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Accountable Care Organizations

By: Stephanie Chiu and Elissa Tam, PharmD Candidates c/o 2015 -- According to the Dartmouth Atlas project, health care spending…

12 years ago

Anticoagulation in Pregnant Women: Which Medications are Safe?

By: Diana Gritsenko, PharmD Candidate 2015 - Multiple complications can arise during pregnancy. While venous thromboembolism (VTE) has a prevalence…

12 years ago

FDA-Approved Afrezza: An Inhaled Alternative to Injectable Insulin?

By: Elissa Tam, PharmD Candidate c/o 2015 - Patients with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes who cannot control their…

12 years ago

Celiac Disease: Seeking Proper Treatment

By: Sang Hyo Kim, Staff Editor - The Mayo Clinic reported in the American Journal of Gastroenterology that 1.8 million…

12 years ago

Reservoir of Migraine Therapies Includes Analgesics, AEDs, and now Monoclonal Antibodies

By Davidta Brown, Senior Staff Editor - The pain, nausea, and light or sound sensitivity that comprise a migraine attack…

12 years ago

Pediatric Hypertension

By: Anthony Botte and Tyler Valente, PharmD Candidates c/o 2016 - Diseases which are prevalent within the pediatric population require…

12 years ago

The Role of Pharmacists Expanding into the Emergency Room

By: Sherin Pathickal, PharmD Candidate c/o 2016 - In 2006, the Institute of Medicine reported that over 1.5 million people…

12 years ago

New Strides in Lupus Treatment

By: Daniel Mathan, PharmD Candidate c/o 2016, Anita Kachappilly, PharmD Candidate c/o 2016, & Amrita Singh, PharmD Candidate c/o 2015 -…

12 years ago

Dietary Supplements and Their Potential Dangers

By: Fatema Elias, Staff Writer - With the New Year and everyone committing to their New Year resolutions, more and…

12 years ago

Psychiatric Prescriptions in the Fight Against Juvenile Diabetes

By: Davidta Brown, Senior Staff Editor - In August 2013, the results of a yearlong safety study were published in…

12 years ago

The Blunt Truth

By: Katharine Cimmino, Editor-in-Chief - Marijuana, also known as “grass,” “pot,” “joint,” “weed,” “reefer,” “hashish,” and “Mary Jane,” is a…

12 years ago

Moving Towards Provider Status: An Interview with Sandra Leal

By: Hayeon Na, Co-Copy Editor and Sang Hyo Kim, Staff Editor - In Volume 1 Issue1 of the Rho Chi…

13 years ago

Accepting the Mantle: The 2013 White Coat Ceremony

By: Davidta Brown - Every year in late October, the third year pharmacy students at the College of Pharmacy and…

13 years ago

New Treatment for a Deficiency in Iron-Supplement Therapies

By: Davidta Brown, Staff Editor - For the estimated 7.5 million individuals in the United States living with iron deficiency…

13 years ago

Canagliflozin (Invokana®): New Type 2 Diabetes Drug

By: Sang Hyo Kim, Staff Editor - On March 29th 2013, the U.S Food and Drug Administration approved canagliflozin (Invokana®),…

13 years ago

Olmesartan Medoxomil Label Revision

By: David Ong, PharmD Candidate c/o 2014 - Manipulating the renin-angiotensin system is one of the many ways drugs are…

13 years ago

Two New Agents for the Treatment of Obesity

By: Nathan Trustman, PharmD Candidate c/o 2013, AMSCOP at LIU - Obesity is defined as having a body mass index…

13 years ago

Understanding Opioid Overdose

By: Aleena Cherian, PharmD Candidate c/o 2014 - Although opioid analgesics are among the most effective drugs to treat pain,…

13 years ago

Solving the HCV Enigma: Current and Future Drug Therapy for Hepatitis C

By: Tamara Yunusova, Senior Staff Editor - Approximately 3.2 million Americans have chronic hepatitis C infection.1 While acute cases are…

13 years ago

New FDA Approval: Fycompa® to Treat Seizures

By: Bhavini Shah, PharmD Candidate c/o 2013  - Fycompa® (perampanel) has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval…

13 years ago

Liraglutide (Victoza®) for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

By:  Miriam Maltz, PharmD Candidate c/o 2013, AMSCOP, Long Island University - Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a metabolic…

13 years ago

NYS ACCP – Fall Clinical Meeting 2012

By: James Schurr, Stephen Argiro, & Michael Cronin, PharmD Candidates c/o 2014 - This October, we had the privilege of…

14 years ago

Mechanisms of NSAID Induced Functional Renal Toxicity

By: James W.  Schurr & Stephen Argiro, PharmD Candidates c/o 2014 - Patients frequently utilize non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for…

14 years ago

Antiplatelet Use Following Acute Coronary Syndromes

By: Addolorata Ciccone, Co-Copy Editor - Acute Coronary Syndromes Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a myocardial ischemia caused by obstruction…

14 years ago

Student Spotlight: Felipe Camacho

By Nandini Puranprashad, Pharm D. Candidate c/o 2013 - Felipe Camacho is a 6th year student at the University of…

14 years ago

Nutrition Support Pharmacy Practice

By: James W. Schurr, PharmD Candidate c/o 2014 - Nutrition Support Pharmacy is a specialized practice pertaining to the needs…

14 years ago

Dr. Oz and Raspberry Ketones

By: Lila Ahmed, Pharm.D. Candidate c/o 2013 - Whether you wish to admit it or not, all of us have…

14 years ago

Eight Ways to Kick the Habit

By: Nagma Gargi, Pharm.D. Candidate c/o 2013 - Smoking cessation programs are extremely important in our society as increasing evidence…

14 years ago

The Diagnosis and Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents

By: Marie Huang - The amphitheater at Nassau University Medical Center fills up slowly as Dr. Alan Jay Cohen, a…

14 years ago

Jentadueto Approved by FDA for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

By: Ebey P. Soman - The FDA recently approved a combination tablet of linagliptin with metformin hydrochloride (Jentadueto®) for the…

14 years ago

CHF, a Rare but Serious Presentation of Graves’ disease

By: James Schurr, Pharm.D. Candidate c/o 2014 - Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder that results in a state of…

14 years ago

Bydureon®: A Weekly Injection for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

By: Mohamed Dungersi - On January 27, the FDA approved Bydureon® (exenatide extended-release) for use in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus…

14 years ago

New Oral Direct Thrombin Inhibitors and Factor Xa Anticoagulants

By: Neal Shah - Anticlotting agents are staples in the prevention and treatment of thrombotic disorders, such as deep vein…

14 years ago

Clevidipine in the Management of Hypertensive Emergency

By: Neal Shah - Defined by the Joint National Committee, hypertension (HTN) is a systolic blood pressure (SBP) greater than…

14 years ago

Greater Bone Loss in Post-Menopausal Women with HIV

By: Bibin Thomas, Long Island University, PharmD Candidate - Earlier in 2011, it was reported that that young and middle-aged…

14 years ago

Differences Between Antagonists and Inverse Agonists

By: Neal Shah - There are two major classifications of drug-receptor activity: agonism and antagonism. Agonism occurs when a molecule…

15 years ago