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The Challenges of Young Adult Asthma
With asthma, sometimes the simple act of breathing can be a real challenge. For young adults with asthma, the transition from living with parents to moving out on their own may present another challenge: maintaining access to asthma care.
A Spicy Dare Not Worth Taking
Truth or dare is an age-old game that will never wear out in childhood and adolescence. Often, the game involves harmless fun. But some dares should never be taken.
Doc, Do You Wear Gloves?
Doctors already wash their hands regularly to prevent the spread of infections. Often, they wear gloves as well. But it may be even better if they wore gloves more often.
Discussing Tea Time with Prenatal Docs?
Pregnant women have so many things to consider and discuss with their doctors as they prepare for birth, including the use of supplements or natural remedies. But is this subject getting enough discussion time between patients and physicians?
FDA Announces Recall by Balanced Solutions Compounding Pharmacy
Balanced Solutions Compounding Pharmacy (Balanced Solutions), a division of Axium Healthcare Pharmacy, Inc., of Lake Mary, Fla., is voluntarily recalling all lots of its sterile non-expired drug products due to a lack of sterility assurance and concerns with product quality controls.
FDA Issues Alert for ApotheCure, Inc. and NuVision Pharmacy
The US Food and Drug Administration is alerting healthcare providers, hospital supply managers, and pharmacists that sterile drug products made by ApotheCure, Inc. and sterile lyophilized (freeze-dried powder) drug products made by NuVision Pharmacy were produced under conditions that could create a high potential for contamination.
These products should not be administered to patients.
Sterile drug products that are contaminated place patients at risk of serious infection. The FDA advises healthcare providers and hospital staff to immediately check their medical supplies and quarant...
Take a Walk on the Safe Side
One of the first things we learn as children is to look both ways before crossing the street. No matter your age, this childhood lesson can mean the difference between life and death.
Quality Care Isn’t Always a Picnic
Being satisfied with surgical care and receiving quality surgical care aren't the same thing. Being unsatisfied with surgical care doesn’t necessarily mean the surgical staff flubbed the job.
Sidelined from Sports Specialization
Competition among young athletes can be fierce—so fierce, in fact, that some athletes may play their sport more than they can handle. And that intense focus on one sport may put these growing athletes at risk of serious injury.
FDA approves abuse-deterrent labeling for OxyContin
The US Food and Drug Administration today approved updated labeling for Purdue Pharma L.P.’s reformulated OxyContin (oxycodone hydrochloride controlled-release) tablets. The new labeling indicates that the product has physical and chemical properties that are expected to make abuse via injection difficult and to reduce abuse via the intranasal route (snorting).
Additionally, because original OxyContin provides the same therapeutic benefits as reformulated OxyContin, but poses an increased potential for certain types of abuse, the FDA has determined that the benefits of original OxyCont...