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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new initiative to fight drug counterfeiters. As part of the initiative, an internal task force will look into technology and other measures including better education of pharmacists to try to stop counterfeit drugs from being distributed with or deliberately substituted for safe and effective drugs.
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The future of pharmacy practice has become a focus for one pharmacy group, and the reaction from members has been favorable and enthusiastic.
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Zoledronic acid (Zometa) drug evaluation
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Off-label use of a drug is common in health care, but pharmacists agree that they must minimize the risk by relying on their clinical judgment and the standard of care.
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The American Society of Health-System Pharma-cists (ASHP) in Bethesda, MD, released in May a draft of the goals and objectives for pharmacy practice in health systems to be achieved by 2015.
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Although spinal injuries occur infrequently, a delay in the detection of thoracolumbar trauma may have devastating consequences for a child. It is critical that the emergency physican be familiar with injury patterns that may result in this type of injury.
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The breakdown of pregnant women inadvertently vaccinated in smallpox immunization programs is as follows.
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More than 100 pregnant women have been exposed inadvertently to smallpox vaccine since immunization programs began in U.S. hospitals, the military, and clinical trials, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.