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How to Reduce Your Chance of Medication Errors

Triage Cancer

Medication errors in healthcare facilities include dispensing the wrong drug or the wrong dosage, drug overdoses, and overlooked drug interactions and allergies. Also, pharmacists can select the wrong medication or wrong dosage due to confusion over drugs with similar names or look-alike packaging. Write this information down.

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The Ultimate Guide to Help You Understand and Treat Urticaria (Hives)

Olympian Clinical Research

The release of these chemicals may be triggered for several reasons, including: Food allergies. Children , women aged 30 to 60, and those with a history of allergies are more likely to develop urticaria. Not all allergy triggers will be avoidable, so be sure to have a plan in place for managing your symptoms regardless.

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FDA committee recommends AstraZeneca and Sanofi’s RSV prophylactic nirsevimab

Pharmaceutical Technology

The drug performed “extraordinarily well” in a variety of cohorts, said Nimish Patel, PharmD, professor of clinical pharmacy at University of California San Diego. Coupled with this, available clinical data shows that [nirsevimab] prevents a significant number of RSV cases, said Jackson, who voted yes at the 8 June meeting.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Coverage

XTalks

These companies include Moderna, a US biotech company which has formed a partnership with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Oxford University who has partnered with AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Pfizer. Italy is one of the key countries expected to really benefit from the stimulus package.