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Digitalis Could Be Safe In Diastolic Heart Failure

...y used in heart failure. Some experts believe that prescribing it in diastolic heart failure is contraindicated. ...t also does no net harm. There is no need to avoid prescribing it, such as for atrial fibrillation, though other newer drugs are often used first." Contact: Karen...

Naloxone Prevents Heroin Overdose

...n addicts. Hence many needle exchange programs are prescribing this drug to heroin addicts.// The news follows the deaths of at least 400 people who have consumed heroin laced with fentanyl. Prevention Point Philadelphia, a nonprofit organization responsible for needle exchange program in the city has started ...

Drug Denial may Leave Several Thousands Blind

...tment of Health. 'There is no restriction on the prescribing of any drug, within its licensed indications, whil..., local NHS organisations should develop their own prescribing policies.' <br...

Doctors Wary after Shipman Affair

...er of GPs saying that they were more worried about prescribing pain relief in case of accidental overdoes to terminally ill patients. In addition it was found that a third of GPs have increased their referrals to hospitals, hospices and specialized teams, although half report that there has been no change to t...

Drug Advertising needs to be Limited

...the pros and cons of prescription drug uses before prescribing them, and will be better able to determine when they are best suited for their patients' medical needs.' A drug industry group has said that it shared the AMA's goal of educating the public which was proved by last year's agreement among manufact...

Medication Errors Affect Leukemia Treatment In Children

...ticularly in children. These mistakes can occur in prescribing by physicians, during interpretation and processin...inistered to the patient, and 5 were attributed to prescribing errors – that is, incorrect dosages. There were no dispensing errors by a pharmacy. Though there w...

A New System to Displace False Prescription Claims

... Paul Simpson, said "EPES is about modernizing the prescribing and dispensing process to improve patient safety, reduce administration costs and reduce fraud in the provision of health care in Northern Ireland." ...

Paper Prescriptions Give Way to e-Prescriptions in Northern Ireland

...id: "In essence, the EPES is about modernising the prescribing and dispensing process to improve patient safety, lower administration costs and reduce fraud in the provision of health care in Northern Ireland." In England, the NHS had proposed the delivery of an electronic prescription service as part of its ...

Failing Heart Failure Patients

...tients, but it is not known whether evidence-based prescribing occurs in Australian teaching hospitals. Of the ...ore be encouraged. However he noted that the low prescribing rates may be explained by concerns over low blood pressure and greater clinical instability in patie...

MRSA - more prevalent than ever

...octors are advised to culture the infection before prescribing antibiotics but most of them just assume that the staph strain causing the infection will be susceptible to routine antibiotics, says M. Lindsay Grayson, professor of medicine at the University of Melbourne. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aur...

Eczema And Hay Fever Decline In UK While Allergic Reactions On The Rise

...id, 'Taken together, these patterns of prevalence, prescribing and healthcare use suggest a rise in eczema and hay fever in recent decades with a stabilisation more recently.' He further added that that the treatments had improved remarkably over the years and that might have contributed to the decline in eczema...

Many Medical Students Unprepared for Skilled Prescribing

..., warn doctors in this week’s BMJ.Evidence of poor prescribing in the UK is abundant, write Jeffrey Aronson and c... the sources of variability in drug response; base prescribing decisions on sound evidence; and monitor drug effects appropriately. Their prescription to improve...

By Targeting Specific Germs, Hospital Hopes to Improve Pneumonia Treatment

...biotics – whether it is under-dosing, over-use, or prescribing a drug that isn’t effective against the pathogen – hurts our ability to treat the next infected person because resistance can develop,” he said. Sorce-Newswise SRM...

Computer May Improve Pain Relief for Sickle Cell Patients

...riers often impede patient reporting and providers prescribing these treatment methods," she said. "Sickle cell-related pain, however, can be partially or totally relieved through deliberate use of medications and learned behavioral interventions, such as patient education." During the first phase of the two-...

Prostate Cancer Treatment Increases Risk of Diabetes and Heart Disease

...en’s Hospital. “Doctors should think twice about prescribing GnRH agonists in situations for which studies have not demonstrated improved survival until we better understand the risks of treatment,” says co-author Matthew Smith, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at HMS and a medical oncologist at Massac...

Increase of Cancer drug usage in England

...uncing the numbers that reveal huge differences in prescribing over a short time, i.e., from 2003 second half to 2005 first half. Charities and drug companies condemned that cancer drugs were not being extensively used in spite of getting approval from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence ...

Physician Communication Spotty When Prescribing Medications

... side effects or even the names of drugs they were prescribing to their patients. Yet these gaps in the patients’...tentially serious problems. “Even though doctors prescribing new medications should tell patients the name of the drug, why the patient is getting it, how to tak...

Opioids Linked to Worse Outcomes After Back Injury

...h chronic disabling back pain “must be cautious in prescribing chronic opioid medication, and be alert to the de-motivating effect such medication can have,” advise Mayer and colleagues. Despite their disability and functional limitations, “Patients found doctors who were willing to give them the opioids and, ...

Bariatric Surgery Patients Have Special Medication Needs

...ome of the necessary changes could be as simple as prescribing a liquid medication, which is more easily absorbed than a tablet or capsule, and using immediate-release formulations. The study also notes that patients could benefit from medications that are administered with patches worn on the skin, injection, s...

Free Drug Samples Influence Prescribing, Say One in Three Doctors

...e “gifts” would still influence the other doctors’ prescribing decisions more than it would theirs. Most doctors said they distributed the free drug samples to their patients to help them out financially or for their convenience. Less than two thirds did so because they felt the drug in question was particular...

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