Accurate, Complete Data Entry Is Key to Medication Safety
Pharmacy Times
APRIL 24, 2024
Carefully checking every piece of information and proofreading for accuracy is crucial to ensure patient safety
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Optimizing Bispecific Antibodies in Multiple Myeloma for Efficacy, Safety
Drug Topics
APRIL 25, 2024
A Q&A with Kirollos Hanna, PharmD, director of pharmacy at Minnesota Oncology, on the current and future landscape of bispecific antibodies in myeloma treatment.
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Addressing Burnout: Why Psychological Safety Matters at Work
Pharmacy Times
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Psychological safety substantially contributes to team effectiveness, learning, employee retention, and—most critically—better decisions and better performance.
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FDA should remain the authority on the safety and effectiveness of medicines
PhRMA
APRIL 12, 2023
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to determine the safety and effectiveness of new medicines. Recent district court rulings set an alarming precedent that calls into question the authority of the U.S.
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It’s Patient Safety Awareness Week 2024!
OctariusRx
MARCH 11, 2024
It’s patient safety awareness week and the OctariusRx team is excited to spread the word and recognize ongoing efforts to make patients safer. Since patient safety is one of our core values, every day of the year is patient safety day for our team. Safe medication management enhances patient safety and improves outcomes.
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RPS updates patient safety professional standards to reflect pharmacy evolution
Hospital Pharmacy Europe
APRIL 25, 2024
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has published updated patient safety professional standards to reflect legislative, regulatory and national developments since the standards’ previous iteration in 2016. To support the publication of the updated patient safety professional standards, the RPS has launched a resources page.
Securing the future: Innovating pharmaceutical supply chain for resilience and safety
pharmaphorum
APRIL 2, 2024
Explore the innovative use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in securing the pharmaceutical supply chain for resilience and safety. Learn how cutting-edge technology is shaping the future of pharmaceutical logistics.
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Balancing Health Tech Innovation With Safety: Navigating the Intersection of AI and Patient Care
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 1, 2024
Although regulation takes time, real safety concerns for patients in the rapid development of AI technology in health care are present today.
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STAT+: Grocers are pushing legislation they claim would enhance food safety. Advocates say it would gut FDA rules
STAT
APRIL 16, 2024
” The lobby representing food retailers has applauded the bill, claiming it “enhances food safety.” Last month, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House introduced the “Food Traceability Enhancement Act.” ” There’s just one problem: The bill, according to experts, does the opposite.
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Drug safety update says fluoroquinolone antibiotics should be last resort
Hospital Pharmacy Europe
JANUARY 24, 2024
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics should only be prescribed when ‘no other antibiotics are appropriate for use’, according to a new MHRA drug safety update. The updated drug safety update followed a review into the risk of long-lasting or disabling reactions to fluoroquinolone antibiotics.
Medication Safety Quiz 2023
OctariusRx
AUGUST 28, 2023
The 2023 version of the OctariusRx medication safety quiz is about to be released. Use our tool to help enhance patient safety and satisfy the regulatory requirement. Most facilities struggle with assessing medication safety but have a simple solution available they may not be taking advantage of…their consultant pharmacist.
Pacylex Pharma's phase one trial: Zelenirstat safety in heavily pre-treated patients
Outsourcing Pharma
APRIL 22, 2024
has announced the presentation of phase 1 safety and efficacy findings for small molecule drug zelenirstat for cancer treatment. Pacylex Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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Enhancing Workflows: Cost Savings, Safety, Collaboration
Pharmacy Times
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
A panel of experts analyze the impact of prefilled syringes on workflows across diverse patient populations, emphasizing cost savings, patient safety, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Driving Patient Safety With New Pharmacy HIT Standards
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 11, 2023
New standards from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs could drive changes that improve patient safety by optimizing drug therapy to reduce the risk of harm and improve health and well-being before a medication is dispensed.
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Optimizing Opioid Delivery for Patient Safety
Pharmacy Times
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Experts discuss advantages of prefilled syringes in opioid delivery—reducing errors, enhancing safety, and minimizing waste—while providing insights on optimizing dosage forms.
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New Epic, Press Ganey integration automates nursing quality, safety data reporting
Fierce Healthcare
APRIL 8, 2024
Patient experience monitoring company Press Ganey has taken its data integration partnership with Epic a step further, unveiling Monday an additional collaboration focused on nursing-related safety | Indicators and outcomes logged in the EHR platform will be pulled into Press Ganey's National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, which is used (..)
