Monthly Archives: July 2018
News From the International Menopause Society Meeting in Vancouver
Carolyn Whiskin and Kerry Roberts, two of our pharmacists at Charlton, have just returned from the International Menopause Society Meeting in Vancouver. They are both Certified Menopause Practitioners and were very proud to be attending, as this is the first … Continue reading
World Hepatitis Day
Saturday July 28th is World Hepatitis Day. The main goal of World Hepatitis Day is to help gain awareness around diagnosing the nearly 300 million people living with viral hepatitis that aren’t aware. Mark Your Calendars: On Friday July 27th, the Charlton Health … Continue reading
July 23rd is World Sjögren’s Day
July 23rd is World Sjögren’s Day, a day meant to put a face on the millions of people who live with this disease or suffer from symptoms and have yet to be diagnosed. What is Sjögren’s syndrome? It is an … Continue reading
How Anti-IL-6 Medications Work
For our last blog, we continued a series of how specific biologic medications work. Rituxan was the first medication presented in February 2018 and last week we shared how anti-TNF biologics work. This was prompted by a patient asking me … Continue reading