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EMA issues guidance amidst European medicine shortage

Pharmaceutical Technology

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published recommendations to increase communication and planning efforts in a bid stop the current medicine shortages becoming even worse. The EMA set up a task force in 2016 in light of issues concerning medicine availability and supply chain.

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

The FDA Law Blog

Houck — On November 4th, CDC issued its revised guideline on prescribing opioids for pain as an expansion and update of its 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline. 2022 Guideline”). CDC received some 5,500 comments from patients, caregivers, clinicians and interested organizations to the proposed guideline update it issued in February.

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How medical device sales teams can embrace digital transformation

pharmaphorum

By utilising automation, AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality), and asynchronous communication, salespeople can reach increasingly busy medical professionals who are juggling the demands of being on call and are fundamentally time-poor. Asynchronous communication. Automation. About the author. and Belgium.

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Antimicrobial Stewardship in Turkey – A Clinical Pharmacist’s Perspective

IDStewardship

We demonstrated that a pharmacist-driven antifungal stewardship program improved the quality of antifungal therapy and patient care in an institution where the use of systemic antifungals is restricted to the approval of ID physicians. degree in 2016 and a Ph.D. For my doctoral thesis, we formed an antifungal stewardship team.

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Too Much of a Good Thing? Unpacking the Rise of Polypharmacy in Seniors

PharmD Live

Understanding the balance between essential and excessive polypharmacy, recognizing its prevalence, and identifying contributing factors are crucial in mitigating its risks and enhancing patient care. Background The senior population in the United States is expanding rapidly. According to the U.S.

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The evolution of the pharmacist prescriber: a prescription for change

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

As hospital pharmacists continue to expand their roles, the ability to prescribe medications either independently or in collaboration with medical prescribers presents an opportunity to alleviate the growing pressure on healthcare systems while enhancing patient care.

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What's the Next Billion Dollar Pharmacy Startup going to be?

The Digital Apothecary

Put a bunch of pharmacists to verify and handle communication, and have automata hand the rest would make sense from a business side of things eventually. The authors went back and analyzed much of the past data using previous methods to estimate costs in dollars and reflect inflation for 2016 prices. billion and high end of $672.7