Next steps – improving safe use of medicines
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.
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.
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.
Kläre Bryant is an experienced clinical pharmacist who has specialised in dermatology. For the past nine years she run outpatient clinics at Liverpool University Hospitals for dermatology patients… read more.
There is now an interest group for specialist dermatology pharmacists and work is in progress with British Association of Dermatologists to develop suitable training. As Kläre Bryant, advanced… read more.
Kläre Bryant, advanced clinical pharmacist in dermatology at Liverpool University Hospitals, was a recently-qualified independent prescriber when she managed the switch to biosimilar infliximab for the cohort of… read more.
Almost three-quarters of antibiotics prescriptions to patients aged 65 years or older, and two thirds to Black patients, are inappropriate, according to a study analysing over 7 billion… read more.
Feedback from a satisfied patient illustrates the impact that good pharmaceutical care can have on dermatological disease, according to Kläre Bryant, advanced clinical pharmacist in dermatology at Liverpool… read more.
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