Apr 10, 2018
Many health workers will have encountered push-back from consumers after advocating flu vaccination to them. Needle-phobia, forgetfulness, and other factors are invoked as reasons not to have the vaccination. Survivor bias plays a role – “I didn’t...
Apr 6, 2018
THE US FDA is examining the potential misuse and abuse of gabapentinoids: gabapentin pregabalin. These drugs are increasingly used for the management of various neuropathic pain conditions. Trending data suggest possible patterns consistent with abuse of these drugs....
Apr 5, 2018
For any people who somehow defy evidence to doubt whether vaccines actually work … https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-pertussis-resurgence/
Apr 5, 2018
Sometimes people seek a way to determined whether a specific clinical event is likely to reflect an underlying adverse drug reaction. This can be important for a variety of reasons, primarily to prevent inadvertent re-exposure of a patient to a drug treatment that has...
Apr 5, 2018
Deprescribing has rightly become an important topic for consideration on modern therapeutics. As well as the important and serious side, some have taken a light-hearted look at the...
