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Hospital pharmacists increasingly are pressed for time, and the trick for pharmacy managers is to find ways to improve quality and safety while improving staff efficiency.
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A hospital's drug information call center fielded numerous phone calls about finding forms and regulatory or accreditation requirements. While the call center experts were happy to help out it took up a lot of time they could have been spending on more vital questions about medications.
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The FDA has approved Relistor (methylnaltrexone bromide) to help restore bowel function in patients with late-stage, advanced illness who are receiving opioids on a continuous basis to help alleviate their pain.
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Pioglitazone and heart disease; ARBs manufacturers spend millions to show the non-inferiority of their products compared to less expensive, generic ACE inhibitors; some athletes turn to growth hormone because it is difficult to detect; FDA Actions
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Most of us dread the chief complaint of weakness. This nonspecific symptom engenders a differential that ranges from malingering to fatal, from psychiatric to cancer. The finding of demonstrable muscle weakness helps, but then leads to a confusing set of relatively rare diagnoses.
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The successful treatment of General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) often requires a combination of a variety of modalities ranging from psychotherapy, behavior modification, pharmaceuticals, acupuncture, and/or mind-body techniques such as meditation or self-hypnosis.
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The following article has two objectives: to provide clinically relevant information on the use of herbs in the treatment of breast cancer and to provide a context for their use. What follows is a distillation of some of the more effective botanicals, as well as some suggestions about how to use them in the setting of breast cancer.
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Goal: To determine whether use of homeopathic remedies amongst pre-schoolers is associated with any change in the frequency of use of antibiotics in the same age group.
