Pharmacy Times Continuing Education™ Launches Hyperhidrosis Patient Perspective Video

Pharmacy Times Continuing Education™ (PTCE), a leader in
continuing education (CE) for community, health-system, managed care and
specialty pharmacists, launches “Examining Hyperhidrosis (Excessive
Sweating): A Managed Markets Update on New Treatments, Featuring a
Patient Perspective.” This video segment is a CPE supplement of The
American Journal of Managed Care®.

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“Approximately 365 million worldwide experience excessive,
uncontrollable sweating,” said Jim Palatine, RPh, MBA, president
of PTCE. “This patient perspective video features Maria
Thomas, founder of the blog MyLifeAsAPuddle.com, who will provide the
patient perspective to health care professionals about what it’s like to
live with hyperhidrosis and what patients need when it comes to
hyperhidrosis treatment options.”

Thomas is a writer, patient leader and hyperhidrosis advocate. At the
age of 7, she started experiencing symptoms of excessive sweating and
her condition was officially diagnosed at 21. She launched her blog in
2011, and she is on a mission to create hyperhidrosis hope and awareness
one drop at a time by empowering other patients affected by this
condition to use their voices to spread awareness about hyperhidrosis.

Thomas added, “I think it’s really important for doctors to invest the
time in this condition. It’s underrecognized and it’s undertreated,
largely in part because people either don’t know it’s a recognized
medical condition, or they’re too embarrassed, or ashamed to speak up.
So, I think if we all work together to even just start saying the term
hyperhidrosis, we can really take this to the next level.”

Designed for managed care professionals, pharmacists, pharmacy benefit
managers and pharmacy directors, Thomas’s video will provide an overview
of the pathophysiology of hyperhidrosis, daily living with
hyperhidrosis, treatment options, access to hyperhidrosis care and
impact on quality of life. The activity is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education for 2.0 contact hours and
is supported by educational funding provided by Dermira, Inc.

For more information and to view the patient perspective video segment,
click here.

About Pharmacy Times Continuing Education™

Pharmacy Times Continuing Education™ (PTCE) is a
leader in continuing education for retail, health-system, managed care
and specialty pharmacists. PTCE is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing
pharmacy education (CPE). PTCE’s print, online and live CPE
activities are designed to help improve the knowledge, competence and
skills of pharmacists so they are better prepared to provide the highest
quality of pharmacy care to the patients they serve and to the
physicians they assist as part of a multidisciplinary
treatment/management team. To learn more about the educational
activities sponsored by PTCE, visit our website at https://www.pharmacytimes.org/.

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