Barriers to counseling patients with obesity: a study of Texas community pharmacists.

Objective: To assess barriers to the counseling of obese patients and identify pharmacists' characteristics associated with these barriers.

Design: Cross-sectional mail survey.

Setting: Texas.

Combating the obesity epidemic: community pharmacists' counseling on obesity management.

Background: Obesity is reaching an epidemic proportion in the US. Nearly two-thirds (64.7%) of US adults are overweight or obese.

Hormonal interventions for menstrual migraines.

Menstrual migraines are a treatment challenge for both the migraineur and the health care professional. Although some women with menstrual migraines may respond to acute and preventive therapies for nonmenstrual migraines, others continue to suffer from refractory menstrual migraines. These women may respond to hormonal interventions, which may reduce the frequency of menstrual migraines, thereby lessening the need for abortive migraine therapies, decreasing migraine-related disability, and improving quality of life.