are pretty rotten compared to the alternatives. Avandia is one example of a drug you might want … Continue reading
Tags: Augmentin, Avandia, Celebrex, diabetes, doxycycline, drugs, Ketek, Medical News, medicine, pharmacy, Physicians' Desk Reference, pneumonia, prescription, Zithromax
