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Your friend is working at a group home for people with severe developmental disabilities and tells you he administers medications. You know he is not a doctor or nurse and is not, in fact, any sort of licensed health professional. Is this legal?

Kyla has seizures in which the onset is limited to one cerebral hemisphere and involve no loss of consciousness. This type of seizure is called ____.

Mariam’s ophthalmologist prescribes a prostaglandin analog for her glaucoma and explains that prostaglandin inhibitors act by ____.

Tonya takes her bronchodilator using a nebulizer. What is the route of administration?

Under what circumstances should medication errors be reported?

Nayeli has just been diagnosed with high cholesterol. What category of antilipemics is considered to be the first choice for monotherapy of high cholesterol?

David was prescribed mefloquine hydrochloride to prevent malaria before his trip to India. Unfortunately, he had an adverse reaction to the drug and wound up hospitalized with hallucinations, paranoia, and amnesia. In the United States, what entity is specifically charged with reporting serious adverse events such as the one David experienced?

Hank is getting an insulin pump. Where will it be placed?

In the 1990s, an investigational new drug was developed to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s, but it was subsequently removed from the market due to liver toxicity. What was this drug?

Karla knows that when her friend took thyroid replacement, her friend lost weight. Karla has normal levels of thyroid hormones, but wonders whether taking thyroid replacement would help her lose weight as well. What should you tell her?