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“THEY TOO SHALL PASS: A JOURNEY THROUGH CARING FOR ADULT TRANSGENDER PATIENTS”
CLASS OVERVIEW
This CE will allow providers to gain a solid foundation regarding transgender healthcare and the skills necessary to provide healthcare for transgender patients in a safe, supportive and welcoming environment
EDUCATIONAL/LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Recognize and apply gender confirming and gender-nonconforming terminology to current practice
2. Review epidemiology of the LGBTQIA+ population
3. Design a welcoming, safe, and supportive environment for patients within the LGBTQI... |
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10th Annual Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolic Disease Conference
Presented by Continuing Education Company for over 30 years, our Primary Care CME Conference Series is designed to update primary care clinicians in rapidly changing therapeutic areas. This year, CEC is pleased to host the 10th Annual Diabetes, Obesity, & Metabolic Disease Conference to be held in San Diego, California at the Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter on April 25-27, 2025.
Program Objectives
As a result of this conference, participants will be able to:
Diagnose and identify ... |
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Updates on the Evolving Role of Multidisciplinary Care Teams for the Management of Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Target Audience
These educational activities are designed for neurologists, pediatric neurologists, global pharmacists, specialty nurses, genetic counselors, medical geneticists, and other physicians involved in multidisciplinary care teams for DMD management.
Program Overview
This enduring activity focuses on improving the care of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) with regard to effective diagnosis, referral, and treatment. Additionally, the faculty will aim to present stan... |
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Exploring New Treatment Advances for Acid Sphingomyelinase Deficiency in Adults
STATEMENT OF NEED
Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD) is a rare, hereditary lysosomal storage disease with multisystemic manifestations, including splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, interstitial lung disease, dyslipidemia, bone marrow and lymph node involvement, and sometimes neurological and peripheral nerve involvement. While the most severe form of ASMD, infantile neurovisceral ASMD, results in death in early childhood, chronic forms of ASMD have more prolonged survival but are associated w... |
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Current Standards and New Directions in the Treatment of Acquired Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
STATEMENT OF NEED
Acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (aTTP) is a rare, life-threatening thrombotic microangiopathy with a rapid onset and progression and a mortality rate of 10% to 20% with prompt treatment. Onset of aTTP is characterized by severe thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, and a constellation of associated symptoms including hemorrhage, neurologic and renal manifestations, cardiac abnormalities, and mesenteric ischemia (Joly et al, 2017). Survivors of f... |
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Penn Radiology Emergency Imaging After Hours (Online & USB Flash Drive)
Penn Radiology Emergency Imaging After Hours provides insight for imaging conditions where rapid response is required. An elite faculty guides learners with practical lessons in modality choice, image acquisition and interpretation skills for a wide range of clinical presentations. Selected topics in chest, neuroradiology, abdominal, pelvic, pediatric and musculoskeletal imaging are presented to ensure confident analysis, so the practitioner is never outside of their comfort zone. Worth u... |
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Elevating Patient Care: Early Detection and Evidence-based Pharmacotherapy for Postpartum Depression in Primary Care
Postpartum depression, or depression in women within 12 months of giving birth, is common. It affects one-quarter of these women, which is why current recommendations are to begin screening for depression during pregnancy. Left un- and under-treated, the mother, newborn, and family are at risk for relationship problems, psychiatric illness, and other consequences. In this 1-hour, case-based activity, developed by family medicine and mental health clinicians, team-based screening recommendation... |
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Anesthesiology Update 2025 - LIVE STREAMING or IN PERSON
The Comprehensive 2025 Anesthesiology Update
Cardiac, Regional, Office-Based, Thoracic, Obstetric, Neuro, and Pediatric
In the past year, there have been a number of very significant clinical changes that affect the practice of anesthesiology. This comprehensive CME program provides a special and timely opportunity for anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists and others with interest in the field to hear directly from world-renowned specialists and master clinicians about these changes.
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Highlights from PAS: Rare Disorders - Don't Miss a Treatable Disease
Target Audience
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of neonatologists, pediatricians, geneticists, family practice, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, genetic counselors, and other HCPs who wish to improve their knowledge and competence in identifying and managing patients with treatable rare disorders through NBS as well as other measures.
Program Overview
This activity will feature clinical cases where newborn screening (NBS) identified a t... |
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Sharing Real-World Experiences with New Rett Syndrome Therapies
Target Audience
The educational design of this activity addresses the needs of neurologists, pediatric neurologists, and specialty NP/PAs involved in the treatment of patients with Rett syndrome.