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Gene Therapy in Hemophilia A: Safety, Efficacy, and the Changing Landscape
Pharmacy Times
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Atta Chowdhry, RPh, and Robert Sidonio Jr, MD, MSc, discuss the safety and efficacy of gene therapy for hemophilia A, highlighting recent approvals, with insights into adverse effects, immunosuppression, and the evolving treatment landscape.
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Lawmakers grill VA, Oracle leaders over pharmacy-related patient safety issues
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
A year after hitting the pause button on a multi-billion-dollar health tech project at the Department of Veterans Affairs, federal lawmakers continue to have serious concerns about pharmacy softwar | A year after hitting the pause button on a multi-billion-dollar health tech project at the Department of Veterans Affairs, federal lawmakers continue (..)
Summertime Medication Sun Safety Tips
Pharmacy Times
JULY 27, 2022
With the vast number of drugs that can induce photosensitivity, patients taking any of these medications should receive safety counseling, especially during the summer months.
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CVS, Oscar Health and Geisinger join 25 other payers, providers to sign AI safety pledge
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 15, 2023
More than two dozen healthcare payers and providers, including CVS, Premera Blue Cross and Mass General Brigham, are making voluntary safety, security and transparency commitments to the White Hous | More than two dozen healthcare payers and providers are making voluntary safety, security and transparency commitments to the White House regarding the (..)
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Study: Substantial Deficiencies in Capture of Cognitive Safety in Drug Trials
Pharmacy Times
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Despite nearly one-third of reversible dementia cases being drug induced, cognitive safety is a neglected aspect of clinical trials.
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CSL Vifor proposes campaign to undo messaging about safety profile of rival product
Fierce Pharma
APRIL 19, 2024
CSL Vifor has proposed to launch a campaign that would undo the potentially misleading messages it sent about the safe | CSL Vifor has proposed to launch a campaign that would undo the potentially misleading messages it sent about the safety of a rival product, the European Commission (EC) said.
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FDA’s Drug Safety Priorities for 2023
BioPharm
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
FDA's Drug Safety Priorities FY23 describes the center’s key safety programs and activities involved in promoting and protecting public health.
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STAT+: RaDonda Vaught, nurse who accidentally killed patient, to speak at CommonSpirit event on patient safety
STAT
MARCH 1, 2024
The session, held during National Patient Safety Week, will cover medical error prevention and “systems thinking.” ” “She’s not doing the typical, ‘Use your notoriety to pay your lawyers.’
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Drug safety driving pyrogen testing market expansion
European Pharmaceutical Review
MARCH 27, 2024
However, due to the importance of pyrogen testing for the safety of pharmaceutical products , the report stated that this will help to drive market growth. Researchers propose novel test for pyrogen detection The post Drug safety driving pyrogen testing market expansion appeared first on European Pharmaceutical Review.
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Technology Tools Increase Patient Safety in the Pharmacy
Drug Topics
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
From automated medication dispensing systems to telepharmacy services, technology can help reduce the risk of adverse patient events.
Proposed Biosimilar for Denosumab Has Similar Safety, Efficacy as Reference
Pharmacy Times
MARCH 6, 2024
A phase 1 study previously demonstrated that MW032 and denosumab were bioequivalent in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, safety, and immunogenicity.
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Opinion: Kids can’t wait any longer for social media safety
STAT
APRIL 17, 2024
When my son Conall took his life at age 17, it was devastating to me and our entire family. Conall was a caring, empathetic, and bright young man, but he had also struggled for many years with anxiety and depression. Like many kids his age, much of his life revolved around social media.
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Considerations for safety data migration methods
European Pharmaceutical Review
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
In this method, Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs) are manually entered into the target database using outputs obtained from the source database. The list of non-transferable safety case data is fairly normalised for both E2B(R2) and E2B(R3) formats.
EMA Issues Drug Safety Reminders
BioPharm
MAY 17, 2023
The agency’s safety committee is reviewing hydroxyprogesterone medicines and issuing a reminder on safety issues regarding fluoroquinolone antibiotics.
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Three of the top 10 patient safety concerns directly involve medication management!
