Enhancing hypertension pharmacotherapeutics education by integrating social determinants of health.

Objective: Social determinants of health (SDOHs) play a significant role in hypertension management. Pharmacy program accreditation standards include that students should understand SDOHs. However, there are limited data regarding approaches to incorporating SDOHs within pharmacotherapeutics courses.

Impact of COVID-19 on Pharmacy Education and Practice: Strategies to Boost Advocacy and Unity among Health Care Organizations.

The global COVID-19 pandemic impacted pharmacy education and changed the pharmacists' scope of practice at the federal and state levels. Based on the Amended Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, pharmacists were authorized to provide essential services, including testing, treatments, and immunizations at various practice settings. Specifically, the United States Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization for several medications, vaccines, and medical devices.

We Found a Gem in Your Heart: Valvular Heart Disease and Infective Endocarditis Discovered.

Valvular heart disease (VHD) occurs when there is a functional impairment in the valvular apparatus that either obstructs or regurgitates the backflow of blood. When a microorganism resides in those valves, it injures the leaflets and causes complications such as thromboembolic events. Infective endocarditis (IE), usually caused by the Staphylococci and Streptococcus group, is a disease that occurs on the heart valves.

Monomeric C-reactive protein induces the cellular pathology of Alzheimer's disease.

Introduction: Human study shows that elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) in blood impacts apolipoprotein E () ε4, but not ε3 or ε2, genotype to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, whether CRP is directly involved in cellular AD pathogenesis and in which type of neuronal cells of ε4 carriers are unknown.

Methods: We aimed to use different primary neuronal cells and investigate if CRP induces cellular AD pathology depending on genotypes.

A Systematic Review of Global Health Assessment for Education in Healthcare Professions.

Objective: Emphasis on global health education is growing, with schools/colleges developing relevant courses, areas of concentration, and other didactic content. Organizations such as the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) provide guidance for competencies in global health, but evaluation strategies are lacking. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to identify methods and tools utilized to assess knowledge, skills, and attitudes in global health courses for health science students.

A Population Based Study of Liver Function amongst Adults with Hyperuricemia and Gout in the United States.

To examine the association between uric acid levels and liver enzyme functions amongst adults with hyperuricemia and gout in the United States. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data from 2007 to 2016 was used to study the research objective. Data were analyzed for descriptive statistics and for differences using the t test, Chi-square test and ANOVA.