Download or read book The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs written by James J. Rybacki and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With national health care in constant flux, more people are taking a greater interest in their own medical needs and learning about the treatments they are prescribed. This thoroughly updated guide profiles more than 250 widely prescribed drugs, in terms accessible to the layman. Each entry includes the drug's benefits and risks, principle uses, normal dosages, possible side effects, and special precautions. 16-page color insert.
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs written by James J. Rybacki and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 1989 written by James W. Long and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 2001 written by James J. Rybacki, PharmD. and published by Collins Reference. This book was released on 2001-01-09 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be an active partner in your health care! The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs provides more detailed and comprehensive profiles on the most important drugs currently in use than any other reference source available to the general public. The most trusted source of information for over twenty years, this fully revised and updated edition features cost-saving advice for consumers as well as tips on how pharmacists and physicians can control medical costs, making it a resource doctors, pharmacists, and other health-care professionals will also want to consult. Within each drug profile, you'll find: the benefits versus the risks of the drug highlighted in an easy-to-read, quick reference box how the drug is supplied, including brand names and available generics what the drug is used for -- including hard-to-find unlabeled uses how the drug works, and what to do if you miss a dose how safe it is to take, including the possible risks of taking it and interactions with herbal or prescription medicines possible effects of the drug on sexual function whether it's safe to use if you're pregnant or breastfeeding precautions to take if you're over sixty
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 1988 written by James W. Long and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs written by James W. Long and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1977 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 1995 written by James W. Long and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 1151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than two million copies sold in all editions, this widely praised resource is the most comprehensive and accessible guide to the major prescription drugs available today. Each entry includes the benefits vs. risks, principle uses, usual dosage, side effects, special precautions, and more. More than 30 chronic disorders are also detailed. 16-page full-color insert.
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs written by James W. Long and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 2006 written by James J. Rybacki, PharmD. and published by Collins Reference. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than two million copies sold in all editions in the US, here is the resource every family needs to make safe and informed decisions about their medicines. Fully updated and revised, the EGPD features the most detailed drug profiles and fuller coverage than any other source. For nearly 25 years, the EGPD has helped families negotiate the overwhelming and often contradictory swirl of information about their prescription medicines. Packed with critical information for your family's health, this is the one–stop source for the lowdown on hundreds of herbal/prescription combinations to be avoided, medicines that require vitamin and mineral supplements, how to alter doses for infants, children, pregnant women and the elderly and much more. Covering more than 2,000 brands organized into nearly 400 profiles, the new EGPD weighs the benefits and risks for each drug, and includes detailed information on interactions and sorts all possible effects on vision, lungs, and even sexuality into easy–to–read tables. An essential reference for the entire family, especially seniors. Includes cost saving advice for pharmacists and physicians. This new edition features cutting edge information on the newest drugs and the latest research, including new medicines for impotence, arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, pain management, osteoporosis, and more. The EGPD features longer and more detailed drug profiles than competing titles, with more than 40 points of information per profile and includes a 19 page insert illustrating 558 pills in full color. Dr. Rybacki's name recognition continues to grow. He is the host of The Pharmacist Minute, a syndicated radio feature heard in 141 countries.
Download or read book The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines written by WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines and published by WHO. This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for updating the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. The first part contains a progress report on the new procedures for updating the Model List and the development of the WHO Essential Medicines Library. It continues with a section on changes made in revising the Model List followed by a review of some sections such as hypertensive medicines and fast track procedures for deleting items. Annexes include the 13th version of the Model List and items on the list sorted according to their 5-level Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification codes.
Download or read book Pain Killer written by Barry Meier and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines OxyContin, the so-called miracle prescription drug that swept the nation but led to overdoes and addiction, providing a look at the multi-billion-dollar pain managment business, its excesses and its abuses.
Download or read book What the Drug Companies Won t Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn t Know written by Michael T. Murray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adverse reactions to over-the-counter and prescription drugs are currently estimated to kill more than 100,000 Americans a year (making this the fourth leading cause of death in the United States behind cancer, heart disease, and stroke). Drawing on more than twenty years of scientific research, Dr. Michael T. Murray reveals how the pharmaceutical treatments of the most common diseases that plague our society are often ineffective and result in serious, widespread side effects—and then explains how natural treatments can help us avoid them. What the Drug Companies Won’t Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn’t Know makes clear that we must radically reevaluate the way that we take care of ourselves, and Dr. Murray provides clear guidance on the steps necessary to help you lead a fitter, happier, and healthier life.
