Internal Medicine Pharmacotherapy

Bleeding risk with anticoagulant and antiplatelet medications is something that we struggle with on a regular basis.   Should we fully anti...

Reports developed in the media last month identifying suspected cases of ‘krokodil’ use in Utah, Arizona, and Illinois.  While the drug’s p...

Since 2012, the FDA has made two statements regarding the safety of azithromycin related to cardiovascular risk.  These warnings were large...

This week’s pharmacy pearl describes a recent alert from the FDA that you might have heard about regarding fluoroquinolones.   Fluoroquin...

This week, the RE-ALIGN study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, examining the use of dabigatran in patients undergoing ...

Let’s start with a patient case.   A 55 year old female patient is seen in clinic that has recently been diagnosed with COPD.  After suffer...