STAT
AUGUST 11, 2023
Nearly every hospital pharmacy across the U.S. And the problem has become so bad – especially for chemotherapies — that one-third of hospital pharmacists reported their institutions are rationing, delaying, or canceling treatments or procedures, according to a new survey.
STAT
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Pharmacists increasingly are being asked to make drugs in bulk for hospitals that are in short supply, and they’re even beginning to make chemotherapies. Hospitals’ reliance on pharmacist-made drugs, a practice called compounding, has risen in step with worsening drug shortages.
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Omnicell
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Dennis Killian, PharmD, PhD Vice President of Clinical Operations, TidalHealth Early on in my hospital pharmacy career, I had the pleasure of working with several tenured pharmacy leaders who were winding down their careers as staff pharmacists. One of these pharmacists had served as the CEO for a local hospital.
Hospital Pharmacy Europe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
They identified a total of 28 genes in 12 strains of chemoresistant cell lines each against cisplatin, 5-fluorouracil, paclitaxel and docetaxel chemotherapies. Unfortunately, there are lots of people out there who do not respond to chemotherapy or radiation. In Europe, head and neck cancers affect around 22 people per 100,000.
The Checkup by Singlecare
MARCH 25, 2024
In human patients, it’s used to treat vomiting and nausea due to cancer chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Veterinarians commonly use ondansetron for chemotherapy, but its use in dogs is “ off-label.” Nausea-inducing chemotherapy is a common reason veterinarians give dogs ondansetron. Can dogs overdose on ondansetron?
indispensable health
AUGUST 18, 2020
Pharmacists who work in inpatient hospital and infusion pharmacies have many responsibilities. Most of the time, I am working on review patient charts and find what interventions we can do to maximum efficacy of the patients' treatment plan to improve patient health conditions and reduce the time of hospital stay.
indispensable health
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Paula : I do, primarily I am a compounder, that is how I started out. I am manipulating something for an end product and that’s what I like about compounding - the end product, and [the process of] coming to it. I had been working at a pharmacy in Flint as a technician for about three years doing chemotherapy compounding.
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