The Med List

As the health system continues to evolve and our population ages we are seeing families have to navigate not only medical care, but the entire caregiving process. It often times is a struggle. Please join us and our guest, a recognized leader in caregiver and aging community advocacy, Nicole Will. We will dive into tips, navigation aids, and what patients and clinicians need to know about caregiving.

When you hear acupuncture, what do you think of? Needles? "Alternative" medicine? Join us and our expert guest, Bernadette Eichas, a nurse with significant acupuncture training, to explore the benefits and the role of this therapy.

The US is the only large country that allows advertising and promoting drugs directly to patients. Learn why that matters and how that is regulated as Donna Bartlett and Kevin Walker interview industry & regulatory expert, Susanne Steiner, MBA.

Prescribing and deprescribing are not simply addition and subtraction. This can be frustrating for patients and for clinicians, especially when evidence of success is lacking or questionable in either direction. Join Donna & Kevin and to take a deeper look at the relationship between deprescribing and prescribing and how you can tilt the equation in your favor.

During the last months, weeks, and days of life for our family, friends, and patients, perspectives change. Those perspectives also change when talking about medication use. Join Donna Bartlett, Kevin Walker, and expert guest Veronica Riera-Gilley, a pharmacist focused on food as medicine and navigating patients through living, aging, and dying.

Should we start exercising to decrease the number of medications we need or decrease the number of medications we are on to help us increase or exercising? Join Donna Bartlett & Kevin Walker, PharmD and their expert guest, Janet Huehls, MS, clinical exercise physiologist, to learn more!

We often think of large pharmaceutical companies having only one goal, have more people take more drugs, but that is not always true. Join Kevin Walker, PharmD and Donna Bartlett as we discuss some foundational topics surrounding the drug formulary and these specific situations with industry expert, Dr. Raymond John Veronneau Jr, PharmD, MBA, Senior Medical Science Liaison.

Join Donna Bartlett & Kevin Walker, PharmD as they uncover opportunities & barriers to optimizing a medication list during admission and after discharge from the hospital. We have hospital pharmacist and associate professor of pharmacy practice at MCPHS University, Dr. Jayne Lepage, coming on the show to give us her expert insights.