Internal Medicine Pharmacotherapy

The American Geriatrics Society recently published their Alternative Treatments to Selected Medications in reference to the most recent upd...

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) 2023 updated AGS Beers Criteria ® for potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use in older adul...

A 74 year old female patient presents to clinic describing dysuria and urinary frequency that started within the last few days.  She has ...

The pneumococcal vaccine was developed to reduce the disease burden of streptococcus pneumoniae, a gram-postive bacteria that has more tha...

The 2016 American Diabetes Association diabetes guidelines is a lengthy document outlining many aspects of diabetes care including eval...

A new guideline from the American College of Physicians for the management of acute and recurrent gout makes a few recommendations based o...

Metformin is the preferred initial pharmacologic therapy in every patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus who does not have a contraindicati...

The benefit of aspirin in reducing cardiovascular (CV) events or mortality in those patients with known CV disease (secondary prevention)...

On December 3, 2014, the FDA issued a new rule revising the current regulations pertaining to the pregnancy, labor and delivery, and nursi...

Let's start with a patient case.  An elderly patient is admitted to the hospital with complaints of intermittent shortness of breath a...

Let’s start with a patient case.   A 72 year old female presents to the hospital with fatigue, palpitations, and shortness of breath that...

Let’s start with a patient case.   An elderly patient is admitted through the emergency department with markedly worsening dyspnea and pu...