Oct 28, 2018
The current craze for probiotics in Western society is a multi-billion dollar industry. However, cautionary notes are emerging. At least one expert commentator has issued a caution, noting a lack of large, long-term clinical trials proving that probiotics offer...
Oct 28, 2018
Deprescribing is an important initiative to reduce the burden of potentially dangerous medications, and may be triggered in response to an adverse event, or initiated proactively if future advantages of treatment are unlikely to outweigh future harms. Exploring the...
Oct 26, 2018
Further insight into the analgesic potential of medicinal cannabis has been published in a recent report appearing in the prestigious journal, Neurology. 15 people with the notoriously difficult to manage form of chronic pain arising from radicular neuropathy pain...
Oct 26, 2018
Just how much evidence do we need? The clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of pharmacist input at the ward level have recently been assessed in a systematic review and meta-analysis… again. The results showed that regular pharmacist input was most cost...
Oct 26, 2018
Is aspirin alone sufficient for for venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis following total knee arthroplasty ? A question of great interest has been addressed in a recent study of 41 537 patients who underwent the procedures with monitoring for events extending for...
Oct 26, 2018
British researchers studied a huge cohort of 992 061 patients newly treated with antihypertensive drugs using Cox proportional hazards models were to estimate adjusted hazard ratios with 95% confidence intervals of incident lung cancer that were associated with use of...
