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The Specialty Pharmacy: A One-to-One Personalized Approach
Maybe you’ve noticed: medications are getting more complicated, more personalized, and more expensive.
Look at some of the recent drugs approved for cancer, hepatitis C virus,...
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Clearing Up the Confusion: Drug Names and Their Salts
You’ve given the pharmacist a prescription for your new diabetes medication called metformin hydrochloride, but when you receive your bottle and look it up on...
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Diabetes Symptoms & Complications
Symptoms
People with type 1 or type 2 diabetes may have a range of symptoms. These symptoms might include:
Frequent urination (polyuria) -- often at night...
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Diabetes Risk Factors & Prevention
Risk Factors
Risk factors are characteristics that can predispose you to developing a condition or disease. Just because you have one or more risk factors does...
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Childhood Obesity: Is a U.S. Epidemic Improving?
Overweight or obese children in America
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity affects 17 percent of all children and adolescents in...
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Pill Splitting – A Safe Way to Save Healthcare...
Why split tablets?
Use of medications for chronic illnesses, such as hypertension, diabetes, or high cholesterol - all common U.S. conditions - can often run into...
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Top 15 on the Health Insurance
1. What is a Health Insurance Exchange?
You have probably heard by now that there is a big transformation coming to U.S. health insurance. Through changes...
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