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OSF HealthCare President Sister Diane Marie McGrew dies at 57

Fierce Healthcare

McGrew had served as president of the 16-hospital Franciscan health system since 2006, and also held longstanding roles on its various boards. Sister Diane Marie McGrew, president of the OSF HealthCare, died on Sunday. No plans for her succession have been disclosed.

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Study Results Show Estimated 2022 RSV Rates Could Be Twice as High as Previous 2 Years

Pharmacy Times

State-level respiratory syncytial virus hospitalization rates for 2022 could be the highest seen since 2006, analysis published in Frontiers in Pediatrics indicate.

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Spotlight On The Infectious Diseases Podcast Over 15 Years Old That Just Added New Mobile Streaming Options

IDStewardship

It was the dawn of the online streaming era, and platforms such as YouTube, acquired by Google only a year earlier (2006), were brand new. ID Podcasts’ platforms are entirely self-supported by USF’s Morsani College of Medicin, USF Health, and Tampa General Hospital.

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Is gabapentin breastfeeding safe?

The Checkup by Singlecare

A 2006 case report in the Journal of Human Lactation concluded that the infant dose of gabapentin was about 2.3% This is because very little of the medication crosses into breast milk and because it does not have any effect on milk supply. There is some available research on gabapentin and breastfeeding. of the maternal dose.

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From Healing to Harm: The Unintended Consequences of Polypharmacy in Seniors

PharmD Live

Every day, 750 seniors (age 65 and older) in the United States are hospitalized due to serious side effects from one or more medications.(Shehab People over 65 make up only 14% of the population but account for 56% of hospitalizations for adverse drug events (ADEs) (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AHRQ, 2021). Shehab et al.

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Introducing the new NIHR National Patient Recruitment Centres

pharmaphorum

Dinesh Saralaya has been a consultant respiratory physician and honorary senior lecturer at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2014. He leads the severe asthma service at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Respiratory Clinical Trials unit at the Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR).

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The 20 Key Moments in the 340B Program's 30-Year History

Omnicell

Interestingly, the 340B law was actually included in a veterans healthcare bill (the Veterans Health Care Act) that also established a separate drug pricing program for veterans hospitals. It also raised the DSH payment cap for some rural and small urban hospitals to 12%. 2006: Congress passed, and President George W.