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PregCenter:  Information and Support Center for Pregnancy Moms Click Here  New!

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Job Hunters:  We have a list of most powerful job hunter sites available on the net for Pharmacists, Nurses, Doctors, and all healthcare professionals.  

Official Drug Sites

FDA: U.S. Food and Drug Administration.   This department regulates the following products:  Food; Drugs; Medical Devices; Biologics; Animal Feed and Drugs; Cosmetics; Radiation-Emitting Products; and Combination Products.

CDC:  Centers of Diseases Control and Prevention.  CDC is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people.  CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

NIH:  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the United States.  NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone.

DSEA:  The Dietary Supplement Education Alliance ™ (DSEA ™) is an ambitious partnership created to promote the responsible use of vitamins, minerals, herbs and specialty supplements.    

NGC:  The National Guideline Clearinghouse to provide physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining objective, detailed information on clinical practice guidelines and to further their dissemination, implementation and use.

Useful Information Resource

BMI:  Body Mass Calculation is one of the best methods for population assessment of overweight and obesity. The use of BMI allows people to compare their own weight status to the general population. The only information required to calculate a person's BMI are height, weight, and the BMI formula

Consumer Information

Pharmacy:  What you should know before you going to pharmacy with a prescription from your medical doctor?

Physician: What is physician and what do they do.  What is a specialty?

Dentist :  What is the difference between D.D.S or D.M.D?  What are specialties for dentists

Nurse:   What you should know about nurse and their scope of practice?

Chiropractor: What you should know about your chiropractor and their service?

Physical Therapy:  What do they do? Do I need a referral to see them?

Foot Doctor:  What is podiatry? Is foot doctor a real doctor?

RxCircle Community 3oq.com Search:

AJHP:  Official Journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.  Each publication includes new drug overview, therapy update, management case study, and therapy consultation. 

Consultant Pharmacist:  Published by the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP).   Focus on senior care and LTCs.       

Drug Store News:  Approved by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education as a provider of continuing pharmaceutical education.  Each quarterly publication is worth two contact hours. 

Geriatric Times:  An interdisciplinary approach to healthy aging, A CME,Inc. publication.  Great Source for Seniors.            

JAPHA:  Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association  is a peer-reviewed forum for original research, review, experience, and opinion articles that link science with contemporary pharmacy practice to improve patient care. 

Long-Term Care Interface:  Published by Medicom International, Inc.  Each issue has LTC interview, LTC interface, Senior editor's page, and special articles. 

NYCPS:  New York City Pharmacists Society, an affiliate of the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York.  It has the most current events happened in the pharmacy profession.

P&T:  The official journal of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Society.  A Peer-Reviewed Journal for Managed-Care and Hospital-Formulary Management. 

Pharmacy Practice News:  Free of charge to all U.S. health-system pharmacists.  Educational guidelines and take the CE quiz online. 

Pharmacy Times:  A lot of practical information for today's pharmacists. Focuses on Rx, hospital, legal, OTC, CE also included.  Also a supplement focuses on "Pharmacy Careers"

Pharmacy Today:  An Official publication of the American Pharmaceutical Association, the profession's news and opinion leader.                 

Pharmacy Week:  The Pharmacy Professionals' Employment Resource.  A licensed pharmacist or a pharmacy student can received the publication for free.           

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Prescription Drugs:  Intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in man or animals.  Recognized in the official United States pharmacopeia, official homeopathic pharmacopeia or the United States, or official national formulary.

Over the Counter Drugs:  Drugs for which a prescription is not required by the provisions of the Federal Food and Drug Administration. 

Vitamins:  Any of a number of unrelated, complex organic substances found variously in most foods and essentials, in small amounts, for the normal functioning of the body

Herbs and Supplements:  Any plant whose stem withers away to the ground after each season's growth, as distinguished from a tree or shrub whose woody stem lives from year to year, any such plant used as a medicine, seasoning, or food, including vegetative growth; grass; herbage.

Disease  Managements 

Diseases:  Characterized by any departure from health, a particular destructive process in the body, with a specific cause and characteristic symptoms.  It interrupts or impairs all the natural and regular function of an organ of a living body and to afflict with pain or sickness.

Alternative Medicine        

Acupuncture:  The ancient practice, especially as carried on by the Chinese, of piercing parts of the body with needles in seeking to treat disease or relieve pain.

Aromatherapy:  A fragrance of plants, or other substances has a pleasant smell, often spicy odor, to relieve stress.

Ayurveda:  A sacred system of medicine from ancient India, originating C.5000 BC.  Good health is seen as a state of harmony between the air (vata) which governs movement, fire (pitta) which governs digestion and warmth, and water (kapha) which governs cohesions, growth and lubrication.

Diet:  A regular manner of living to what a person or animal usually eats and drinks.  Or limited food and drinks, chosen or prescribed for health or to gain or lose weight.

Yoga:  In Hindu philosophy, a practice involving intense and complete concentration upon something, especially the deity, in order to establish identity of consciousness with the object of concentration.