Archive: 2025/11

Digital Therapeutics and Medication Interactions: What You Need to Know in 2025

Digital Therapeutics and Medication Interactions: What You Need to Know in 2025

Digital therapeutics are now FDA-cleared treatments used alongside medications for conditions like diabetes and anxiety. Learn how they improve adherence, interact with drugs, and who benefits most in 2025.

How to Reduce Pill Burden with Combination Medications for Seniors

How to Reduce Pill Burden with Combination Medications for Seniors

Combination medications reduce daily pill counts for seniors by merging multiple drugs into one tablet. This improves adherence, lowers blood pressure, cuts costs, and prevents dangerous errors. Learn how to ask your doctor about safer, simpler options.

Norovirus Outbreaks: How to Control Gastroenteritis and Keep Patients Hydrated

Norovirus Outbreaks: How to Control Gastroenteritis and Keep Patients Hydrated

Norovirus causes severe vomiting and diarrhea, spreads easily, and can be deadly for vulnerable people. Learn how to stop outbreaks with proper handwashing, cleaning, and hydration-backed by CDC guidelines.

Using Two Patient Identifiers in the Pharmacy for Safety: How It Prevents Medication Errors

Using Two Patient Identifiers in the Pharmacy for Safety: How It Prevents Medication Errors

Using two patient identifiers in the pharmacy prevents deadly medication errors. Learn how name and date of birth, combined with barcode scanning and EMPI systems, protect patients and meet federal safety standards.

Generic Absorption Rates: How They Must Match Brand Drugs to Be Safe and Effective

Generic Absorption Rates: How They Must Match Brand Drugs to Be Safe and Effective

Generic drugs must match brand-name absorption rates within strict FDA limits to be approved. Learn how the 80-125% bioequivalence rule ensures safety, why most generics are just as effective, and when to be cautious.

Prednisone Mood Swings: How to Cope and Get Support

Prednisone Mood Swings: How to Cope and Get Support

Prednisone can cause severe mood swings, anxiety, and depression in up to 47% of users. Learn why this happens, who’s most at risk, and proven strategies to cope-including sleep routines, exercise, journaling, and when to seek medical help.

Understanding Tetanus: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments

Understanding Tetanus: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments

Tetanus is a rare but deadly bacterial infection caused by Clostridium tetani, often entering through dirty wounds. Learn the real causes, early symptoms like lockjaw, how it's treated, and why staying up to date on your tetanus vaccine is the only reliable way to prevent it.

Pulmonary Hypertension: Symptoms, Right Heart Strain, and Modern Therapy

Pulmonary Hypertension: Symptoms, Right Heart Strain, and Modern Therapy

Pulmonary hypertension is a serious condition causing high blood pressure in the lungs and right heart strain. Learn the key symptoms, diagnostic methods, and modern treatments that are improving survival rates today.

Post-Transplant Infections: How to Prevent, Vaccinate, and Monitor After Kidney Transplant

Post-Transplant Infections: How to Prevent, Vaccinate, and Monitor After Kidney Transplant

Learn how to prevent, vaccinate against, and monitor for infections after a kidney transplant. Essential guidance on medicines, food safety, vaccines, and long-term monitoring to protect your new organ.

Spicy Foods and GI-Irritating Medications: How to Reduce Heartburn Risk

Spicy Foods and GI-Irritating Medications: How to Reduce Heartburn Risk

Learn how spicy foods and common medications like aspirin and pantoprazole trigger heartburn-and what actually works to reduce symptoms without giving up flavor or your prescriptions.