By: Nancy Simon, PharmD Candidate 2016 – Many of you may have seen Kim Kardashian West’s Instagram posts – most of which are ‘selfies,’ but recently, a particular post caught the attention of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this past August 2015. Kim posted a picture with Diclegis® (doxylamine succinate and pyridoxine hydrochloride), claiming…

By: Svetlana Akbasheva, Section Editor – Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating condition in which the lungs become thick and tough with scar tissue and progressively lose their ability to efficiently deliver oxygen to the blood.1 That the disease has no established cause can make diagnosis difficult. However, the 2011 ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT guidelines2 provide three…

By: Benedette Cuffari, B.S. of Toxicology Candidate 2016 – Affecting 10%-15% of the population in Western countries, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is most often categorized by altered bowel habits involving chronic or recurrent diarrhea or constipation.1 IBS patients with chronic diarrhea, sometimes referred to as IBS-D, exhibit abdominal pain and/or discomfort in addition to loose…

By: Holly Sokol, PharmD Candidate 2020 – Antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) can occur due to antibiotics changing the elements of the gut and thereby, increasing an organism’s inhabitance. Diarrhea is common in as many as 40% of critically ill patients. An even greater problem is Clostridium difficile (antibiotics-associated) becoming a leading cause of mortality in hospital-related…