Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-care - Hardcover

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The Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs: An Interactive Approach to Self-Care contains the most authoritative information on nonprescription drug pharmacotherapy, nutritional supplements, medical foods, nondrug and preventive measures, and complementary and alternative therapies. The 16th edition shows students and practitioners how to assess and triage a patient's health complaint. And it provides FDA-approved dosing information and evidence-based research on efficacy and safety considerations of nonprescription, herbal, and homeopathic medications.It includes: updated information and references; thorough cross-referencing of the primary topics; enhanced complementary and alternative medicine section, with three new chapters replacing those of the previous edition, plus standardized assessments of natural products throughout; quick-reference tools such as treatment algorithms (including exclusions for self-treatment), drug product tables, patient education sidebars, and product administration illustrations; new case studies in each disease-related chapter; concise Key Points section at the end of the disease-related chapters; and, color plate section with more than 50 illustrations. Free to purchasers of the book is a fully searchable eBook of the entire textbook downloaded to your computer.

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