Supervised injection facilities are a form of micro-environmental intervention that aim to address various harms associated with injection drug use. Given the numerous threats faced by women who inject drugs and are street-involved, including heightened risks for violence, we sought to elucidate how North America's first supervised injection facility (SIF) mediates the impact of violence among ...

BACKGROUND The 1996 Guidelines for Preparation of Sterile Products in Pharmacies of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CSHP) represent the current standard of practice for sterile compounding in Canada. However, these guidelines are practice recommendations, not enforceable standards. Previous surveys of sterile compounding practices have shown that actual practice deviates markedly ...

PURPOSE A preliminary investigation was conducted to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of two closed-system products in preventing contamination of typical pharmacy workplace surfaces with cyclophosphamide during simulated hazardous drug preparation activities in a controlled laboratory setting. METHODS Two separate trials simulating hazardous drug compounding using cyclophosphamide were...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have identified medication errors in preparing and administering intravenous medicines of 13-84% in hospitals in individual countries. OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of the design and implementation of systems for the preparation and administration of intravenous therapy in hospitals in three European countries on the number of observed medication errors. To gain ...

In the present investigation an attempt has been made to explore traditional medicinal knowledge of plant species used against rheumatism by the Bhoxa tribe of district Dehradun. An ethnobotanical survey was carried out among the tribal people in all seasons to collect the relevant information about the medicinal uses of wild plants. Frequent field trips were made for the collection of plant sp...

Recent FDA compounding guidances raise hackles.

An assay technique, homogeneous enzyme immunoassay, is described for the quantitative determination of morphine derivatives in biological fluids. An enzyme is labeled with morphine. When the enzymelabeled morphine is bound by antimorphine antibodies, the enzyme is rendered inactive. Free morphine competes with enzyme-morphine for antibody binding sites preventing inhibition of enzyme activity. ...

Swedish has two main types of action nominal constructions (ANCs), either compounding or phrasal (incorporating nominal, in Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993), which contain deverbal nouns -ande -(n)ing, along with dependent elements. This study investigates ANCs use, based on a limited data set from COVID-19 corpus. It adopts lexeme-based approach, where (simplex nominals), whether including (n)ing, are ...