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Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need

STAT News

An algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a shattered left shoulder and an allergy to pain medicine. days, it estimated, she would be ready to leave her nursing home.

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How to Reduce Your Chance of Medication Errors

Triage Cancer

The Institute of Medicine estimates the average patient in a healthcare facility experiences at least one medication error each day – leading to an estimated 1.5 Medication errors in healthcare facilities include dispensing the wrong drug or the wrong dosage, drug overdoses, and overlooked drug interactions and allergies.

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Giving Back: Once a Lung Transplant Recipient, Now a Surgical Nurse

The Pharma Data

30, 2020 — Nurses are known for being kind, caring and sympathetic, but Brianna Fogelman brings an uncommon empathy to her nursing job at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. Though she had always planned to become a nurse, it wasn’t until after her transplant that it felt like more of a calling, Fogelman said.

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Best Over the Counter Sleeping Pills UK

Druggist

The second generation of antihistamines , for example, loratadine and cetirizine, which can also be purchased over the counter for the treatment of allergies cross the blood-brain barrier in significantly smaller amounts as compared to the first generation of antihistamines. Both products are pharmacy-only medicines.

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Lovima – Over the Counter Contraceptive

Druggist

In the UK, all contraceptive are prescription-only medicines which require a doctor or other qualified prescriber to issue a prescription. Lovima is the first oral contraceptive which has a status or pharmacy-only medicine (P). P medicines are available over the counter from pharmacies or registered online chemists.

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New Data Show Treatment with Lilly’s Neutralizing Antibodies Bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) and Etesevimab (LY-CoV016) Together Reduced Risk of COVID-19 Hospitalizations and Death by 70 Percent

The Pharma Data

Lilly has received feedback from front-line nurses and doctors administering these infusions regarding the complexity and time requirements for preparation and administration. Results from the Phase 2 cohorts of BLAZE-1 were published in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association.

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The Bone Density Solution cb | Blue Heron Health News

The Pharma Data

Doctors addressed the causes that they understood – but the causes they didn’t understand carried on uninterrupted. In the rush to give us drugs doctors lose sight of – or don’t even know about – the much more basic cause of what is weakening our bones. Modern medicine simply doesn’t address this inflammatory route at all.