Vallerand, April Hazard
Summary: "Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses®, Nineteenth Edition delivers everything you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan--well-organized monographs encompassing hundreds of generic drugs and thousands of trade names.Its nursing-focused 'Cure & Care' approach makes it the ideal resource for both student and practicing nurses by delivering exactly what they need to know to provide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: F.A. Davis 2025
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.102 VALSummary: "The 2024 Lippincott Pocket Drug Guide for Nurses provides current, vital drug information "in a nutshell." This handy pocket guide contains essential information on over 3,900 medications, including 19 generic drugs newly approved by the FDA, in an easy-access A-to-Z format. The "mini" drug monographs include generic and trade names, drug classes, pregnancy risk category and controlled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolters Kluwer 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.105 LIP1 available in Reference, Call number: R 615.105 LIP
Kirsch, Donald R.
Summary: "The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter. The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity-- by chewing, brewing, and snorting--some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Otzi the Iceman, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615 KIRSummary: With nano-enabled drugs that destroy diseased cells and enable tissue repair, doctors may one day extend life expectancy far beyond our current capabilities—at least in countries wealthy enough to afford the technology. But the medicine that so radically redefines our standards of health and mortality will also profoundly challenge our social support systems and cultural values. In this Fred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Do the world's rainforests contain a cure for cancer and AIDS? This intriguing program travels to Jakarta, Surabaya, and the jungles of Kalimantan to investigate the preparation and use of natural remedies to combat illnesses such as skin fungus, malaria, and even AIDS. But logging continues unabated, even as ethnobiologists from the National Cancer Institute and the Harvard Medical School...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Taking a tour through the world of pharmaceuticals, this program reveals that drug advances have as much to do with serendipity as science-and that they frequently produce as many questions as solutions. Viewers learn about the shifting purposes behind some medicines-as in the case of Ritalin, which was designed to treat adult depression, and Viagra, the sexual benefits of which are actually a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Singh Saroya, Amritpal
Summary: This book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of psychoactive medicinal plants, explaining in detail the species that are most commonly used in medicine, and describing their mechanism of action, the implicated toxin, clinical manifestation and therapeutic role. It explores the recent research in the area of psychoactive medicinal plants and fungal neurotoxins, and presents the various...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Springer 2020
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 615.3 SINSummary: Antibiotics initially worked miracles, saving millions of lives. In just decades, many of the wonder drugs are ineffective. How did it happen? This program reports on a battle for survival between humans and microbes, providing a concise history of antibiotics, as well as tracing their decline in efficacy. Their overuse and misuse is examined in medicine, agriculture, and domestic cleaning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Some doctors are wary of prescribing medication for ADD or ADHD, especially when treating young patients-but the majority rely on psychotropic drugs. This program challenges the status quo, supported by a staggering amount of testimony and documentation. Incorporating detailed interviews with psychiatrists, neurologists, and education experts-as well as parents and kids who have suffered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The misuse of prescription medicine is a growing problem. This program outlines six commonsense questions every patient should ask when given a prescription, like what activities should be avoided, and possible side effects. It also explains the importance of communication between patient, physician, and pharmacist to avoid potential problems. Saving medication, borrowing it from friends, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With the staggering variety of pharmaceuticals available today, training in correct drug administration is more important than ever. This program serves to build skills and awareness that will ensure the safe and accurate administration of medicines by health care personnel, as well as by the layperson. It examines factors that lead to medication errors, explores methods of prevention, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: New findings indicate that some of the most addictive and dangerous drugs are legal ones. This program looks at the pros and cons of the current drug classification system, shedding new light on the physiological and neurological effects of various substances. With the help of London's Institute of Psychiatry and other leading addiction research organizations, the program assesses the risks of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Confusion over multiple prescriptions and appropriate dosages might sound like a minor nuisance-but it can be dangerous or even fatal. This program explores the challenges that patients often face as they cope with drug interactions. An informative case study features a woman who regularly takes more than 12 medications for various health problems and who, while hospitalized, experienced a drug...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Today's antibiotics are quickly losing their ability to combat bacterial infections. What has caused this pharmacological disaster? This program examines the link between the use of antibiotics in livestock as growth promoters and the rise of resistance to their effectiveness in humans. Although certain classes of antibiotics have already been banned in agricultural use, some authorities are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Modern medicine owes much of its success to drugs. How do these chemical molecules treat and cure aches and illnesses? This program explains that these substances are usually "copies" of natural substances produced by our own bodies. We witness the invention of a new drug by two researchers working at a major pharmaceutical laboratory-computer-assisted, of course. Finally, we are introduced to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Antibiotics have saved countless lives from potentially deadly infections-but bacteria keep rebounding in stronger mutations. This program focuses on one of the most lethal pathogens: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. Outlining the microbe's alarming ability to withstand methicillin, amoxicillin, and related antibiotics, the program examines the emergence of two separate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Kotler, Steven
Summary: Argues that rare and controversial states of consciousness are being used by Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALS, and maverick scientists to boost information and inspiration and to solve critical challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154 KOTMarek, Claudia.
Summary: A guide for those newly diagnosed with fibromyalgia, offering information on treatments, medications, pain management, diet and exercise strategies, and research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marlowe 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.74 MARSummary: Science has made leaps and bounds in its assault on AIDS-but do antiretroviral drugs guarantee a long life? Why does the disease still cause widespread suffering in Africa, despite the development of new medicines? Author and actor Stephen Fry investigates, traveling across the U.S., Great Britain, and Uganda as he studies the medical obstacles to an AIDS-free world. Fry highlights good news,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Pharmaceutical prices in the U.S. are pushing patients to have their prescriptions filled in Canada, where drugs such as Lipitor cost less. Budget-conscious state governments are also eyeing Canadian distributors as a way to manage their prescription plans while making fiscal ends meet. But officially speaking, such transactions are still illegal in the U.S.-and the medicines themselves,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Once diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, most patients can expect a stable and active lifestyle for up to a decade-but new drugs could lengthen that period. This program follows five volunteers in the clinical trial of MitoQ, a medicine designed to slow the ailment's progress. Viewers are taken through the yearlong, double-blind placebo-controlled study, in which each volunteer performs a daily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Although Alexander Fleming is usually credited with the discovery of penicillin in 1928, no penicillin-based antibiotic was actually developed for human use until 1938 through the work of Australian pathologist Howard Florey and German biochemist Ernst Chain. This program puts Fleming's contribution in scientific perspective. Live interviews, journal accounts, and archival footage lead the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program illustrates a growing appetite for—and dependence on—experience-enhancing pharmaceuticals and nutriceuticals among those who have the money, the connections, or the savvy to procure them. Drawing examples from the U.S. and France, Pills: Never Enough! examines the use of dietary supplements augmented by hormones to slow the effects of aging; the consumption of energy drinks such as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: With thousands of prescription drugs on the market, patients, physicians, and pharmacists must work together as never before to ensure that medicines yield their intended effects without exposing those taking them to unnecessary health risks. This overview of prescription medications emphasizes the dangers of interactions between prescription drugs and other prescription drugs, over-the-counter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006