Pharmacology

High-quality clinical practice guidelines for low back pain demonstrate substantial agreement overall. However, more than one-third of treatment recommendations conflict across guidelines. Which category of...

SNRIs are commonly prescribed to treat depression. W. Clay Jackson, MD, DipTh, asks if you know how serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors are used to reduce pain.

A California physician was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for conspiring with a pharmacist to illegally distribute controlled substances. Should the pharmacist receive a similar sentence?

There are “myths” that surround the use of GLP-1 receptor agonists among patients, and it is a health care provider’s role to help their patients understand the benefits and adverse effects of these...

A New York court makes the distinction between medical malpractice and ordinary negligence in a case involving a doctor who wrote an illegible prescription.