Program Overview
Integrating newer agents for the treatment of Rett syndrome into clinical practice can be challenging, particularly in community settings. In this activity, an expert panel will convene featuring a neurologist from an International Rett Syndrome Foundation (IRSF)-designated cente... |
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Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease " Understanding the Disease and Improving Treatment Adherence and Outcome
Target Audience
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of nephrologists, primary care providers, and providers who care for patients with kidney disease.
Program Overview
In the real-world setting, treatment adherence in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) can be a challenge. This CME program will discuss the diagnosis and management of ADPKD as well as strategies on improving treatment adherence. Patients’ perspectives on how to deal with... |
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Treating Obesity 2025: The Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine - LIVE STREAMING
Education to Optimize Your Care of Adult, Adolescent, and Pediatric Patients with Obesity
This highly rated Harvard Medical School CME course delivers practical strategies to optimize the management of obesity and its many complications, and provides the most up-to-date approaches to obesity prevention and treatment.
Highlights of the 2025 program include:
• Update on using the newer GLP-1 based therapies
• Comprehensive evaluation of the patient with obesity
• Precision medicin... |
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Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change - LIVE STREAMING
State-of-the-Art Approaches to Help Patients Initiate and Sustain Health-Promoting Behaviors
Lifestyle Medicine will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.
Overview
This immersive two-day course offers state-of-the-art strategies to guide patients to healthier lives. Education includes evidence-based strategies, tools and techniques to effect healthier changes in patients (and ourselves), including weight loss, exerci... |
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Gastroenterology 2025 - LIVE STREAMING
The Comprehensive 2025 Gastroenterology Update
This highly rated Harvard Medical School CME program ensures participants are current with state-of-the-art GI strategies and clinical practices. It covers recent advances and their impact on clinical approaches and on patient outcomes. Updates, best practices, and new guidelines are presented by nationally recognized GI experts and master clinicians.
Practical, Results-Driven Education
Highlights of the 2025 program include:
• The new... |
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Comprehensive Management of Von Hippel-Lindau Disease: Genetic and Oncological Perspectives
STATEMENT OF NEED
Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) is an autosomal dominant disease in which germline pathogenic variants in the VHL gene predispose individuals to specific types of benign tumors, malignant tumors, and cysts in multiple organs, including clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC), renal cysts, central nervous system hemangioblastomas, retinal hemangioblastomas, pancreatic tumors and cysts, endolymphatic sac tumors, and cystadenomas of the epididymis and broad ligament (NIH, 2024). ... |
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Occurrence and Disease Course of RSV Illness in Adults
Target Audience
This educational activity is intended for US-based healthcare professionals who care for older adults, including pulmonologists, geriatricians, and additional primary care providers (family physicians, internists, physician associates, nurse practitioners and other nursing professionals, and pharmacists).
Program Overview
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a highly contagious seasonal lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) characterized by cough, runny nose, sneezing, ... |
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Can You Diagnose this Patient with Edema, Pain, Abdominal Swelling, and/or Fatigue?
When your patient presents with symptoms such as edema, fatigue, and abdominal pain, what might you first suspect and can you reach the right diagnosis? Put your diagnostic skills to the test! In just 15 minutes, navigate through real-world cases and upon completion, hear faculty insights on the implications of your decisions along with rationales for appropriate next steps to aid in making a final diagnosis, as well as evidence-based treatment strategies. Apply the latest scientific evidence ... |
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DETECT" Advances in the Delayed-Onset of Type 1 Diabetes: Strategies to Improve Awareness and Care for the Practicing Clinician
Target Audience
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of Pediatric Endocrinologists, Adult Endocrinologists, Pediatricians, Primary Care Providers (PCPs), and Endocrine Nurses.
Program Overview
This educational program focuses on the early screening, detection, and advances in the treatment of early-stage type 1 diabetes (T1D). Through this enduring Grand Rounds session, clinicians will be able to review the importance and benefits of early screening, how to screen &... |
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Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: Introduction - Live Course
The Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: Introduction Live Training Course provides participants a comprehensive introduction to musculoskeletal ultrasound. This course is taught by leading musculoskeletal ultrasound experts and incorporates comprehensive lectures with live scanning demonstrations on upper and lower extremity applications for diagnostic and ultrasound guided injection/aspiration techniques. Extensive hands-on scanning sessions feature a 3:1 participant to faculty ratio with live standa... |
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Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: Introduction with Interventional Cadaver Lab - Live Course
The Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: Introduction with Interventional Cadaver Lab Training Course provides participants a comprehensive introduction to musculoskeletal ultrasound. This course is taught by leading musculoskeletal ultrasound experts and incorporates comprehensive lectures covering anatomy, pathology, and ultrasound-guided injection/aspiration techniques. Live scanning demonstrations are included for each upper and lower extremity joint.
