Fem-V, a new at-home test to help determine how to treat vaginal infections

May 2006

Women will be seeing ads for Fem-V, a new at-home test to help determine how to treat vaginal infections.

Many women try OTC antiFUNGALS first...but most vaginal infections are actually bacterial.

Fem-V is a diagnostic strip placed inside a panty liner.

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Table of Contents

Medication Therapy Management (MTM) in conjunction with the new Medicare law
Women's Health Evista to prevent breast cancer
Women's Health Fem-V, a new at-home test to help determine how to treat vaginal infections
strategies for treatment-resistant depression
whether all ADHD drugs will get a black box warning about the risk of cardiac and psychiatric events
Obesity & Weight Loss using the new diabetes drug, Byetta (exenatide), for weight loss
Ophthalmology Soft contact lens users are getting warnings about serious fungal eye infections and some ReNu solutions
Infectious Diseases Truvada (tenofovir/emtricitabine) BEFORE risky behavior to prevent HIV infection
Cardiology Patients are asking if they should stop taking the combination of Plavix (clopidogrel) plus aspirin
Cardiology how to prevent or delay hypertension
Cardiology if chocolate is healthy
Gastroenterology levofloxacin-based regimens for treatment-resistant H. pylori infections
Medication Errors medication reconciliation
Pharmacists are having trouble stocking albuterol inhalers
Practice Niaspan and Niacor are no longer excluded under Medicare Part D