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You wrongly assume an 85-year-old woman is the correct patient because she answers to the name on the chart in front of you. You mistakenly fail to dilute a concentrated medication. You forget to ask what other medications an elderly man is taking before administering heparin.
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Charles River Laboratories International (Wilmington, Massachusetts) has acquires River Valley Farms (Minneapolis, Minnesota), a privately held medical device contract research business. Terms were not disclosed.
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It may have been frigid and gloomy outside the storied Hotel Pierre where the Piper Jaffray conference was held, but inside the jam-packed meeting rooms, investors heard that the state of the healthcare industry is upbeat and filled with optimism.
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As the 16th edition of the Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference concluded here late last month, much of the crowd had already departed, presumably for warmer climes. However, those still in attendance as the three-day gathering drew to a close were treated to an informative panel on the use of and emerging trends in diagnostics in the emergency department and intensive care unit.
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Alefacept (Amevive), produced by Biogen, represents a new drug class for patients with chronic plaque psoriasis. The drug was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Jan. 31, 2003, and became available on Feb. 3, 2003.
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Regular approval for another indication of imatinib mesylate (Gleevec) by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. The FDA has granted imatinib mesylate (Gleevec) regular approval
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Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has announced an interim final regulation for the Medicare Prescription Drug Discount Card Program.
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A combination of drugs is significantly more effective than either drug alone for preventing progression of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), especially in high-risk men, according to a study appearing in the Dec. 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Integrating new automated dispensing technology with an already established computerized physician order-entry system (CPOE) has changed the way pharmacists work at El Camino Hospital, a community facility in Mountain View, CA. Freed from most dispensing duties, pharmacists now spend much of their time reviewing patient information before drugs are dispensed.
