Megan has been taking 65,000 units of vitamin A per day. What is she risking with this dosage?

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?

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

Your healthy and active grandfather strains his back while helping you move your furniture. You have injured your back as well, so you give him the same over-the-counter pain reliever as the one you take, and in the same dosage. Unfortunately, your grandfather quickly develops severe stomach pain and is found to be bleeding into his stomach. What has he experienced?

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?

Responsibility for safe administration of medications requires that the health care practitioner ____.

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?

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

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?

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