Archive: 2025/12
- December 31 2025
- 9 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
Prior Authorization: How Providers Secure Approval for Generic Medications
Learn how healthcare providers navigate prior authorization to secure approval for generic medications, including documentation tips, approval timelines, and strategies to reduce delays and denials.
- December 30 2025
- 10 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
Insulin Therapy Side Effects: Managing Hypoglycemia and Weight Gain
Insulin therapy helps control blood sugar but often causes hypoglycemia and weight gain. Learn how to manage these side effects safely with monitoring, diet changes, new insulins, and lifestyle strategies.
- December 29 2025
- 12 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
FDA Generic Approval Changes 2023-2025: What Manufacturers and Patients Need to Know
The FDA's 2023-2025 changes to generic drug approval are speeding up access to affordable medications by prioritizing U.S.-made generics. Here's what it means for patients, pharmacies, and manufacturers.
- December 28 2025
- 9 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
How to Use Your Pharmacy’s Consultation Service for Medication Safety
Learn how to use your pharmacy’s consultation service to prevent dangerous drug interactions, save money, and improve medication safety with expert advice from your pharmacist.
- December 26 2025
- 14 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
Feverfew and Anticoagulants: Understanding the Bleeding Risk
Feverfew may help prevent migraines, but it can dangerously increase bleeding risk when taken with anticoagulants like warfarin or apixaban. Learn the signs, risks, and safe alternatives.
- December 24 2025
- 8 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
How TRIPS Trade Agreements Shape Global Access to Generic Medicines
TRIPS trade rules force countries to protect pharmaceutical patents, making generic drugs harder to produce and import. This has raised drug prices and delayed access for millions in low-income nations - despite legal flexibilities meant to protect public health.
- December 23 2025
- 10 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
How to Read Prescription Labels When Traveling or Crossing Time Zones
Learn how to read prescription labels for international travel, avoid customs issues, and manage medication timing across time zones with practical steps and real-world examples.
- December 22 2025
- 9 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
Wilson’s Disease: Understanding Copper Accumulation and Chelation Therapy
Wilson’s disease is a rare genetic disorder causing toxic copper buildup in the liver and brain. With early diagnosis and chelation therapy, patients can live normal lives. Learn how copper accumulates, how treatments work, and what to expect.
- December 21 2025
- 14 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
Bacterial Skin Infections: Impetigo, Cellulitis, and Antibiotics
Impetigo and cellulitis are common bacterial skin infections with different causes, symptoms, and treatments. Learn how to tell them apart, which antibiotics work, and when to seek urgent care.
- December 20 2025
- 12 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
European Generic Markets: Regulatory Approaches Across the EU in 2025
Explore how generic drugs are approved across the EU in 2025, including the four regulatory pathways, the impact of the new Pharma Package reforms, and what manufacturers need to know to navigate the system.
- December 19 2025
- 8 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory Disease: How to Diagnose and Treat Samter's Triad
AERD, or Samter's Triad, combines asthma, nasal polyps, and NSAID reactions. Diagnosis requires clinical history and sometimes an aspirin challenge. Aspirin desensitization after surgery is the most effective long-term treatment, reducing polyp recurrence and improving quality of life.
- December 18 2025
- 10 Comments
- Colin Winthrop
Ascites Management: How Sodium Restriction and Diuretics Really Work
Ascites management relies on sodium control and diuretics, but new evidence challenges old guidelines. Learn what actually works for cirrhosis-related fluid buildup, what to avoid, and how to stay safe while treating it.
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