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...claims patient package inserts [May 19] are perfect, but they certainly are better than ignorance. As a community pharmacist for 15 years, I know that any factual information is the patient's first line of defense...
...summer approaches, gas prices are changing vacation habits. The American Automobile Association says requests for travel planning are off 12.9% this year. "Gas prices make driving to Florida impossible," says Paul Polsky, a pharmacist in Troy, Mich. "We'll spend vacation in the state...
Much like the unsuspecting Alice, today's patients frequently feel they are falling into a drug Wonderland. All too often the powerful pills and potions prescribed by doctors come with nothing more than the pharmacist's typed label bearing the drug's name and the unedifying command: "Take as directed." Even if the physician has provided added information in his office, it may be woefully inadequate. Given hurriedly, short on detail, with possible harmful consequences glossed over or even omitted, the instructions frequently seem to be following the hoary 16th century precept of England's Royal...
...legal repercussions should a drug user develop a rare side effect unmentioned in a PPI. Though the FDA figures that the cost of preparing, storing and distributing leaflets would add only an average of 6¼? to each prescription, professional groups reckon the extra tab at 22? to 35?. Pharmacists are afraid that the leaflets will provoke a rash of time-consuming questions from customers. Some say that they may be put in the uncomfortable position of seeming to second-guess the doctors. Gripes a Virginia pharmacist: "If the medical profession were doing its job, there wouldn...
Partly in response to the furor, the FDA now plans to require inserts for only ten drugs, one of them probably the popular tranquilizer Valium. FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan, a pharmacist, supports this truth-in-prescription experiment, but acknowledges that PPIs may have surprising side effects. He cites the case of a friend's wife who underwent a hysterectomy, or removal of the uterus. Later she was given a prescription for estrogen, for which the FDA has required PPIs since 1977. After reading the leaflet, she immediately wanted to stop taking the hormone. Her reason: she was afraid...