New drug treatment Kyprolis® (carfilzomib) for relapsed multiple myeloma launches in the UK
In a clinical trial, relapsed patients treated with carfilzomib in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone lived 8.7 months longer without disease progression compared with lenalidomide and dexamethasone alone (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - February 16, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: *** Editor's Pick Clinical trials Practical therapeutics Oncology Patient care Research ASPIRE study carfilzomib ENDEAVOR study Latest News multiple myeloma rare blood cancer Source Type: news
Spectrila® (asparaginase) by Medac received EU-wide approval for the treatment of ALL
The pharmaceutical company Medac was granted a marketing authorisation by the European Commission for Spectrila® (asparaginase), to be used as a part of an antineoplastic combination therapy to treat children and adults with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - February 11, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: *** Editor's Pick Practical therapeutics Medical Devices Oncology Patient care acute lymphoblastic leukaemia ALL amino acid antineoplastic combination therapy asparaginase enzyme Latest News Source Type: news
BLOG: The evolving role of a pharmacy technician
I qualified as a pharmacy technician in 2008 and decided to leave my permanent post in Somerset to locum and gain some experience of working in a few different settings (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - February 5, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Blogs mental health pharmacy technician self help Source Type: news
The evolving role of a pharmacy technician
I qualified as a pharmacy technician in 2008 and decided to leave my permanent post in Somerset to locum and gain some experience of working in a few different settings (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - February 5, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Blogs mental health pharmacy technician self help Source Type: news
EC approves Daklinza for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C patients
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced that the European Commission has approved Daklinza for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (HCV) in three new patient populations (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - February 2, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: *** Editor's Pick Clinical trials Practical therapeutics Patient care ALLY-1 ALLY-2 cirrhosis CYP3A daklinza hcv hiv-1 Latest News P-glycoprotein transporter post-liver transplant Sofosbuvir Source Type: news
Management of Alzheimer's disease in the UK
The treatment options and considerations for the ongoing management of patients with Alzheimer’s disease as well as the estimated and fragmentary cost burden on the healthcare economy in the UK are covered in this article (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - January 29, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: news
Fighting antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and antibiotic resistance
Administration of antibiotics together with probiotics can reduce the risk of developing antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - January 29, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: news
Clean up medicines with a CHAMOIS
This article outlines outcomes of the CHAMOIS team. This clinical pharmacy service for vulnerable care home residents commissioned in 2013 is now an integral part of NHS Leeds West Clinical Commissioning Group medicines optimisation teams’ work (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - January 29, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: news
Hospital pharmacists’ contribution: a perspective
Pharmacists play an important role in clinical care and the manner in which such care is delivered is evolving. A way of capturing pharmacists’ contribution to patient care when not on the ward and which might have service implications, is presented (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - January 29, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: news
Role of the clinical pharmacist in the management of CF
This article highlights the essential and varied role of clinical pharmacists as part of the cystic fibrosis (CF) multidisciplinary team (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - January 29, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: news
The Falsified Medicines Directive
This article looks at the practical implications that hospital pharmacists across Europe will need to address as we near the implementation date on 2018 for the Falsified Medicines Directive (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - January 28, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: news
EU FMD: hospital pharmacy challenges and opportunities
The forthcoming EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) is mandatory for all hospital pharmacies in Europe. The three-year implementation period ahead provides an extraordinary opportunity to improve patient safety and realise efficiency savings (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - January 28, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: news
Right drug, right dose, right time, right patient!
With medication error rates anywhere between 5% and 40%, eliminating human intervention from the process of medication distribution could dramatically reduce the number of errors occurring, some of which can be serious or even life-threatening (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - January 28, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: news
Optimising immunoglobulin homecare services
As hospitals in the National Health Service face ever-increasing demands on their services from an increasingly elderly population, hospitals are induced to re-examine their models for the delivery of complex therapies (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - January 28, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: news
The nature of prescribing in the emergency department
In emergency departments in general, patient care is focused on the process that has led to the visit to the department at that particular moment. Guaranteeing patient safety and supporting the continuity care is the responsibility of healthcare staff (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Source: Pharmacy Europe - January 28, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Annabel De Coster Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: news
