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Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs

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Workplace activity involves how healthcare workers use and handle the drug in the workplace - such as opening shipments, compounding, administering or cleaning up after use or spills. Oral hazardous drugs No crushing or compounding may be done in an unprotected environment. Consider having spill-response exercises or drills.

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Gulf War Illness: How can disease modelling aid the search for a cure?

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This problem is compounded when researchers are presented with a complex set of symptoms, with no easily identifiable infectious agent as the cause. Our academic partner Gordon Broderick, Director of the Center for Clinical Systems Biology, Rochester General Hospital, began to study this using a novel approach.

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Expediting innovation in the rare disease domain

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Every time a patient with a rare condition walks into a hospital, doctors face the probable challenge of starting from scratch. Moreover, after the passage of the Orphan Drug Act 1983, the FDA has approved nearly 500 orphan drugs, with 233 of them being approved between the year 2005 and 2015 alone.

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Black History Month: Celebrating Influential African American Pharmacists & Industry Trailblazers

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During this time he studied textbooks on the compounding of medicines and mastered his trade. Hughes began her career at Frederick Douglas Hospital Pharmacy in Philadephia. Sh e then practiced hospital pharmacy for 21 years in California before moving to a community pharmacy in 1971.

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How to Shrink Thyroid Nodules

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38] Berberine is a natural plant compound that has blood-sugar balancing properties, and also contains alkaloids that have broad-spectrum antimicrobial and antiparasitic properties, making it effective in helping to clear gut infections and overgrowths of pathogenic bacteria. [39] 2005 Nov;153(5):637-42. [6] 2004;239(4):536-543.