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Upstate HomeCare acquires PharmHealth Infusion Inc.

PHI Pharmacy is an independent Pharmacy dedicated to the art and science of compounding, and the dispensing of I.V. admixtures, oral & injectable medications.
PHI’s mission is to provide infusion services in the comfort of the patient’s home while maintaining high quality care that is also cost effective.
PharmHealth Infusion, Inc. (PHI) is Rochester’s only locally owned [...]

Want To Lose Weight? Keep A Food Diary

US researchers working on a study comparing approaches to weight loss, found that keeping a food diary can double weight loss as part of a managed programme; they said that the more food records they kept, the more weight the participants lost.
The study was carried out by investigators from Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research, [...]

Pharmacists As Educators Can Improve Asthma Outcomes

New research has shown that up to 90 per cent of people on asthma medications are using their inhalers incorrectly leading to poor asthma control, increased hospital visits and increased cost of treatment.
The study then went on to show how a brief educational chat with a pharmacist about inhaler technique and stickers on the medication [...]