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Wabasha

Blog: Ask a Student Pharmacist

Our hospital pharmacy services our hospital and ED departments as well as outpatient infusion (including chemotherapy). Our hospital pharmacy also houses our long-term care pharmacy that fills prescriptions and manages medications for our skilled nursing residents. Elizabeth’s since 1998.

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Understanding Biologics and Biosimilars Amid an Evolving Treatment Landscape

Pharmacy Times

Clinical Applications and Economic Impacts Biologics have significantly impacted cancer therapies by targeting cancer cells more specifically and reducing adverse events compared with traditional chemotherapy, Darkow noted. billion worth in savings in 2023 and $36 billion since the first biosimilar entered the market in 2015.

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Owatonna

Blog: Ask a Student Pharmacist

During the 3 years in Utah, Dr. Kosloski Tarpenning successfully set up 3 different ambulatory care practices in various outpatient clinics. She was then recruited by the Mayo Clinic in 2015 to set-up an ambulatory care practice at their Owatonna clinic in southern Minnesota.

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Solutions for Constipation Relief

The Thyroid Pharmacist

Chemotherapy agents: Chemotherapy agents can lead to constipation in a variety of ways such as slowing the movements of the intestinal tract or creating inflammation that disrupts digestive function. Take this month to recognize their expertise and the valuable support they provide in patient care! 2020;12(1):205.

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Unpleasant truth: the pandemic, record debt and our opportunity for sustainability

pharmaphorum

Due to the increase in cancer incidence, combined with the growing investment in disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, more resources are being spent in cancer than ever before, therefore cancer care has already been facing well known financial sustainability challenges. billion in 2015. In fact, an estimated 21.2

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Polypharmacy and ageing

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

A 2015 French study of frailty and polypharmacy concluded that frailty and excessive polypharmacy were independent predictors of mortality. Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) can be acute, delayed or anticipatory. The emetogenic potential of chemotherapy needs to be taken into account when selecting treatment.