Your genes affect how your body processes medications. Learn how pharmacogenomics uses DNA testing to prevent bad drug reactions, improve mental health treatment, and personalize dosing for safer care.
CBD oil can dangerously increase levels of prescription medications by blocking liver enzymes that break them down. This can lead to extreme sedation, bleeding, or overdose. Learn which drugs are at risk and how to stay safe.
First generics and authorized generics both lower drug prices - but timing matters. When brand companies launch their own generics during the first generic's exclusivity window, they undercut savings and reshape the market.
Learn how to properly use inhalers, identify asthma triggers, and follow evidence-based long-term management strategies to achieve full asthma control with modern ICS-based treatments.
Learn how to properly document provider advice about medications to avoid errors, improve care, and protect your health. Includes what to write, how to store it, and why it matters.
Anticoagulants prevent dangerous clots but carry a risk of serious bleeding. Learn how to reduce hemorrhage risk with DOACs, warfarin, and other blood thinners through practical prevention strategies, reversal agents, and patient safety tips.
Taking tizanidine and ciprofloxacin together can cause dangerously low blood pressure and extreme drowsiness. Learn why this interaction happens, who's at risk, and what safer alternatives exist.
Autoimmune uveitis causes dangerous eye inflammation that can lead to vision loss. Steroid-sparing therapies like Humira and methotrexate help control inflammation without the long-term risks of steroids. Learn how these treatments work and who needs them.
Learn how dose-related and non-dose-related side effects differ in pharmacology - why some are predictable and others aren't, how to recognize them, and what to do if you experience them.