The Women's Pharmacy: An Essential Guide to What Women Should Know About Prescription DrugsRandom House Publishing Group, 10 dic 2008 - 480 páginas • Easy-to-use A-Z format — features profiles of 300 drugs • Vital information on side effects and drug interactions • Cutting-edge research on the latest drug therapies ... and much more Know the facts about the drugs you take. With two thirds of the more than 1.6 billion prescriptions a year written for women, there’s an urgent need for a clear, concise resource to help sort through the confusing — and often contradictory — bombardment of information and advertising for the drugs we take. This authoritative guide provides an essential list of the drugs used exclusively by women — fertility drugs, contraceptives, breast cancer drugs, estrogens — plus drugs for cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, depression, high cholesterol, diabetes, and other health problems that affect women in greater numbers than men. It features: • 200 prescription drug profiles covering more than 300 drugs • Each drug’s brand name, generic name, classification, dosage, side effects, drug and food/alcohol interactions, and pregnancy/nursing risks • New research on which drugs affect women differently than men • Facts even your doctor may not know • Questions to ask the pharmacist — before you take the drug • Cautions for ordering drugs over the Internet • Special warnings for seniors • A guide to nonprescription and over-the-counter medications Plus — a special women’s resource directory for health-related issues and Web site addresses |
Índice
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You and Your Pharmacist | 394 |
Keeping Track | 400 |
Appendix 1 | 420 |
Appendix 2 | 432 |
Prescription DrugsUnited States 1998 | 439 |
About the Authors | 472 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The Women's Pharmacy: An Essential Guide to What Women Should Know about ... Julie Catalano No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2000 |
Términos y frases comunes
acetaminophen allergies antibiotics anticoagulants anticoagulants blood thinners anticonvulsants antidepressants antidiabetics antihistamines antihypertensives Availability and Dosage Benzodiazepine Bottle-feed your baby Brand Name breast milk carbamazepine cimetidine cluding Comments corticosteroids diabetes diarrhea dietary supplements digoxin disorder diuretics dizziness doctor may prescribe doctor the benefits Dosage Tablets drowsiness Drug Interactions Effects More common erythromycin estrogen Food/Alcohol Interactions Avoid herbal remedies high blood pressure hydrochlorothiazide immediately inform including nonprescription medicines infections inform your doctors inhibitor Interactions Avoid alcohol Interactions No special liver low dose medications unless approved migraine nausea notify your doctor NSAIDs Oral Contraceptives over-the-counter over-the-counter medications unless passes into breast persistent or troublesome pharmacist phenytoin potential to interact Pregnancy/Nursing Not recommended prescribe a low prescribed and immediately prescription Seniors No special special warnings sure your doctor symptoms take any over-the-counter Take as prescribed take this drug treatment troublesome side effects Type of Drug ulcers vaginal versus the potential vitamins vomiting women