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Manual IV Compounding – a Potential Recipe for Disaster?

Omnicell

Dennis Killian, PharmD, PhD Vice President of Clinical Operations, TidalHealth Early on in my hospital pharmacy career, I had the pleasure of working with several tenured pharmacy leaders who were winding down their careers as staff pharmacists. One of these pharmacists had served as the CEO for a local hospital.

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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 JAMA 2016; 316(20): 2115-25.) The side effects can compound, resulting in a greater negative impact on a patient’s health than the individual effects of one medication alone.

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10 home remedies for a cough

The Checkup by Singlecare

“There are a few studies that show that honey decreases coughing and is a safe option,” says Dean Blumberg, MD , the chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento, California. You can mix honey with hot milk, warm lemon water, or tea to relieve coughing. Evidence of effectiveness is limited.

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Is There a Benefit from Cranberry Pills?

The People's Pharmacy

There were only about eight or nine antibiotics left that I could take, and some had to be administered by IV in a hospital, with no guarantee of a cure. Women have long believed that cranberry juice can help prevent painful urinary tract infections such as cystitis. She explained that some people’s bladders become colonized with bacteria.

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14 remedies to get rid of congestion

The Checkup by Singlecare

Inhale steam “Breathing in steam hydrates dry nasal cavities and sinuses, loosening any mucus and secretions,” says Robert Glatter, MD , a board-certified emergency medicine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Garlic Garlic does contain anti-inflammatory compounds that, in theory, might reduce congestion.

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Clinical service provision and workforce capacity require improvement in hospital pharmacy, EAHP finds

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Progress needs to be made to support the development of hospital pharmacists in clinical service provision, according to the findings of a recent report published by the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP). Similar findings were observed in previous iterations of the survey in 2016, 2017/18 and 2018/19.

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Employee Spotlight: Paula Styer Pharmacy Technician

indispensable health

Paula : I do, primarily I am a compounder, that is how I started out. I am manipulating something for an end product and that’s what I like about compounding - the end product, and [the process of] coming to it. I had been working at a pharmacy in Flint as a technician for about three years doing chemotherapy compounding.