Simi Pharmacy

Learning to be kind to your sciatic nerve

From time to time, a customer comes into SIMI PHARMACY and asks for a heavy-duty painkiller … “something stronger than naproxen or ibuprofen”.  To give our best advice on what medication will benefit them, we ask them what hurts and what kind of pain they’re suffering from.  A very frequent answer is “my sciatica is …

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Medication & supplements: the not-so-obvious links

I had a bad throat. Doc says: “Looks like strep.  I’m giving you amoxicillin … three times a day, five days. You’ve feel better after a couple days but finish the course.  And here … along with the amoxicillin, take one vitamin K pill every day.” I know something about medicine, so I tell the …

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Best protection from infection? Soap & Water

At  SIMI PHARMACY we keep a close eye on medical news and the news is: DISEASES EVERYWHERE. A fungus called Candida Auris is sweeping through America; it’s resistant to antibiotics and causes serious complications in people with weakened immune systems. There has been an alarming – and mysterious – hepatitis  outbreak, which is bad enough, …

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Remote Patient Monitoring devices lift pharmacies onto the ‘next wave’

Here’s an imaginary patient – we’ll call her Ruthie. She’s 70 years old, suffers from a chronic kidney ailment and is under treatment by a specialist – a very expensive specialist.  Because he’s one of very few doctors with experience in treating her specific illness, he has hundreds of patients which means that he has …

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Children’s vaccinations: we can do BETTER !

The CDC report on vaccination coverage among kindergarten students in 2021-22 is out and CALIFORNIA IS IN THE TOP 9!  However, WE CAN DO BETTER.  Who doesn’t want to see California at the very top … nationwide, all-round NUMERO UNO ? California’s best performance was in vaccinating children for varicella.  We stood fourth, behind West …

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