Less than 10% of the trospium dose is absorbed following oral administration; peak plasma concentrations (Cmax) are achieved five to six hours after a single dose. Exposure causes a decrease in the Cmax and an area-under-the-curve (AUC) concentration of up to 59% and 33%, respectively, for evening doses and morning doses. Because high-fat meals decrease [...]
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5 May 2010INTRODUCTION
Overactive bladder (OAB) is a symptom syndrome that refers to the layered, smooth muscle that surrounds the bladder, the detrusor muscle. This muscle contracts spastically, sometimes without a known cause, resulting in sustained, high bladder pressure and the urgent need to urinate. People with OAB often experience urgency at inconvenient and unpredictable times. This urgency [...]
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3 May 2010I would like to ask your readers to take advantage of this opportunity to raise awareness of an often silent, frequently underestimated disease state affecting our patient populations: deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
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2 May 2010As a response to this mounting public health crisis, more than 60 organizations assembled in Washington in February 2003 to discuss the urgent need to make DVT a top public health priority. At this meeting, co-hosted by the APHA and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), participants agreed to establish a coalition of organizations committed [...]
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1 May 2010Many of the health plans that will be offering Medicare outpatient drug benefits, which are scheduled to begin on January 1, 2006, will decide to use a formulary, in order to control costs and for clinical common sense. Although these “Part D” drug plans will have flexibility in developing their own formularies, they will have [...]
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30 Apr 2010Do health care providers have a moral and ethical obligation to disclose medical errors honestly and promptly to involved patients and their families?
Thundermist began to implement the satellite distribution system by seeking the state’s approval for remote dispensing of pharmaceuticals. One major challenge was the licensure of the remote dispensing system through the Department of Health’s Board of Pharmacy. The Board members were concerned about the newness of the technology and the security of the system, wondering [...]
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