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How to Reduce Your Chance of Medication Errors

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Also, pharmacists can select the wrong medication or wrong dosage due to confusion over drugs with similar names or look-alike packaging. Lastly, nurses can give a patient the wrong medication, or give a medication at the wrong time. Be sure you get the right medication at the pharmacy. Medication Issues at Home.

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Healthcare is about profits, not patients

World of DTC Marketing

Maria has been an ER nurse in Southern California for almost 22 years. “Every day, I wonder if I’m going to call into my manager’s office and offered a package because I earn so much,” she told me. Some employees talk about how proud they are that their company has developed a vaccine for COVID-19.

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Philips on designing innovation and cultivating partnerships – part two

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Ties Kroezen, venture leader of Community Life Centers and business development manager for Philips Africa, tells us about the challenges present within the African healthcare system, solutions the company developed to help patients and providers connect, and how pharma can assist with delivering better care to African residents.

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Biden Outlines ‘Bold’ National Vaccine Effort

The Pharma Data

” He pledged to ramp up vaccination availability in pharmacies, build mobile clinics to get vaccines to underserved rural and urban communities and encourage states to expand vaccine eligibility to people 65 and older, The New York Times reported. The law has been invoked already, to important but limited effect, the Times reported.

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RECOVERY Trial Data Monitoring Committee Recommends Continuing Evaluation of REGN-COV2 in All Hospitalized Patients

The Pharma Data

REGN-COV2’s development and manufacturing has been funded in part with federal funds from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. and Roche will develop, manufacture and distribute it outside the U.S. .

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U.S. FDA Extends Review of Pfizer’s New Drug Application for PAXLOVID™

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It was developed to be administered orally so that it can be prescribed early after infection, potentially helping patients avoid severe illness (which can lead to hospitalization and death). Loss of therapeutic effect of PAXLOVID and possible development of viral resistance. For more information, please visit www.PAXLOVID.com.

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New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Positive Initial Regeneron Antibody Cocktail Results in Non-hospitalized Patients with COVID-19

The Pharma Data

Senior Vice President and Head of Global Clinical Development at Regeneron and lead author of the publication. patients under an Emergency Use Authorization, and we also continue a robust clinical development program.” and Roche will develop, manufacture and distribute it outside of the U.S.