Jun 19, 2019
Heparin‐induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a serious complication with a prothrombotic basis. Antibodies to platelet factor 4 and heparin facilitate a profound and rapid decrease the platelet count and a risk of serious thrombosis. Accurate diagnosis is essential in...
Jun 18, 2019
Optimisation of antidepressant use has remained elusive despite an increased range of pharmacotherapy options. A recent systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of double-blind, randomised controlled trials involving fixed doses of five selective serotonin...
Jun 17, 2019
Faecal microbiota transplant (FMT) involves the medically supervised and coordinated transplant of feacal organisms from one human to another for therapeutic purposes. This medical procedure is still in its early days, and first reports of serious adverse effects have...
Jun 17, 2019
For many years sodium polystyrene sulfonate, a cation exchange resin marketed in Australia as Resonium A, has been the mainstay technique for the reduction of the serum potassium concentration for people with significant hyperkalaemia. In a recent Canadian study,...
Jun 15, 2019
There continues to be grave safety concerns involving adverse effects of gabapentinoid medications (especially gabapentin and pregabalin), and in this context Swedish researchers have conducted a major pharmacoepidemiological study of 191 973 people from the Swedish...
