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Quick Response to Tocilizumab Seen in Rheumatoid Arthritis
ISSUE: AUGUST, 2010 Tampa, Fla.—For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), adding tocilizumab (Actemra, Hoffman-LaRoche) to existing disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) therapy results in significant improvements in pain, disease activity and inflammation as early as one week after treatment begins, according to research presented at the 2010 Summer Meeting of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. read more | |
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Pharmacists Help Boost Surgical ICU Quality Measures
ISSUE: AUGUST, 2010 Tampa, Fla.—The timing was perfect: In March 2008, just one month before the pharmacy department at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Ill., began decentralizing pharmacists to patient care floors, the hospital’s surgical intensive care unit (SICU) launched a multidisciplinary rounding program. read more | |
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A Sepsis Success Story
ISSUE: AUGUST, 2010 A team of pharmacists at the Medical Center of Plano, in Texas, describe how they were able to slash their hospital's sepsis mortality rate by more than 40%. read more | |
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PCI Antiplatelet Therapy Gets More Complicated
ISSUE: AUGUST, 2010 Tampa, Fla.—Genetics, comorbidities and other patient-specific factors can impact efficacy and need to be considered when patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are being evaluated for antiplatelet medications, according to a session on thrombosis therapy at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) 2010 Summer Meeting. read more | |
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The Case for Immunoglobulins in Chronic Pain
ISSUE: AUGUST, 2010 IVIG expert Jerry Siegel, PharmD, answers an FAQ: can immunoglobulins effectively treat chronic pain? read more | |
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Slower Is Better for Antibiotic Infusions in ICU
ISSUE: AUGUST, 2010 Las Vegas—Switching from the standard 30-minute dosing to a four-hour infusion of combination antibiotic piperacillin-tazobactam is associated with shorter stays in the intensive care unit (ICU) and reduced annual drug costs for critically ill patients, a new study shows. read more | |
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Study Highlights Risk for Fatalities With Methadone
ISSUE: AUGUST, 2010 A disproportionate number of opioid-related overdose deaths involve methadone, new research suggests. read more | |
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Multiuse and Multidose Drug Vials: Where Is the Liability?
ISSUE: AUGUST, 2010 In early May, a Las Vegas jury awarded Henry Chanin and his wife, Lorraine, $500 million in punitive damages stemming from Mr. Chanin’s infection with hepatitis C during a 2008 endoscopy. Health care workers at the clinic where Mr. Chanin was treated gave him propofol during the procedure, using a vial of the drug from which they had already drawn doses for another patient, and a reused syringe, too. read more |
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