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By Laura Brown
Pharmacist Manager of Customer Care
Wedgewood Pharmacy

Reprinted courtesy of the Partnership for Personalized Prescriptions.
 

Does your pet have anxiety or fearful behaviors?

Like humans, pets can develop anxiety and fears. Fireworks are considered a normal tradition on holidays for some cultures but can also frequently trigger anxiety in pets and animals.

What are some common causes of anxiety in pets, and what should I look for?

Anxiety is described or defined as a “phycological, physiological, and behavioral state induced in animals and humans by a threat to well-being or survival, either actual or potential.”

Common causes of anxiety in animals include loud noises, threatening/unfamiliar situations, travel, and cruelty, abuse, or neglect, but anxiety can occur in animals from any background

By Zoom Heaton, RPh., CDCES, ABAAHP, FAAMFM Clinical Liaison – Women’s Health, Revelation Pharma

Healthcare practitioners often encounter patients presenting with vaginal discomfort and discharge. Two common culprits behind these symptoms are bacterial vaginosis (BV) and yeast infections (candidiasis). Although these conditions share similar symptoms, their etiologies, treatments, and implications can vary significantly.

Understanding bacterial vaginosis

Bacterial vaginosis is an imbalance of the vaginal flora. It occurs when an overgrowth of anaerobic bacteria, including Gardnerella vaginalis, overwhelms the beneficial lactobacilli. BV is the most common vaginal infection in women of reproductive age.

Clinical presentation

• Thin, grayish-white, homogeneous vaginal

By Andrew Kantor

Check it out! Our friends at the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health’s (NPWH) have just dropped the inaugural episode of their “Her Health Matters” podcast — available wherever you get your podcasts.

In that first episode, host Heather Maurer chats with Dr. Komkwuan Paruchabutr, president of NPWH’s board of directors about Dr. Paruchabutr’s journey to becoming a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, and what makes WHNPs so critical. They also discuss the important changes — personal and systemic — that need to be made to advance women’s and gender-related health care.

At Revelation Pharma we appreciate NPWH’s message so much, we’ve sponsored that first episode. Listen

By Andrew Kantor

Hormone treatment — and hormonal birth control — can be life changing for women. But, as with any medication, sometimes there are side effects (especially with medications designed for everyone rather than custom-made).

If you’re curious why “ovarian hormones” can affect mood, for example, a University of Michigan psychologist has the answer with a great explanation of how hormones like birth control affect so many other bodily functions, notably in the brain.

“Estrogen and progesterone have broad effects on neurons and cellular processes that have nothing to do with reproduction,” she explains. In fact, “Estrogen and progesterone also regulate the stress response — the body’s ‘fight-or-flight’ reaction.”