Download or read book Pocket Guide to Medications Used in Dermatology written by Andrew J. Scheman and published by Lippincott Raven. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its thoroughly updated Eighth Edition, this pocket guide is the most comprehensive quick reference available on prescription and over-the-counter dermatologic medications and widely used beauty products. The text lists the brand and generic names of medications used to treat specific skin problems and provides concise information on ingredients, preparation, dosing guidelines, any side effects and contraindications, and ingredients that can act as sensitizing agents. Coverage includes listings for every product’s available formats and sizing options and direct ordering information. This edition includes new drugs, fully updated ordering information, and a new section on select cosmetics for men.
Download or read book Powerful Medicines written by Jerry Avorn, M.D. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of patient care, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School, he shares his firsthand experience of the wide gap in our knowledge of the effectiveness of one medication as compared to another. In Powerful Medicines, he reminds us that every pill we take represents a delicate compromise between the promise of healing, the risk of side effects, and an increasingly daunting price. The stakes on each front grow higher every year as new drugs with impressive power, worrisome side effects, and troubling costs are introduced. This is a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at issues that affect everyone: our shortage of data comparing the worth of similar drugs for the same condition; alarming lapses in the detection of lethal side effects; the underuse of life-saving medications; lavish marketing campaigns that influence what doctors prescribe; and the resulting upward spiral of costs that places vital drugs beyond the reach of many Americans. In this engagingly written book, Dr. Avorn asks questions that will interest every consumer: How can a product judged safe by the Food and Drug Administration turn out to have unexpectedly lethal side effects? Why has the nation’s drug bill been growing at nearly 20 percent per year? How can physicians and patients pick the best medication in its class? How do doctors actually make their prescribing decisions, and why do those decisions sometimes go wrong? Why do so many Americans suffer preventable illnesses and deaths that proper drug use could have averted? How can the nation gain control over its escalating drug budget without resorting to rationing or draconian governmental controls? Using clinical case histories taken from his own work as a practitioner, researcher, and advocate, Dr. Avorn demonstrates the impressive power of the well-conceived prescription as well as the debacles that can result when medications are misused. He describes an innovative program that employs the pharmaceutical industry’s own marketing techniques to reduce use of some of the most overprescribed and overpriced products. Powerful Medicines offers timely and practical advice on how the nation can improve its drug-approval process, and how patients can work with doctors to make sure their prescriptions are safe, effective, and as affordable as possible. This is a passionate and provocative call for action as well as a compelling work of clear-headed science.
Download or read book The Stigma of Addiction written by Jonathan D. Avery and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the stigma of addiction and discusses ways to improve negative attitudes for better health outcomes. Written by experts in the field of addiction, the text takes a reader-friendly approach to the essentials of addiction stigma across settings and demographics. The authors reveal the challenges patients face in the spaces that should be the safest, including the home, the workplace, the justice system, and even the clinical community. The text aims to deliver tools to professionals who work with individuals with substance use disorders and lay persons seeking to combat stigma and promote recovery. The Stigma of Addiction is an excellent resource for psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, students across specialties, researchers, public health officials, and individuals with substance use disorders and their families.
Download or read book Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-06-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More than 2 million people in the United States are estimated to have OUD, which is caused by prolonged use of prescription opioids, heroin, or other illicit opioids. OUD is a life-threatening condition associated with a 20-fold greater risk of early death due to overdose, infectious diseases, trauma, and suicide. Mortality related to OUD continues to escalate as this public health crisis gathers momentum across the country, with opioid overdoses killing more than 47,000 people in 2017 in the United States. Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis, in large part because tools that already existâ€"like evidence-based medicationsâ€"are not being deployed to maximum impact. To support the dissemination of accurate patient-focused information about treatments for addiction, and to help provide scientific solutions to the current opioid crisis, this report studies the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for OUD. It examines available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.
