Clinical Pharmacy

Opportunistic Infections: Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia (PJP)

Our first clinical pharmacy article of the year is a high-level overview of pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia, or PJP (aka PCP). Stay tuned for future opportunistic infection posts!

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Monthly Recaps

December Recap 2024

We are back with another monthly post for our paid subscribers. In this post, we also share a number of fun things that are more personal, interesting, and meant to create a closer community around RxTeach.

Health and Wellness

Wearable Wellness: How the Oura Ring May Enhance Patient Care in Pharmacy Practice

By focusing on sleep, health metrics, and activity, the Oura Ring may provide a holistic approach to health tracking.

Health and Wellness

Building a Reading Habit: Practical Steps to Read More Books

Reading should be a fun, leisurely activity, but why does it feel like a chore? Join us as we walk through some tips on how to build up your reading habits!

Health and Wellness

Physical Activity and Exercise Part 2

Start the new year with healthier habits! Learn about aerobic and anaerobic exercise and the utility of weight training in this week's article.

Science

How the Polio Vaccine Paralyzed Hundreds of Children, Eroding Public Trust in Government Health Policy

One of the greatest scientists in American history is Dr. Jonas Salk, known today for establishing the prestigious Salk Institute in San Diego, California, and for discovering the polio vaccine. Dr. Salk is one of the few scientists ever to be put on the cover of Time Magazine, along with

Health and Wellness

The Nurture of Intelligence: Insights from the Terman Study

Whatever your definition of success, it is clear that values, habits, and support systems play a crucial role in shaping one's ability to achieve it.

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Students

Midyear Check-In: Practice NAPLEX Questions

Health and Wellness

Insightful Ponderings 5

These articles are short, sweet, and meant to make you THINK.

Health and Wellness

Winter Nutrition and Supplements for Immune Support

Maintaining healthy habits can serve as a stepping stone to increased energy, disease prevention, and improved mood, to name a few.

Students

How to Navigate ASHP Midyear 2024

If you know you know: ASHP Midyear is a BEAST. We want to simplify this conference for you and help you navigate such a crazy experience!

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Monthly Recaps

November Recap 2024

We are back with another monthly post for our paid subscribers. In this post, we also share a number of fun things that are more personal, interesting, and meant to create a closer community around RxTeach.

Health and Wellness

Physical Activity and Exercise - Part 1

Start the new year with healthier habits! Learn about aerobic and anaerobic exercise benefits for diabetes, hypertension, and overall well-being in this week's article.

Professional Development

What I Learned from Knocking on Doors

I recently had to collect over 100 signatures by knocking on doors in my community. It was a massive departure from my comfort zone, but I learned a lot. For this week's bonus article, here are 5 unsolicited takeaways from that experience.

Science

Receptor Highlight Series: G-protein Coupled Receptors

G-protein coupled receptors have an extensive history in drug discovery. Join me in learning more about the individual subtypes and their functions!

Health and Wellness

An Introduction to EMDR Therapy

Developed by Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s, EMDR is a structured therapy that helps clients process distressing memories and emotions through a series of guided eye movements.

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Clinical Pharmacy

Aminoglycoside Peak/Trough Interpretations

This past month, I had the pleasure to co-precept a pharmacy resident on an Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) rotation. Being a (mostly) outpatient HIV pharmacist for the last 10 months, I was both excited and nervous. What aspects of AMS could I cover from an HIV/outpatient perspective? Oh, how I

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Monthly Recaps

October Recap 2024

We are back with another monthly post for our paid subscribers. In this post, we also share a number of fun things that are more personal, interesting, and meant to create a closer community around RxTeach.

Clinical Pharmacy

Finding Nemolizumab in Prurigo Nodularis

Nemolizumab, when administered every 4 weeks, saw a statistically significant improvement in itch relief and IGA treatment success at Week 16, with results as early as 4 weeks, sustained/improvement through Week 24, and a relatively favorable safety profile.

Clinical Pharmacy

Cryptogenic Stroke: Part 2

Even when it was happening, I was convinced that it could not be a stroke, that it had to be something else, even though I had the three hallmark signs (arm weakness, facial droop, slurred speech).

Science

FDA and CDER: New Drug Therapy Approvals 2023

Today we dive in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) New Drug Therapy Reports from 2023 and the future implications of these new approvals!

Professional Development

Government Explained Using High School Biology

For all the science minded folks like myself who paid more attention in biology class than in civics, let me explain how each branch functions using a language you're more familiar with, cellular biology.

Science

Cancer + Telomerase = Immortality?

Unlike cultures taken from other patients, the "HeLa" cells continued to divide and replicate indefinitely, thus becoming the first "immortal" cell line.

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Journal Clubs

FLOW Trial Journal Club

We break down evidence-based medicine so you don't have to! This journal club will discuss the new FLOW trial that has some landmark results you don't want to miss!

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Monthly Recaps

September Recap 2024

We are back with another monthly post for our paid subscribers. In this post, we also share a number of fun things that are more personal, interesting, and meant to create a closer community around RxTeach.