- How to Personalize the Online Patient Experience (hhnmag.com)
Patients' experience of a hospital or health care provider extends beyond the physical walls of your facility: Your organization's online experience is also a key component of patient satisfaction. Personalization is a design approach that allows you to create deeper engagement and a more satisfying online experience for your patients.
- Here’s Why Authorities Searched The Offices Of Controversial Autism Doctor Bradstreet (forbes.com)
Jeff Bradstreet … target.. of a search related to an experimental drug for autism….The compound, globulin component macrophage-activating factor,..(GcMAF),… authorities were seeking…“evidence of a crime and contraband, fruits of crime, or items illegally possessed” associated with violations of interstate commerce…products that are “adulterated or misbranded”…
- Pharmacogenomics’ Integration into Practices (pharmacytimes.com)
Daniel Kraft, MD, chair of medicine at Singularity University and chair/founder of Exponential Medicine, discusses pharmacogenomics' role in pharmacy practices.(video)
- Oklahoma: Executions Are Set for 3 Who Lost Appeal Over Drug (nytimes.com)
Oklahoma’s highest criminal court...set execution dates for three death row inmates who challenged the use of a drug that will be used in their lethal injections.
- Teen Athletes at High Risk of Prescription Painkiller, Heroin Abuse, Reports Sports Illustrated (awarerx.org)How painkillers are turning young athletes into heroin addicts (si.com)
High school athletes are often overlooked victims of the prescription drug abuse epidemic,...young people facing pressure to play through sports injuries and then getting hooked on the high that painkillers would bring.
- Study links Prozac, Paxil use with birth defects (newsdaily.com)Specific SSRIs and birth defects: bayesian analysis to interpret new data in the context of previous reports (bmj.com)study...has found links between...Prozac and Paxil and birth defects, but has cleared...Celexa, Lexapro and.. Zoloft..
- FDA Grants Expanded Access to Multiple Myeloma Drug (specialtypharmacytimes.com)
Access is open to US adult patients who are refractory to the most common anti-myeloma drug classes. Multiple myeloma patients in immediate need of new treatment options can receive Janssen’s investigational daratumumab through an expanded access program.
- NABP, Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies Warn Public About Rogue Online Pharmacies in USP Blog (awarerx.org)
majority of online drug sellers operate illegally and sell counterfeit medications that can contain toxins such as floor wax and road tar,
- FDA Strengthens Warning of Heart Attack and Stroke Risk for Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (fda.gov)
FDA is strengthening an existing warning…to indicate that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke,...
- See which hospitals made the 2015 ‘Most Wired’ list (healthcareitnews.com)
Out of more than 2,200 U.S. hospitals, only 338 made it to this year's Most Wired list, demonstrating some of the most advanced health IT use and adoption in the nation. Check out the full list of winners here. (interactive)