OctariusRx
AUGUST 14, 2023
Three of the top 10 patient safety concerns directly involve medication management, according to the annual report from the Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI). What steps are you taking to enhance patient safety and reduce your liability? What steps are you taking to enhance patient safety and reduce your liability?
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Amoxicillin for cats: Dosage and Safety
The Checkup by Singlecare
MARCH 27, 2024
The post Amoxicillin for cats: Dosage and Safety appeared first on The Checkup. To work, daily doses must be given for the full duration of the prescription. Sometimes, amoxicillin may not work. Contact the veterinarian if the cat doesn’t get better after a few days.
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Gilead's Tecartus gets revised safety demand amid FDA's push for CAR-T boxed warnings
Fierce Pharma
JANUARY 24, 2024
Turns out, the FDA didn’t drop the CD19 CAR-T from a classwide safety alert list. . | The FDA’s letter demanding a labeling change for Gilead Sciences’ Tecartus temporarily went missing on the agency’s website Tuesday. Instead, it's adjusted the wording of a proposed boxed warning.
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STAT+: FDA has some safety concerns about CRISPR-based sickle cell treatment, documents show
STAT
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it has some safety concerns about an experimental CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease, citing the methods used by its makers to evaluate the risk of inadvertently making unwanted changes to patients’ DNA.
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FDA launches wide probe into CAR-T therapy safety
pharmaphorum
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
FDA launches wide probe into CAR-T therapy safety Phil.Taylor Tue, 28/11/2023 - 18:27 Bookmark this
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Opinion: Improving patient safety shouldn’t be a financial calculation
STAT
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
“The safety movement has, at best, stalled,” an accompanying editorial acknowledged , while urging hospital leaders to hold themselves accountable to a “sacred obligation.” At larger institutions, the rate can be 40% or higher. ” Read the rest…
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Silence Isn’t Golden: Two Executives Convicted in First Criminal Prosecution Under the Consumer Product Safety Act
The FDA Law Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
In 2021, DOJ announced that the Gree Companies agreed to plead guilty to one felony count for willfully failing to report consumer product safety information as required by the CPSA. By Riëtte van Laack & Anne K. DOJ’s enforcement against the Gree Companies and its executives occurred in stages.
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Expert: Pharmacists Are Stepping Out of the Pharmacy to Educate First Responders, Parents, Teachers, Children on Drug Safety
Pharmacy Times
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Taking pharmacists out of the dispensing setting and placing them in communities as educators on drug safety is reaping rewards.
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EU probes low platelet safety issue with COVID-19 shots
pharmaphorum
MARCH 12, 2021
The experts have also recommended a safety update on the label of Oxford University/AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, which has been linked to anaphylactic reactions, in what has turned out to be a concerning week for vaccine safety. AZ vaccine safety update. ” Feature image courtesy of BioNTech.
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USP Expert Discusses Concerns on Biosimilar Safety and Efficacy Through Quality Standards
Pharmacy Times
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Foud Atouf, senior vice president of global biologics at US Pharmacopeia, discusses the importance of robust quality standards in addressing concerns regarding biosimilar safety and efficacy.
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Medication Safety Quiz 2022
OctariusRx
AUGUST 22, 2022
The 2022 version of the OctariusRx medication safety quiz is about to be released. Use our tool to help enhance patient safety and satisfy the regulatory requirement. Most facilities struggle with assessing medication safety but have a simple solution available they may not be taking advantage of…their consultant pharmacist.
ECNP 2023: new esketamine NS safety data for depression
European Pharmaceutical Review
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson has revealed that according to new safety data, SPRAVATO ® (esketamine nasal spray [NS]) has demonstrated superior efficacy compared to quetiapine extended-release (Quetiapine XR) for treatment-resistant depression (TRD).
Larotrectinib Subgroup Analyses Demonstrate Long-Term Efficacy, Safety Profile in NTRK Gene Fusion Cancer
Pharmacy Times
JUNE 2, 2023
Findings presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2023 meeting show the long-term efficacy and safety profile of larotrectinib (Vitrakvi; Bayer) in solid tumors with NTRK gene fusion.
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Perceived Vaccine Safety, Efficacy, Among Factors That Impact Demand for Vaccines
Drug Topics
MARCH 21, 2023
According to a recent literature review, various factors have contributed to a shift in vaccine demand, such as perceived vaccine efficacy and safety.
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