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Analgesic plaster approved for use
Thursday 21st August 2008
Medicated pain relief plaster approved for use by Scotland's medical advisory board.
Fruit "can cut drug effectiveness"
Thursday 21st August 2008
Research finds fruit juice can wipe out the effects of heart and cancer drugs
Pain-reduction study shows promise
Thursday 21st August 2008
Duloxetine hydrochloride maintains pain relief in treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain
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Wednesday 20th August 2008
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Wednesday 20th August 2008
Drug speeds up stem cell donation
Tuesday 19th August 2008
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MEDICATION ERRORS
Redesigning clinical pharmacy services for surgical patients
Friday 1st June 2007
In a three-month pilot, a ward-focused clinical pharmacy team improved the quality of the clinical pharmacy service by eliminating “missing” medicines charts and streamlining the discharge process
Teaching medication safety to undergraduates
Friday 1st June 2007
Medicines governance pharmacists in Northern Ireland have developed medication safety training packages to fit into undergraduate medical, nursing and pharmacy courses
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CYTOTOXIC HANDLING
Titanium chloride smoke as drug vapour simulant – a critique
Saturday 1st December 2007
Cytotoxic drug reconstitution devices are designed to minimise the exposure of healthcare personnel to drug aerosol and vapour. The term “closed system” has been used (and abused)to describe some of these devices.
Combination rituximab in FL urged
Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Rituximab plus MCP "should become standard"
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NUTRITION
Nutritional support in children with cancer
Friday 1st June 2007
Correct nutrition allows more effective delivery of chemotherapy and radiotherapy by limiting toxicity and enhancing efficacy. This article describes the special requirements for this group of patients
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ONCOLOGY
Breast cancer drug trial axed
Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Organon halts five-year tibolone study
Oral vs IV topotecan: little difference
Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Study probes second-line therapy in small-cell lung cancer
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RPSGB past president Gill Hawksworth provides the latest news on the development of a new UK professional body
PRACTICE
The strange case of the Bulgarian nurses
Wednesday 1st August 2007
Looking at the bald facts of the five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian-born doctor sentenced to death by a court in Libya for infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV, you would say it could not happen
Doctors concerned over weaponised drugs
Thursday 24th May 2007
Agents are never "nonlethal", says report
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Titanium chloride smoke as drug vapour simulant – a critique
Saturday 1st December 2007
Cytotoxic drug reconstitution devices are designed to minimise the exposure of healthcare personnel to drug aerosol and vapour. The term “closed system” has been used (and abused)to describe some of these devices.
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