Successful penicillin allergy de-labelling
Approximately 10% of inpatients are labelled as ‘allergic to penicillin’ but the vast majority have not experienced a true allergic reaction. Having a penicillin allergy label can results… read more.
Approximately 10% of inpatients are labelled as ‘allergic to penicillin’ but the vast majority have not experienced a true allergic reaction. Having a penicillin allergy label can results… read more.
29th EAHP Congress highlights Biopharmaceuticals are complex biological molecules that require careful storage and handling to ensure medication integrity. They are especially sensitive to mechanical stress and shaking,… read more.
Patients who have been treated for heart failure and experience an improvement of their pump function, are still at higher risk of heart-related death or hospitalisation if they… read more.
Pharmacist Deborah Evans runs a weight-management clinic at Remedi Health in Winchester. She has helped many people to lose weight and improve their health using the GLP-1 receptor… read more.
People who take over-the-counter pain relievers after a concussion may recover faster than those who do not take pain relievers, according to a preliminary study released today, March… read more.
Generic drugs manufactured in India are linked to significantly more “severe adverse events” for patients who use them than equivalent drugs produced in the United States, a new… read more.
In the face of the alarming number of opioid-related deaths in the U.S., there have been national efforts to increase emergency clinician prescribing of buprenorphine, a medication used… read more.
Approximately half of all Americans do not take their medication as prescribed by their doctor. This medication non-adherence causes an estimated 125,000 additional deaths and as much as $300 billion a… read more.
Cindy Williams, Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer at Riverside Health, Virginia, USA, is leading a multidisciplinary project to implement medication delivery by drone in order to improve… read more.
Much has been learned in the process of developing the drone-delivery scheme. Routine deliveries of medications have been made every 90 days to project patients for 18 months… read more.
In this pilot project, deliveries of medicines were made to individuals in single-family homes; the medicines were packaged in purpose-designed boxes and the recipients had to agree to… read more.
The drone delivery service had to operate within a number of ‘guard-rails’ including restrictions on the types of medicines that could be carried and the suitability of destinations. … read more.
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