Thelma has restless leg syndrome that has disrupted her sleep and left her drowsy during the day. What medication might be helpful?

Spencer is taking a tricyclic antidepressant and complains of a dry mouth, drowsiness, and urinary retention. What property of tricyclics accounts for these side effects?

Rose has Type 1 diabetes and uses regular insulin. What are the characteristics of regular insulin?

Your dog is diabetic and you must give her insulin injections twice a day. She is something of a spoiled princess and you want to use needles that have the smallest diameter opening as possible. The size of the opening is specified by the needle’s ____.

Tess is post-menopausal and has an intact uterus. She is very concerned about osteoporosis, as her mother had a number of painful and debilitating osteoporosis-associated fractures. What would she risk were she to take estrogen-only hormone replacement?

The only clinical drug currently used in the cardiac glycoside family is ____.

Rosetta has seizures that are characterized by an abrupt loss of consciousness, falling, with extension of trunk and extremities, followed by alternating contractions and relaxation of the muscles. These are classified as ____.

If a health care practitioner is unfamiliar with a drug, he or she should ____.

Your dog is diabetic and you must give her insulin injections twice a day. She is something of a spoiled princess and you want to use needles that have the smallest diameter opening as possible. The size of the opening is specified by the needle’s ____.

The two-year-old daughter of a dear friend has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor that has not responded to radiation or chemotherapy. Your friend sends you links to a clinic that claims to be able to cure “hopeless” cancers and points out the messages from families whose children have been cured. You explain that ____.