Find the answers below to the anemia crossword puzzle! Anemia is one of the most common blood disorders worldwide, affecting people of all ages. Whether you’re a healthcare professional, student, or just curious about health topics, understanding anemia—and how...
When patients have anemia, supplements often get prescribed. To many of our polypharmacy patients, excessive prescribing can lead to an increase in pill burden that may not always be necessary. When looking at deprescribing supplements, anemia is an excellent disease...
Prednisone is a corticosteroid that I see used almost on a daily basis in my practice. There are many important clinical pearls that will show up in practice as well as on your board exams. In this blog post, I will share my top 5 prednisone clinical pearls....
Anemia is a blood disorder that has an impact on the red blood cells. Many different types of anemia can exist in patients. In this post, we are going to discuss pernicious anemia. What is Pernicious Anemia? Pernicious anemia is a very rare autoimmune disorder...
Iron therapy can be life-changing for some anemia patients and help them improve their energy and ultimately, their quality of life. Sometimes anemia isn’t responsive to iron. In this article, I discuss my top reasons why patients don’t respond to iron...
Sulfasalazine is classified as a DMARD (Disease-modifying antirheumatic drug) as well as a 5-aminosalicylic acid derivative. The most common use in clinical practice that I’ve seen sulfasalazine used for is rheumatoid arthritis, but it can also play a role in...