Author Archives: pharminpt

A new drug to lower blood glucose and treat type 2 diabetes

Posted on May 12, 2011 by pharminpt

Last Monday, May 2, the FDA approved a new medication for type 2 diabetes. It’s pretty safe to argue that this is a common co-morbidity among patients in rehabilitation. And as far as medications that are important in physical therapy … Continue reading →

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These are 10 you should know

Posted on May 5, 2011 by pharminpt

What medications are most commonly taken by patients in your practice? If you can’t name 5 of them, you might want to compile some data and figure out what’s in your top 10. Then, make sure clinicians in your practice … Continue reading →

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Your patients might not know what you think they do about their medications

Posted on March 24, 2011 by pharminpt

There’s an interesting and informative medical blog out there called Clinical Cases and Images: Casesblog that I follow in my RSS reader and it recently pointed me to a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2006.[1] The … Continue reading →

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…pssssssst… your patients are on drugs.

Posted on January 5, 2011 by pharminpt

These are your patients: These are your patients on drugs: They look the same, don’t they? That’s because nearly all of your patients – young or old, athletes or critically ill – use some substance that changes their physiology. That … Continue reading →

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