The health insurance guide, developed by HCFA in collaboration with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, addresses questions about supplemental health insurance. The nation's emergency room physicians are seeing a growing number of serious and even fatal problems associated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. The problems develop when people who are already taking SSRIs also take illegal drugs such as LSD or cocaine, or take the SSRIs along with prescription monoamine oxydase inhibitors such as imipramine or meperidine. Deaths have been reported when the syndrome is not recognized in time. The syndrome was described in the November 1996 issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Timing is everything.
A Question of Timing, a patient guide designed to help consumers understand the importance of timing medications to treat a wide variety of health conditions, including cardiovascular, neurological, respiratory, inflammatory, gastrointestinal, and several other common disorders. The booklet discusses when most symptoms occur according to the body clock, how chronotherapy works, which medications have been specifically designed as chronotherapeutics, promising research in chronotherapy, and how patients can track the timing of their symptoms using a patient diary so they can discuss chronotherapeutic treatment options with their doctors. The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy's Web site can fill you in on current association activities, communications, and related sites. I have received my share of kidding from pharmacist friends because they have even beaten out us clergy. I offer three possible reasons.