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Pharmacovigilance deep dive: risk minimisation measures

European Pharmaceutical Review

RMMs aim to optimise the safe and effective use of medical products in clinical practice by improving their risk-benefit balance. She also has been conducting fundamental research as an academic in several universities, with her last academic position held at Harvard Medical School. About the author. References.

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Overdoses come in many forms

PharmD Live

New world of medication metabolism. As an older physician, back in medical school, we learned about certain interactions between medications; don’t take grapefruit juice with particular meds, and decrease doses in people with limited kidney function.

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Developing point-of-care CAR T manufacturing

European Pharmaceutical Review

After this incident CAR-related toxicity scales and guidelines were established to prevent adverse reactions. Prof Nagler received his medical training at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, specialising in Internal Medicine and Hematology at the Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, and in Hematopoiesis at TA University.

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Antidepressants and Suicide: Why Don’t People Think There’s a Link?

The People's Pharmacy

The drug was eventually outlawed, but only after thousands of adverse reactions and over a hundred deaths worldwide. ” “It would be disastrous if an antidepressant medication actually produced “obsessive, recurrent, persistent and intrusive” thoughts of suicide.

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