Special nurse-pharmacist teams might dramatically reduce conflicts in patient medication lists
(Medical Xpress) -- A study of more than 500 patients admitted to, and discharged from, a big-city medical center suggests that nurse-pharmacist teams trained to track down discrepancies between lists of drugs patients are ...
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Aug 03, 2012 |
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Study finds gaps in services for heterosexual men with HIV
Heterosexual men make up a small but growing number of people infected with HIV in Canada. Yet a new study has found that many of them feel existing HIV-related programs and services don't meet their needs and are geared ...
HIV & AIDS
Jul 27, 2012 |
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Frankincense as a medicine: Pharmacists clarify the anti-inflammatory impact of boswellic acids
Since the ancient world the aromatic fragrance of burning Boswellia resin has been part of many religious ceremonies. But frankincense can do much more: The resin from the trunk of Boswellia trees contains ...
Medical research
Jul 09, 2012 |
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New research links mothers' lack of folic acid with cleft lip and palate
(Medical Xpress) -- New research by medics at Trinity College Dublin suggests that folic acid plays a vital role in preventing a major birth defect. This is in addition to the established protection against neural birth defect ...
Health
Jul 05, 2012 |
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Pharmacist intervention does not prevent medication errors
(HealthDay) -- A pharmacist-delivered intervention does not significantly improve the rate of clinically important medication errors following discharge among hospitalized heart patients, according to a study ...
Medications
Jul 03, 2012 |
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New solution to reduce medicine errors in elderly
(Medical Xpress) -- Many older people at high risk of medicine-related problems are not receiving medication reviews when referred to aged community care services, new research has found.
Health
Jul 02, 2012 |
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No cure in sight for US health care costs
"Every time I see what I pay for me and my family's health it makes me sick," says Fiona, a 46-year-old mother of two who -- unlike some 50 million Americans -- actually has health insurance.
Health
Jun 28, 2012 |
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New tool helps decide what drugs to include in health care formularies
A new tool that could provide a useful framework for deciding what medicines to include in drug formularies is presented in this week's PLoS Medicine by the experts from Harvard Medical School and the University of Illino ...
Medications
May 22, 2012 |
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More doctors are ditching the old prescription pad
(AP) -- Doctors increasingly are ditching the prescription pad: More than a third of the nation's prescriptions now are electronic, according to the latest count.
Health
May 17, 2012 |
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Home telemonitoring by pharmacists helps control patients' blood pressure
Patients receiving telemonitoring along with high blood pressure management support from a pharmacist were more likely to lower their blood pressure than those not receiving extra support, according to research presented ...
Health
May 10, 2012 |
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GP Prescribing a good standard but improvement possible
(Medical Xpress) -- A major study of GP prescribing, led by The University of Nottingham, has found that while the vast majority of prescriptions written by family doctors are appropriate and effectively monitored, around ...
Medications
May 02, 2012 |
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University researchers to test new community pharmacy service
A new NHS community pharmacy scheme to help patients understand and get the best out of a new medicine is to be tested and evaluated by a team led by The University of Nottingham in collaboration with University College London ...
Medications
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Confusion about emergency contraception access common
(HealthDay) -- While most pharmacies report having emergency contraception (EC) in stock, misinformation regarding what age women can take it without a prescription is common, according to a study published ...
Health
Mar 26, 2012 |
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In-house pharmacists can help GPs reduce prescribing errors by up to 50 percent
Medication errors are common in primary care but the number of mistakes could be reduced significantly if GPs introduced an in-house pharmacist-led intervention scheme.
Medications
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Switching antiepileptic drugs could increase risk of seizures
The substitution of brand-name antiepileptic drugs with cheaper generic equivalents has been an ongoing point of contention among doctors, federal officials and people with epilepsy.
Medications
Feb 17, 2012 |
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