Individuals increasingly are taking a more active role in their health care, and herbal products
have emerged as a common choice among self-care therapies. Pharmacists are active …

Editors' Note: This month we continue the new featllre-STEPped Care: An Evidmce-BasedApproach
to/) l1lg Therapy. These articles are designed to provide concise answf1'S to the …

Dietary supplements are commonly used, and many are effective or hold promise for
treating various conditions. However, they do not require Food and Drug Administration (FDA) …

Al though no of fi cial def i ni tion ex ists in the United States, func tional food may be de scribed
as a food with in gre di ents that pro vide a health benefitbeyond the food it self. How ever…

It was brought to our attention that there may be some confusion regarding the term “adulterant”
when used to describe melatonin in our “White Paper on Herbal Products.” 1 We offer …

… Ila Mehra deserves special recognition for her guidance and … Ila Mehra provides a current
prospective on the selection of an … Mehra also addresses the issue of tight control, although the …

The bibliographic citation for this document is as follows: American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists. ASHP Therapeutic Position Statement on the Identification and Treatment of …

… Our findings are similar to the findings of few other authors (Harris AD, et al., 2007; Shanthi
M, and Sekar U, 2010) while other studies have found the opposite results (Ankur G, et al., …

Both large-and small-scale research findings from the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality’s (2004) National Health Care Disparities Report, the Institute of Medicine’s Unequal …

… Homing in on the rapidly shifting media landscape of this time helps explain the emergence
of Ila Arun and her “ethnic” voice, which I argue both undermined and temporarily extended …