May 31, 2018
Canadian researchers have recently added further confirmation of what many clinicians have long suspected. Among 67929 patients (mean age nearly 81 years), the percentage of patients who had filled an opioid prescription in the two weeks preceding a hospitalization...
May 31, 2018
The use of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors has recently been found to be associated with inflammatory bowel disease in patients with type 2 diabetes. Using prescribing data from 700 general practices in the UK, researchers observed that during 552 413 person years...
May 30, 2018
Apart from being a candidate for the study acronym of the year: Odense Pharmacist Trial Investigating Medication Interventions at Sector Transfer (OPTIMIST), this study, published recently in one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, confirms what is...
May 29, 2018
A serious reminder that not all products sold as “natural” are safe: https://www.jwatch.org/fw114217/2018/05/29/coagulopathy-cases-linked-synthetic-cannabinoids-top-200?query=pfw&jwd=000020140177&jspc=PA
May 28, 2018
The RGH Pharmacy E-Bulletin was a popular electronic resource published online for more than a decade. With thousands of readers around the world, the E-Bulletin provided concise, factual information on issues of current interest in therapeutics, drug safety and...
