Serotonin syndrome in depressed patients with migraine
How concerned should clinicians be about serotonin syndrome when prescribing a triptan with a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)?
Drug Reactions
What causes delirium?
Is it possible to have a geriatric patient in serious delirium while all labs and urinalysis are within normal limits?
New-onset alopecia in women
What is the appropriate workup in an otherwise healthy woman aged 75 years with new-onset hair loss?
Prescribing diabetes medications
Before prescribing medications to control diabetes, clinicians should consider potential adverse events and drug interactions.
FDA adds bladder cancer warning to pioglitazone label
Interim findings from an epidemiological study involving 193,099 patients with diabetes showed that using pioglitazone longer than one year increased patients’ risk for bladder cancer.
FDA warns against combining methylene blue, linezolid with SSRIs
Clinicians should not administer methylene blue or linezolid, two reversible monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MOAIs), to patients taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) due to risk for serious central nervous system reactions.
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