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Include penicillin allergy history in medicines reconciliation to ensure accurate status, says RPS

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

They should then ensure that records are updated for any patients with a penicillin allergy label that have since successfully received penicillin without an allergic reaction. But once on someone’s medical record, the penicillin allergy label can remain for years without being questioned, they added.

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How to get insurance to cover Ozempic for weight loss

The Checkup by Singlecare

In fact, the drug often sees shortages due to high demand for off-label prescriptions for weight loss. Although some healthcare providers prescribe Ozempic off-label for weight loss, insurance often won’t cover Ozempic for these uses unless it’s medically justified and no alternative treatments exist.

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Long-Awaited Guidance on FDAMA 115: Confirmatory Evidence Finally Has Its Moment (to be Crossed Off the FDA’s Guidance To-Do List)

The FDA Law Blog

However, the two previous FDA guidance documents, released in May 1998 ( Providing Clinical Evidence of Effectiveness for Human Drug and Biological Products , available here ) and December 2019 ( Demonstrating Substantial Evidence of Effectiveness for Human Drug and Biological Products , available here ), differ from the new guidance.

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Pharmacogenetics: What pharmacists need to know

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

If these results can be integrated into a patient’s medical records, they can be used to inform the prescription of future medicines throughout that patient’s life. Gene 2019 Nov 15;718:144050 Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium. This does however present a significant informatics challenge.

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