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Today's Headlines
FDA has approved generic buprenorphine hydrochloride (HCl) and naloxone HCl dihydrate sublingual tablets (Amneal Pharmaceuticals), the first generic versions of Suboxone (Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare (UK)) sublingual tablets for maintenance treatment of opioid drug dependence. » Full article
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FDA is adding its strongest warning to labels of codeine-containing products advising against their use for pain relief in children after surgery to remove tonsils or adenoids. The agency asks healthcare professionals to use alternate pain relievers instead. » Full article
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The age-old wisdom that vitamin C can help reduce the incidence of colds recently had another set back in a study from Finland, published in Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews at the end of January 2013. » Full article
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High intakes of calcium in women are associated with higher death rates from all causes and from cardiovascular disease, but not from stroke. This is the conclusion of a prospective longitudinal cohort study conducted by researchers in Sweden and published in the British Medical Journal. » Full article
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CONTINUING EDUCATION
Welcome to the sixth activity in our CPE series: Medication Therapy Management (MTM) in Patients with Diabetes, which has been designed for pharmacists who take care of patients with diabetes. You can earn up to 14 credits from September 2012-March 2013 with 7 monthly knowledge-based activities. The February activity covers psychosocial considerations in the management of diabetes.
To read and print the article with TEST QUESTIONS, click here. To proceed to the online exams and earn up to 2 CPE credits, click here to login.
Coming soon - All users will be required to provide their NABP e-Profile ID when logging into the Drug Topics' FREE CPE. This new process requires all pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to provide their NABP e-Profile ID prior to accessing the system. If you have not done so, you can obtain your NABP e-Profile ID now at www.MyCPEmonitor.net This profile will enable you to have one login for all the NABP programs and services you will need throughout your career.
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EDITOR'S PICK
According to the American Diabetes Association, 18.8 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with diabetes, and another 7 million are thought to have the disease but have not yet been diagnosed. An additional 79 million Americans have prediabetes, which is a condition that indicates that the patient has a high risk for developing diabetes. The majority of patients with diabetes are 20 years old or older, of whom about 13 million are men and 12.6 million are women. In 2010, about 1.9 million people aged 20 years or older were newly diagnosed with diabetes.
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