The book is a useful additional resource for those offering advice to patients on treating minor
ailments, and the algorithms are particularly helpful. --Laurence A. Goldberg Independent
pharmaceutical consultant, Lancashire, EnglandThe Pharmaceutical Journal Online March 2009

Thoroughly updated and revised, the Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach
to Self-Care, 16th edition, helps students and practitioners develop problem-solving skills needed
to assess and triage a pharmacy patient s medical problems. It provides U.S. Food and Drug
Administration-approved dosing information and evidence-based research on the efficacy and safety
of over-the-counter and herbal medications.

Key Features:

Contributors include more than 70 academics and practitioners from multiple health care fields
with expertise in non-prescription medications and devices and other self-care options.
Updated information and references and new, improved anatomical drawings are included.
An enhanced complementary and alternative medicine section provides readers with a broad overview
of different healing practices that patients may be using.
New information on emergency contraception is provided.
Disease-oriented chapters contain new and revised case studies, treatment algorithms, comparisons
of self-treatments, patient education boxes, product selection guidelines, and tables that list
interactions as well as dosage and administration guidelines.
The Key Points section at the end of the chapters highlights important concepts.
Free eBook download with purchase of the textbook makes the entire content fully searchable on
your computer. Available on Pharmacy Library.

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