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A study published in 1999 showed that having a pharmacist on a physician rounding team in an intensive care unit (ICU) reduced the incidence of adverse drug events (ADEs) by two-thirds.
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Pharmacists now have another antibiotic to use in the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections.
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The Food and Drug Administrations (FDAs) Counterfeit Drug Task Force has issued its interim report outlining potential options for an approach to combat counterfeit drugs.
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These drugs recently received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA):
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Staphylococcus aureus causes 25% of nosocomial infections and is the most frequent cause of surgical site infections. The organism can be found colonized on the skin and nasopharynx and is transmitted via person-to-person contact or through inhalation of the organism.
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Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is an acute life-threatening condition, with an incidence of one to six cases per 1 million person-years. SJS occurs most often in otherwise healthy children and young adults; males are at higher risk than females.
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Observations of those patients recovering from Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Vietnam and Thailand who developed a discrete neurological syndrome led to a prospective study, which described the clinical features and associations of postmalarial neurological syndrome (PMNS).
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Use of veterinary vaccines has decreased disease and illness in animals, but inadvertent human exposure to these vaccines, in particular live vaccines, actually has the potential to cause human infections and illness.
