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Pharmacist fined for natural therapies
Sep 14, 2007 |
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A Tennessee pharmacist has received a $1 million fine for treating customers at his health-food store with juices and dietary supplements.
Doctor-pharmacist partnership reduces hospitalization for heart failure
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Thinking "outside the medicine cabinet" is paying off in Australia, where a doctor-pharmacist partnership is reducing hospitalizations for heart failure — one of the most expensive conditions to treat — researchers report ...
Health care disparities start at the local pharmacy, study shows
Aug 15, 2007 |
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Despite years of effort in reaching out to their local communities, the role pharmacists play as health care providers still remains unclear to the people who need them the most – elderly Americans with multiple medications ...
Home blood pressure monitoring plus Web-based pharmacy care helps improve blood pressure control
Jun 25, 2008 |
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Patients with hypertension who monitored their blood pressure from home and received Web-based pharmacist care showed greater improvement in blood pressure control than patients who received usual care, according to a study ...
Team-based care involving a pharmacist improves blood pressure control
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Patients whose hypertension is managed by a physician-pharmacist team have lower blood pressure levels and are more likely to reach goals for blood pressure control than those treated without this collaborative approach, ...
Clinical pharmacists can reduce drug costs
Dec 23, 2008 |
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Clinical pharmacy services can significantly reduce the cost of prescription drugs and save money elsewhere in the health care system, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Pharmacists as educators can improve asthma outcomes
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 24, 2008 |
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New research has shown that up to 90 per cent of people on asthma medications are using their inhalers incorrectly leading to poor asthma control, increased hospital visits and increased cost of treatment.
Risks of increased access to over-the-counter medicines may outweigh benefits
Mar 28, 2008 |
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The risks of increasing people’s access to over-the-counter medicines may outweigh the benefits, warn experts in this week’s BMJ.
Researchers design re-engineered hospital discharge program to reduce rehospitalization
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have designed a process to minimize discharge failures. The Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) program reduces hospital utilization within ...
Non-prescription pills draws controversy
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 05, 2007 |
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A new plan in Britain that would allow birth control pills to be available for sale without prescription has some area doctors concerned, a report said.
Emergency pill doesn't drop pregnancy rate
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 08, 2007 |
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Widespread use of emergency contraception pills don't appear to lower pregnancy or abortion rates, U.S. researchers said.
Lawsuit: Doctors reckless with drugs
Jul 29, 2007 |
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Doctors over-prescribed drugs at the California hospital that is home to the renowned Betty Ford Center for addiction, a pharmacist's lawsuit alleges.
Major study of opiate use in children's hospitals provides simple steps to alleviate harm
Oct 06, 2008 |
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Hospitalized kids with painful ailments from broken bones to cancer are often dosed with strong, painkilling drugs known as opiates. The medications block pain, but they can have nasty side effects. Constipation, for instance, ...
Pregnant? Get a flu shot -- but it may be a hassle
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- It's hard for pregnant women to escape the message: You're at extra risk from swine flu - it could trigger premature labor, hospitalize you for weeks, even kill you - so be among the first in line ...
Prescribers miss potentially dangerous drug pairs, research shows
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Research led by The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy has found that medication prescribers correctly identified fewer than half of drug pairs with potentially dangerous drug-drug interactions.
