UK Study Wants Uniformity in Child Heart Drug Doses
... Hospital in Leicester, found only four pharmacies dispensed captopril tablets for crushing and dissolving in water. The other 22 used nine different liquid formulations of the drug, which came from a variety of sources. Only three specialist centers used the same liquid formulations as their referring hosp...Pharmacists' Workload Contributes To Errors
...mber of potentially harmful drug-drug interactions dispensed by each pharmacy was 32.1. The pharmacies employ...ed with an increase in the number of prescriptions dispensed for medications that could interact. “It appears that prescription volume is exceeding capacity an...Queensland- Sunny Side Up Please
...d out to patients. In 2005-2006 the State’s G.Ps dispensed nearly 4.2 million anti-depressant prescriptions- to the extent that anti -depressant scripts make up for 11% of prescriptions issued in Australia. Jenny Hargreaves, from the institute's economics and health services group, said, "About 60 per cent...Researchers Develop Material That Self Heals Like Human Skin
...The process employed a concentrated polymeric ink, dispensed as a continuous filament, to fabricate a three-dimensional structure, layer by layer. Once the scaffold was produced, it was surrounded with an epoxy resin. After curing, the resin was heated and the ink which liquefied was extracted, leaving beh...Travelers Beware: Is Your Medicine Really What the Doctor Ordered?
...ption in order to double-check that the drug being dispensed is actually the drug prescribed. Taking these precautions prior to purchasing medicine can prevent serious health injuries....40 Percent of Community Pharmacists Dispensed Off-label Drug
Forty per cent of community pharmacists have dispensed an off-label drug to a child in the last month, ac...the prescription they had written would have to be dispensed off-label outside the terms of the drugs product license only 66 per cent felt they had a similar ...