In-house pharmacists essential for aged care
Medicines are the most common treatments used in healthcare, especially for older people. But when they’re not used correctly, they can cause serious and sometimes fatal outcomes. Now, new… read more.
Medicines are the most common treatments used in healthcare, especially for older people. But when they’re not used correctly, they can cause serious and sometimes fatal outcomes. Now, new… read more.
Hearing loss due to aging, noise and certain cancer therapy drugs and antibiotics has been irreversible because scientists have not been able to reprogram existing cells to develop… read more.
A recent newspaper article drew attention to the increased risks of birth defects in children of mothers who have taken sodium valproate during pregnancy. In this series of… read more.
The video-based medicines information project at Central & North West London (CNWL) NHS Foundation Trust builds on input from patients and carers and could be put to wider use,… read more.
Drug misuse is not exclusive to the opioid epidemic, according to a recent West Virginia Universitystudy. Every year, about 50,000 people in the United States are admitted to the… read more.
Emotionally engaging valproate information videos that can be accessed via QR codes have been developed in collaboration with patients and carers at Central & North West London (CNWL)… read more.
Legalization of recreational marijuana reduces demand for costly prescription drugs through state Medicaid programs, according to an analysis by a Cornell researcher and a collaborator. When states legalize… read more.
The pregnancy prevention programme is critical for women who have to take valproate during pregnancy and it is bolstered by a battery of other measures, according Yogita Dawda,… read more.
Seven hours is the ideal amount of sleep for people in their middle age and upwards, with too little or too much little sleep associated with poorer cognitive… read more.
A recent newspaper article drew attention to the increased risks of birth defects in children of mothers who have taken sodium valproate during pregnancy. IMI spoke to experienced… read more.
Despite the ability of any Michigan pharmacy to dispense medication to combat opioid overdose without writing prescriptions, slightly more than half of pharmacies in the state offer the… read more.
The European Medicine Agency’s key expert body – the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) – has recommended that four medicines be approved in the EU…. read more.
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