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Hospital Pharmacy Europe Issue 50 May/June 2010

EAHP report; Biosimilars; Drug distribution

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Comment: Anniversary Issue

50 glorious issues
Monday 7th June 2010
A trip down memory lane: now in its tenth year of publication we look back at the achievements of...

VANTAGE POINT: future thinking

Flexible thinking can help build for the future
Monday 7th June 2010
The changing face of secondary care is never predictable and this awareness is crucial to...

PHARMACY FOCUS: EAHP REPORT

Report of the 15th Anniversary Congress of European...
Monday 7th June 2010
Nearly 3000 participants attended the 15th Anniversary Congress of European Association of Hospital...

CLINICAL REVIEW: haemophilia

Inhibitors in haemophilia: treatment options and...
Monday 7th June 2010
Inhibitor development is presently the most serious threat to the effective and safe replacement...

clinical review: NAB paclitaxel

NAB paclitaxel in the treatment of metastatic disease
Tuesday 8th June 2010
Metastatic breast cancer survival rates are improving with advances in methods of staging,...

CLINICAL REVIEW: multiple sclerosis

The treatment for multiple sclerosis: emerging oral drugs
Tuesday 8th June 2010
Oral treatment may not replace all injectable therapies for multiple sclerosis (MS) but they will...

clinical review: antiplatelet agents

Prasugrel and clopidogrel
Tuesday 8th June 2010
The antiplatelet agents prasugrel and clopidogrel both have useful properties and can play a...

clinical review: colony-stimulating factors

Use of CSFs in the prophylaxis and treatment of febrile...
Tuesday 8th June 2010
The use of colony-stimulating factors (CSF) allows for better management of the chemotherapy by...

clinical review: cancer stem cells

Cancer stem cells as new approach to cancerogenesis and...
Tuesday 8th June 2010
The cancer stem cells (CSC) model of tumourigenesis has the potential to revolutionise radically...

CLINICAL REVIEW: biosimilars

Clinical review: CINV

Chemotherapy induced emesis: pathophysiology and prevention
Tuesday 8th June 2010
Prevention of emesis is a prioritry point and efforts should be made to ensure that optimal...

clinical review: erythropoietin stimulating agents

Risks and benefits of erythropoietin stimulating agents in...
Wednesday 9th June 2010
Despite all the negative publicity surrounding ESAs patients can still derive benefit from them if...

clinical review: Invasive fungal disease

Antifungal prophylaxis in haemato-oncology patients-from...
Wednesday 9th June 2010
As fungal infection increasingly spreads beyond our oncology and intensive care units into more...

POLICY & PRACTICE: SHARPS DISPOSALS

Sharp thinking
Wednesday 9th June 2010
The hospital pharmacist can play a pivotal role as gate-keeper to ensure the safe use and disposal...

POLICY & PRACTICE: PATIENT SAFETY

Protecting patients - pharmacists leading safe use of...
Wednesday 9th June 2010
The hospital based pharmacy has a responsibility for safe use of medicines that goes beyond the...

policy & practice: myelosuppression

Management of myelosuppression in cancer patients
Wednesday 9th June 2010
New generation chemotherapy agents have the potential to cause problems with the production of...

policy & practice: anticancer agents

Fixed dose versus patient specific dosing of anticancer...
Wednesday 9th June 2010
Since the number of patients being treated for cancer increases as we live longer it is in all our...

technology update: closed system transfer devices

Microbiological integrity of transfer devices
Wednesday 9th June 2010
Recent research shows that closed system transfer devices used for preparation of cytotoxic...

TECHNOLOGY UPDATE: DRUG DISTRIBUTION

Unit dose drug distribution in Europe
Wednesday 9th June 2010
Deblistering of tablets and capsules in order to repackage them as fully labelled unit doses could...

Technology update: cytotoxic handling

Handling cytotoxic drugs
Wednesday 9th June 2010
Educating healthcare workers about the risks associated with handling cytotoxic drugs not only...

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