NEW analysis published in the BMJ reveals the UK gambling industry is mimicking the tactics first used by Big Tobacco decades ago to downplay the harms of gambling and influence […]
Researchers present the most comprehensive study on U.S. health care spending and variations across 3,110 counties by four payers, 148 health conditions, 38 age/sex groups, and seven types […]
Approximately half of all Americans do not take their medication as prescribed by their doctor. This medication non-adherence causes an estimated 125,000 additional deaths and as much as $300 billion a […]
Cindy Williams, Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer at Riverside Health, Virginia, USA, is leading a multidisciplinary project to implement medication delivery by drone in order to improve […]
A new blood test has an 80% accuracy in predicting preterm preeclampsia, according to a study published today, Feb. 12, in the journal Nature Medicine. The condition, which results in over 70,000 […]
Much has been learned in the process of developing the drone-delivery scheme. Routine deliveries of medications have been made every 90 days to project patients for 18 months […]
In this pilot project, deliveries of medicines were made to individuals in single-family homes; the medicines were packaged in purpose-designed boxes and the recipients had to agree to […]
The drone delivery service had to operate within a number of ‘guard-rails’ including restrictions on the types of medicines that could be carried and the suitability of destinations. […]
Background and Goal: Despite the removal of the X-waiver requirement, which once restricted clinicians from prescribing buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD), only a small percentage of primary care […]
Cindy Williams, Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer at Riverside Health, Virginia, USA, is leading a multidisciplinary project to implement medication delivery by drone in order to improve […]
A clinical trial comparing a one-page medication handout proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with an updated version developed by researchers at the University of […]
A national shortage in a common treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder was associated with changes in stimulant prescriptions filled for children over recent years, a new study suggests. […]
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