Extensive hands-on scanning sessions feature... |
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Optimizing Cancer Screening With MCED Technologies: From Science to Practical Application - Module 3
STATEMENT OF NEED
Approximately 2 million new cancer cases are expected in the United States in 2024, with an anticipated 611,720 deaths (ACS, 2024). Screening is associated with earlier stage at diagnosis and improved outcomes (Kim et al, 2011; Plumb et al, 2016). However, cancers that are not routinely screened for account for 78% of all cancer deaths in the United States (ACS, 2024; Pinsky & Berg, 2012; USPSTF, 2024). Multicancer early detection (MCED) is a novel form of blood-based ca... |
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Advances In the Delayed-Onset of Type 1 Diabetes: Strategies to Improve Awareness and Care for the Practicing Clinician - Part 3
Target Audience
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of Pediatric and Adult Endocrinologists, Pediatricians, Primary Care Providers, and Endocrine Nurses.
Program Overview
During this program, experts will present overviews of the importance of early screening and staging for type 1 diabetes (T1D), strategies and practical pearls for screening and follow-up, how to intervene early with disease-modifying therapies to delay progression to clinical T1D, as well as ongoing ... |
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Mastering Suboptimal Treatment Response in nAMD
In this Master Class case, Dr. David Eichenbaum discusses the management of a 69-year-old White man with neovascular age-related macular degeneration who receives a suboptimal treatment response to initial anti-vascular epithelial growth factor therapy. |
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Mastering Suboptimal Treatment Response in DME
In this Master Class case, Dr. W. Lloyd Clark discusses the management of a 75-year-old Black woman with diabetic macular edema who has a suboptimal treatment response to initial anti-vascular epithelial growth factor therapy. |
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Recognizing and Confirming Potential ATTR in Your Patients
Target Audience
This activity is designed to meet the educational needs of physicians, allied health practitioners, and students interested in complex cardiovascular and thoracic conditions and those who care for patients with ATTR.
Program Overview
This activity will cover early diagnosis and intervention for transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR), which is critical, yet does not occur, typically as a consequence of the rarity and heterogeneity of the disease and limited awareness on the part ... |
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Navigating the Evolving Standards of Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Treatment: Exploring the Evidence on New Combination Strategies
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
The goal of treatment for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) patients is achieving the deepest possible remission, which typically involves aiming for minimal residual disease negativity. Frontline therapy for NDMM is evolving to include novel induction regimens with anti-CD38 antibodies, which have been shown to yield improved depth of response after induction. These new frontline treatments vary in induction regimen composition and use of transplant, consolidation,... |
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Geographic Atrophy Secondary to Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Innovative Therapies for Sight Revival
Multimodal imaging is key for the early detection and monitoring of geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Optical coherence tomography has recently been recommended by an international consensus to be the primary imaging method for the detection of atrophy in eyes. Once diagnosed, timely therapeutic intervention should be initiated with recently FDA-approved therapies that target components of the complement cascade. When optimally integrated into persona... |
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Podcast: Multidisciplinary Task Force and Position Statement: Mitigating Disease Burden and Health Care Disparities in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma
STATEMENT OF NEED
With the complex and rapidly evolving treatment landscape of multiple myeloma, it is vital that clinicians not only understand factors for informing selection of current and emerging combination and sequential therapeutic strategies, but also employ interdisciplinary strategies for reducing disparities in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma care. The development of novel therapeutic options has significantly improved treatment outcomes for patients with relapsed/refractor... |
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Inherited Retinal Diseases: Navigating the Future of Diagnostics and Emerging Therapies
The differential diagnosis and workup of a suspected inherited retinal disease (IRD) can be challenging, requiring the expertise of the multidisciplinary healthcare team. Guidelines released in 2022 by the American Academy of Ophthalmology provide recommendations and clinical genetic assessments for patients with IRDs. Genetic counseling is essential to help patients understand the genetic test results, their implications for prognosis, family planning, and therapeutic decisions. Genetic testi... |
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Introduction to Emergency Medicine Ultrasound - Live Course
The Introduction to Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Live Training Course provides participants a strong foundation to perform the core emergency medicine ultrasound applications as outlined in the most recent ACEP ultrasound practice guidelines.
