The way pharmacare is implemented could contribute to the Canadian health insurance system’s transition toward a more contentious and unequal American-style system with heavy administrative burdens.
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Don’t be intimidated by the package insert that comes with your medication. Learning how to read it can help you better understand how drugs work.
Side-effects for this unproven and potentially dangerous treatment range from vomiting and diarrhoea to seizures and a coma.
Ambulance call-outs associated with the misuse of pregabalin (Lyrica) have increased tenfold in Victoria since 2012, mirroring an increase in prescription rates.
Current guidance is not leading to cost-effective practice.
Your guide to a public health crisis that’s likely to get worse.
President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency. But we need to do a lot more to prevent this crisis from escalating even further.
Doctors know that inappropriate prescribing can lead to antibiotic resistance. So why do they keep doing it?
The off-label use of medicines is not illegal and it doesn’t mean regulators have specifically “disapproved” its use. But there are a number of issues to consider before using a medicine off-label.
Have you ever been advised to take a medicine with food? How about taking a medicine with cola or avoiding grapefruit? Hundreds of medicines have food-related dosing instructions. With four out of five…
“It might do me some good and it won’t hurt to give it a go.” How often have you heard a phrase like this? Most people have naïve optimism about medical care. That’s the finding of a systematic review…
Hospitals and pharmacies around the country are facing severe shortages of essential drugs. These shortages can limit access to critical medications and compromise patient safety, resulting in serious…
Imagine being pregnant while having a chronic health condition such as diabetes, hypertension, depression or asthma, or being diagnosed with an illness while pregnant. Amazingly, your doctor may not know…
It should be no surprise that older adults are the largest users of prescription medication. After all, older adults are far more likely to have chronic health conditions than are younger people. It follows…
Here’s what I remember. It was 14 years ago, and I was a junior doctor working in psychiatry. Some colleagues planned a dinner as an end-of-term celebration and, despite reasonable incomes, they decided…
The call to abolish the prescription charge in England by the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin is the centre of great debate. Unsurprisingly so. The cost of making and buying pharmaceutical drugs is an emotive…
We started the week with a new proposal by the Grattan Institute to shake up the hospital workforce and allow nurses to take on more roles traditionally performed by doctors. But should registered nurses…
Testosterone prescriptions have expanded since 2006 due to promotional activity, a study in the MJA suggests. This has resulted…
Electronic prescribing technology could reduce mistakes made by hospitals in medication prescriptions by up to 66%, a study has found. The study of the technology in two hospitals found procedural errors…
Oxycodone prescriptions have increased dramatically over the past 10 years, replacing prescriptions for morphine. Researchers…
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Columbia University
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Thomas Jefferson University
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Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Florida
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Addiction Psychiatrist, Associate Professor, Monash University
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Brett Montgomery is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Bond University
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Medical Director of Opioid Policy Research, Brandeis University
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Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
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Research Fellow, Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, University of South Australia
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Academic Convenor, MAEVe ( Melbourne Alliance to End Violence against women and their children, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, MedStar Washington Health Center
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University of Oxford
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Professor of Public Health, Bond University
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Consultant Senior Lecturer in Primary Health Care, University of Bristol
