Benefits of non-dispensing pharmacists in GP practices

Researchers in the Netherlands have recently assessed outcomes from 25 general practices in a non-randomised, controlled intervention study to determine if integration of non-dispensing pharmacists (NDPs) has an effect on medication-related hospitalisations, drug...

UTIs and SGLT-2 inhibitors

Concerns have previously been raised in connection to the possible relationship between treatment with sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor drugs (e.g. canagliflozin and dapagliflozin ) and risk for severe urinary tract infections (UTIs).Recently...

High risk of recurrent VTE after anticoagulants discontinued

Canadian researchers have recently published a systematic review and meta-analysis which examined the rates of symptomatic recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) following cessation of anticoagulant treatment for patients with a first unprovoked VTE. Analysis of 18...

Predicting fatal outcomes after drug-induced liver injury

A team of American researchers has recently examined the association between co-morbidity burden and outcomes in patients with drug-induced liver injury, developing a multiple logistic regression model to calculate risk of death inside of six months. The model...