Jeannette Y Wick, RPh, MBA, FASCP

In a recent study published in Eye & Contact Lens, researchers studied the efficacy of topical insulin compared to artificial tears.

A recent review addresses the dual role pharmacies play as health care and prescription medication providers and beverage and food retailers.

Offering retreatment and counseling at every step increases the abstinence levels in patients who take multiple attempts to quit smoking,

Hormone therapy is still the most effective means of treating either vasomotor symptoms or the genito-urinary syndrome of menopause.

A pair of studies indicate that patients with Parkinson Disease are at high risk for medication misadventure.

When it comes to diabetes, that lack of a shared language can be a tremendous barrier to care.

A recent publication describes a structured approach to chronic cough in children.

For People Living with HIV, medication adherence is essential to prevent viral resistance, and disease progression, and motivational interviewing has gained a good reputation for increasing adherence.

Since 2009, statisticians have seen an alarming increases in the number of neurosyphilis cases.

Researchers found that educating patients about immunizations likely influences immunization rates positively—that is, increase community demand—among the elderly.

Patients on atypical antipsychotics have 3 to 5 times greater risk of type 2 diabetes than others. This is an association that clinicians have noted since the first of the atypicals was FDA approved, and patients struggle when diabetes develops.

New research suggests video games can improve chronic health conditions.

Naturally produced melatonin tends to decrease with advancing age, so supplementation is a potential intervention for metabolic syndrome.

Herpes zoster ophthalmicus, like shingles without ophthalmic manifestations, is terribly painful. It can affect any layer of the cornea, but the author notes that once the involvement is epithelial or stromal keratitis develops, risk of permanent vision loss increases.

Studies suggest vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher risk of pain, so shouldn’t vitamin D supplementation decrease pain?

Identifying asthma phenotypes based on noninvasive markers could help clinicians better tailor therapy for people with asthma.

Half of people who have diabetes eventually develop diabetic peripheral neuropathy, and the warning signs are sensory symptoms that start in the distant periphery and progressing in a characteristic 'glove and stocking' way.

Vitamin D deficiency seems to be fairly common, but when taken in doses that exceed what the patient needs, it can be toxic.

Researchers from Sapienza Universita di Roma in Rome, Italy have published a review article in the journal Aging Male that implicates folic acid as a contributing factor in erectile dysfunction.

Researchers from a number of public health agencies in France took on the task of identifying phenotypes in infants. The results of their study indicate that early respiratory symptoms predict asthma at 1 year.

The 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections demonstrated how far our understanding of HIV has come in the last 30 years, and revealed some cutting-edge science.

Obstetricians and general practitioners most often field questions from women who have asthma, as this condition is more common than most other chronic conditions in young people.

In an effort to understand the relationship between the problems youth report, and their ultimate adherence, investigators have conducted, and published a study describing their findings.

Weather can exacerbate asthma, and one specific trigger is thunderstorm activity.

Since the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended that postmenopausal women refrain from taking supplemental calcium and vitamin D, many patients and healthcare professionals have been confused.

Increasingly, healthcare providers, and policy makers are looking at effective interventions in school age children with asthma.

People living with HIV are at elevated risk for hyponatremia, a risk that increases if they are hospitalized. It hyponatremia is severe, morbidity, and mortality risk escalates.

A new study looks at patient perception of adverse effects with asthma, and recommends that pharmacists change their emphasis when counseling about potential adverse effects to include prevention strategies.

Researchers continue to look for factors that may influence osteoarthritis’ development. On such area of research is the role of fat soluble vitamins.

Gout, an inflammatory arthritis, is very common and increasing in prevalence with men more likely to develop it than women.