Important reminder: If you need a refill for your essential medication, go straight to the pharmacy (or use mail-order services) instead of contacting your doctor. We will be updating this post as states announce new emergency refill protocols. With fears of limited stock at grocery stores, business closures, and potential quarantine, people are in a...
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Prescription Fills for Inhalers Drop as U.S. Faces Medication Shortages
Lauren Chase Lauren Chase is on the Research team at GoodRx. Posted on May 18, 2020 Key takeaways: Popular brand and generic rescue inhalers and maintenance inhalers are currently in shortage. Fills for all inhalers peaked the week of March 15 right after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, but they’ve since dropped — by more...
Guideline issued for nonsevere, severe COVID-19 therapy
(HealthDay)—In an evidence-based guideline developed by an international team of physicians, pharmacists, researchers, and patients, published online April 29 in CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association, recommendations are presented for the treatment of COVID-19. Zhikang Ye, Ph.D., from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues developed evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for treating...
Pharmacists could be frontline fighters in battle against opioid epidemic
by Victoria Tutag Lehr, The Conversation When you stop at your local pharmacy to pick up a toothbrush or an antacid, soon you may also be able to buy an over-the-counter drug to reverse an opioid overdose. The lifesaving drug, naloxone, currently requires a prescription, but it may become available as an over-the-counter purchase in...
SYSTEM AIMS TO ALERT YOU ABOUT DRUG-DRUG INTERACTIONS
OCTOBER 17TH, 2019POSTED BY MATT SWAYNE-PENN STATE A machine learning system may be able to warn doctors and patients about possible negative side effects from drug-drug interactions. The more medications a patient takes, the greater the likelihood that interactions between those drugs could trigger negative side effects, including long-term organ damage or even death. For the study, researchers designed an algorithm...
Enhancing the way epilepsy is managed by engaging community pharmacists
by University of Washington The University of Washington’s School of Pharmacy announced on Thursday, Sept. 12, a collaboration with global biopharmaceutical company UCB to improve access to care for people living with epilepsy. This interdisciplinary project will explore ways in which community pharmacists can better support people living with this neurological disorder. The roughly 3.4...
Chance discovery could lead to breakthrough in battle against drug-resistant parasites
Posted Today Andrew Fraser did not set out to study parasites, but when his team stumbled on an intriguing finding he could not look away. Fraser’s team at the University of Toronto was testing a new method for unpicking how drugs affect the movement of a non-parasitic nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), which is used as a stand-in for humans A chance...
Velcro-like proteins keep cancer drugs inside the cancer
Michael Irving There are several techniques used to kill cancer, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but the really tricky part is doing so without harming the rest of the body. Cytokines are small proteins that could play a part in immunotherapy, but they’ve so far not been approved for use, given their toxicity to healthy...
Why Anti-vax Doctors Are Ordering 23andMe Tests
Naturopaths have long been obsessed with a gene called MTHFR. Now vaccine skeptics are testing for it too. David Reif, now a biologist at NC State, realized his old paper had taken on a dangerous second life when he saw it cited—not in the scientific literature, but in a court case. The paper was titled...
Paying pharmacists for consultations about vaccines would actually save a lot of money
Pharmacists are underused resources in the healthcare system. Despite going through extensive training they are commonly working pretty much as cashiers, while they have enough knowledge to provide consultations. For example, now scientists from the University of Waterloo found that a small fee of $15 could significantly boost vaccine rates, prevent approximately 2,400 influenza cases in Ontario,...
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