This course is taught by leading emergency medicine ultrasound experts and incorporates comprehensive lectures, interactive case presentations, and extensive hands-on scanning sessions. All hands-on scanning sessions feature a 3:1 participant to exper... |
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Introduction to Critical Care Ultrasound - Live Course
The Introduction to Critical Care Ultrasound Live Training Course provides participants a strong foundation to perform the core critical care ultrasound applications as outlined in the most ACEP ultrasound practice guidelines.
This course is taught by leading critical care and emergency medicine ultrasound experts and incorporates comprehensive lectures, interactive case presentations, and extensive hands-on scanning sessions. All hands-on scanning sessions feature a 3:1 participant to expe... |
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Extending Dosing Intervals in Retinal Disease: Patient Perspectives and Clinical Insights to Guide Your Practice
Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME) are increasingly prevalent retinal diseases that pose significant challenges in ophthalmic care. While anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapies have greatly improved visual outcomes for patients with these conditions, real-world data indicate that many patients receive suboptimal treatment and monitoring, resulting in poorer visual outcomes. Newer therapeutic options have been developed to exte... |
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Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound - Live Course
The Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Live Training Course is designed to build on the knowledge base of experienced emergency medicine and critical care ultrasound professionals using the most up-to-date ACEP advanced ultrasound topics.
This course is taught by leading emergency medicine & critical care ultrasound experts and incorporates comprehensive lectures, interactive case presentations, and extensive hands-on skills training. All hands-on sessions feature a 3:1 participant ... |
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Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound - Live Course
The Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound Live Training Course is designed to build on the knowledge base of experienced emergency medicine and critical care ultrasound professionals using the most up-to-date ACEP advanced ultrasound topics.
This course is taught by leading emergency medicine & critical care ultrasound experts and incorporates comprehensive lectures, interactive case presentations, and extensive hands-on scanning sessions. The hands-on scanning sessions feature a 3:1 parti... |
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Prevention of Medical Errors in Nursing Practice
STATEMENT OF NEED
Medical errors are among the most common health-threatening mistakes that affect patient care, accounting for as many as 250,000 deaths per year in the United States (Makary & Daniel, 2016). Medical errors are considered a global problem; they affect as many as 20% of patients in primary and outpatient care and complicate a patient’s primary condition for which they needed medical attention (WHO, 2019). These errors can lead to adverse outcomes, such as increased mor... |
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Vitamin A & Carotenoids
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
For anyone pass... |
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Survey of 13 Vitamins, Deficiencies, Supplements, and Interactions (Home Study Bundle)
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
For anyone passi... |
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Partners for Advancing Clinical Education (PACE) and PlatformQ Health Education, LLC.
Target Audience
The primary target audience for this activity are Academic and community-based physicians and team members, including hematologists, hematologic oncologists, medical oncologists, oncology nurses, NPs, PAs, and hematology-oncology pharmacists.
Statement of Need/Program Overview
Bispecific antibodies are relatively new agents in the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM). Because of this, many oncology clinicians are unfamiliar with their mechanism of action and the adverse even... |
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New Guidelines, Emerging Treatments, and Unexpected Patients: Understanding the Challenges of PAH
Target Audience
This activity is designed for nurse practitioners, nurses, and physician assistants who manage patients with or at risk for PAH.
Program Overview
It is a deadly disease and there’s still no cure, but with treatment, survival for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) can be significantly extended. Although rare, nurse practitioners are likely to encounter this cardiopulmonary disorder throughout their careers, and need to be familiar with the multiple dru... |
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Thiamin (B1)
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
For anyone passi... |
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Vitamin E
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
For anyone passi... |
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Vitamin K
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Vitamin D
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Riboflavin (B2)
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Niacin (B3)
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Pantothenic (B5)
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
For anyone passi... |
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Vitamin B6
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
For anyone pass... |
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Biotin (B7)
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Folate (B9)
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
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THE MICRONUTRIENTS: Vitamin B12
Pharmacists are often sought after for guidance on choosing and using nutritional supplements. However, many current pharmacists did not receive comprehensive education on vitamins and minerals during their academic training. Even those who did may not be up to date on recent research that has broadened our knowledge of how deficiencies and excesses of certain micronutrients can impact health, as well as how these nutrients may interact negatively with specific medications.
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