Drugs like ketamine can relieve depression symptoms, including suicidal thoughts, within hours, but they also carry risks that patients need to understand.
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Any pharmacare plan that aims to remove financial barriers to treatment and eliminate inequities should prioritize those who face the highest out-of-pocket drug costs, such as people with disabilities.
Three new studies show corticosteroids can reduce deaths in critically ill COVID-19 patients. But what about other patients?
When news reports tout a drug, people get interested, even if the benefits are unproven. Patient hopes, requests and demands can easily turn into real prescriptions in their doctor’s office.
Chronic pain is everyone’s problem. It’s costly, debilitating and, according to new statistics, increasingly common. Reversing the trend is achieveable but far from easy.
As coronavirus continues to spread, older adults face a challenge: how to get the medications they need without putting themselves at risk. A new national survey shows they aren’t prepared.
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Researchers are looking for ways to determine who’s most at risk for dementia and also ways to detect it early. A scientist who has studied low blood pressure makes a case for a link between the two.
Mothers are told to stop breastfeeding when taking certain medications – even if they won’t harm their baby.
The technology to identify pills is getting cheaper and smaller. That means it could also be used to test the make-up of illegal pills at festivals and other events.
Artificially intelligent drug design programs could discover new therapies for conditions that are difficult or prohibitively expensive to cure.
Lookalike and soundalike medication names are causing dangerous problems.
Before travelling, plan ahead in case you need to pack medicines for sleep, diarrhoea, malaria, pain or anxiety.
Medication usage has gone through the roof in the last decade.
A trial of methylprednisolone in kidney patients was halted recently because of safety concerns. But this doesn’t affect people taking the drug for asthma, arthritis or other inflammatory conditions.
A push towards prescribing generic medications rather than their branded equivalents, as flagged in the budget, may have benefits beyond simple cost savings.
Policy moves to benefit patients are now benefiting business.
Fingolimod is a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease. It is an immunomodulator, which means it works by suppressing the immune system.
A small study has found that pharmacists would consider re-dispensing medications returned from other patients if they were permitted to do so.
Irrational prescriptions are a major global health problem. The World Health Organisation estimates that more than half of all medicines are inappropriately prescribed, dispensed or sold.
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
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Palliative Medicine Physician, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine Director of Clinical Ethics, Duke University Hospital, Duke University
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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PhD Candidate, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer and Ethics Coordinator for the School of Social Sciences Science and Technology, University of Westminster
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Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, Co-Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, MedStar Washington Health Center
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Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University
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Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
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Clinical Lecturer, University of Michigan
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
