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...
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....
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...
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...
