Glenn has keratitis caused by herpes simplex. How often should he apply his prescribed antiviral eye drops?

Jesse often complains about government regulation and maintains that only drugs with potential for abuse or addiction should require prescriptions. What other medications require prescriptions in the United States?

Your friend is working at a group home for people with severe developmental disabilities and tells you he administers medications. You know he is not a doctor or nurse and is not, in fact, any sort of licensed health professional. Is this legal?

Ozzie’s doctor tells him not to take his tetracycline with dairy products because the calcium in the dairy products will form an insoluble complex with the tetracycline. What is this process called?

Ms. Vasco’s arms are covered with bruises and as a result, she begs you to give her a pill rather than another injection. Under what circumstances can a route be changed?

Newborn Giana has sleep apnea. The medication of choice is ____.

You are reading about the treatment of cardiovascular disease and learn that some medications are more effective in African Americans than persons of other races. The study of why medications vary in effectiveness among groups is known as ____.

Leland and his friends are in the mountains for the weekend, and collect greens, berries, and mushrooms for their final meal. Leland makes and taste tests the mushroom dish and wounds up violently ill with mushroom poisoning. At the hospital, he is treated with atropine. What side effects might Leland experience from the atropine?

Your great-grandmother is hospitalized from a broken hip and has become critically ill with a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. What is the first-line antibiotic for the treatment of MRSA?

David was prescribed mefloquine hydrochloride to prevent malaria before his trip to India. Unfortunately, he had an adverse reaction to the drug and wound up hospitalized with hallucinations, paranoia, and amnesia. In the United States, what entity is specifically charged with reporting serious adverse events such as the one David experienced?