Drug Topics, Digital Edition, October 2009

Check out important updates from the FDA for the week of April 22.

Wendy Crouse, DVM, an independent house call veterinarian with Heal House Call Veterinarian, sat down with Drug Topics to discuss how the adoption of e-prescribing has transformed her practice.

As the H5N1 bird flu virus continues to spread across dairy cattle in the US, researchers and government health officials are ramping up testing to stop the spread.

Kevin Hope, RPh, senior director of pharmacy education at Pharmcon, joined Drug Topics to discuss pharmacy compounding from the new USP changes and the importance of education around compounding best practices.

US health officials are growing increasingly worried about rising syphilis cases and have begun creating framework to slow down the spread.

The clinical manifestations of shingles can be divided into 3 phases.