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Heath Experts Say Antimicrobial Resistance Could be Worse than COVID

Posted by Wise Diagnostic Content Team on 12 Jul, 2023

There is no denying the physical and emotional havoc that the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought in three short years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimating the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for 6,202,800 hospitaliza...

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COVID-19, Prescription Drugs

U.S. Drug Shortages Near an All-Time High, Scarcity of Cancer Drugs

Posted by Wise Diagnostic Content Team on 2 Jun, 2023

Drug shortages in the U.S. healthcare systems are approaching an all-time high with an alarming scarcity of drugs to treat cancer patients.

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Treatment, Healthcare, Prescription Drugs

Pharmacy Forecast: Patients Want Personalized Care, Pharmacogenomics

Posted by Wise Diagnostic Content Team on 8 Feb, 2023

Smiling pharmacist and customer discussing a product in the pharmacy

The “Pharmacy Next: Health Consumer Medication Trends” survey commissioned by Wolters Kluwer shows that patients in 2023 want personalized m...

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Healthcare, Prescription Drugs, Pharmacogenomics, PGx

Healthcare Costs Set to Increase in 2023

Posted by Wise Diagnostic Content Team on 10 Jan, 2023

Stethoscope on pile of U.S. twenty-dollar bills isolated on white background

Employers will be searching for initiatives to control benefit costs as healthcare costs are set to increase an estimated 7 percent in 2023.

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COVID-19, Healthcare, Prescription Drugs

Importance of Taking Antibiotics within Recommended Doctor Practices

Posted by Wise Diagnostic Content Team on 15 Dec, 2022

Antibiotics have often been called a modern miracle for good reason as some argue that in a world without effective antibiotics, global life...

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Healthcare, Prescription Drugs

Traditional Culture Tests vs. PCR Tests

Posted by Wise Diagnostic Content Team on 25 Oct, 2022

Traditional culture tests have been around since the birth of microbiology in the 19th century, but innovations in molecular methods such as...

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PCR Testing, Treatment, Healthcare, Prescription Drugs

The 5 Most Commonly Prescribed Drugs in America

Posted by Wise Diagnostic Content Team on 19 Oct, 2022

Five of the most prescribed drugs in America all treat different medical conditions but they have one thing in common – they are used by mil...

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Treatment, Healthcare, Prescription Drugs

Medicare: By the Numbers

Posted by Wise Diagnostic Content Team on 10 Oct, 2022

Happy senior citizen woman in a doctors office.

Medicare, the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older as well as certain younger people with disabilities, was the s...

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Healthcare, Prescription Drugs

Pharmacogenomics and Psychiatry: The Future of Prescribing

Posted by Wise Diagnostic Content Team on 13 Sep, 2022

A recent article in The Pharmaceutical Journal argues that pharmacogenetic data can be utilized to prevent adverse drug reactions and improv...

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Prescription Drugs, Pharmacogenomics, PGx

Overmedication of America: Prescription Drug Use on the Rise

Posted by Wise Diagnostic Content Team on 6 Sep, 2022

Antibiotics - Printed Diagnosis with Blurred Text. Red Pills, Injections and Syringe.

Americans' use of prescription drugs has skyrocketed in the last decade as about 2 in 3 U.S. adults increasingly take advantage of the 20,00...

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Long-Term Care, Prescription Drugs, Polypharmacy

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Heath Experts Say Antimicrobial Resistance Could be Worse than COVID

U.S. Drug Shortages Near an All-Time High, Scarcity of Cancer Drugs

Pharmacy Forecast: Patients Want Personalized Care, Pharmacogenomics

Healthcare Costs Set to Increase in 2023

Importance of Taking Antibiotics within Recommended Doctor Practices

Traditional Culture Tests vs. PCR Tests

The 5 Most Commonly Prescribed Drugs in America

Medicare: By the Numbers

Pharmacogenomics and Psychiatry: The Future of Prescribing

Overmedication of America: Prescription Drug Use on the Rise

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