Patients have the right to be fully informed about the likely benefits and risks of any proposed examination or treatment, and practitioners are obliged to obtain informed consent beforehand. Accurate information about the risks of acupuncture is available following publication of the results of two prospective surveys. At a joint meeting on the safety of acupuncture, members of the three large...

The aim of this study was to develop an alternative method for enteric coating of HPMC capsules that avoids the sealing step before coating, resulting in ready-to-use enteric-coated capsules for the use in retail or hospital pharmacy or R&D sections of pharmaceutical industry and for the production of enteric-coated heat and moisture sensitive biomaterials. HPMC caps and bodies 00 (Vcaps, Capsu...

Hospital effluents can potentially increase the concentration of emerging pollutants in the influent of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) and receiving water bodies. This paper presents a hydraulic model that predicts the transport of selected pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCP) in a municipal sewer system section of Oslo, Norway. The sewer section additionally collects sewage fr...

Donor human milk has been used in the United States for >90 years, but recent advances in human milk science and laboratory techniques have led to increasing use of this resource. Pediatricians began using donor human milk in the 1900s in response to anecdotal observation that premature infants had better health outcomes when receiving their own mothers' milk. Since then, a formalized human mil...

OBJECTIVE We sought to identify outcome instruments used in rehabilitation of the hand and upper extremity; to determine their alignment with the constructs of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process; and to report gaps in the constructs measured by outcome instruments as a basis for future ...

Once a product for an ORD is approved; conditional or non conditional, there are still unanswered questions on long-term safety and effectiveness. And there is often limited knowledge on natural progression of the disease and optimal disease management. These questions could be answered by prospectively collecting real world data into patient registries. The scope of the registry should be in l...

Travelers are becoming increasingly used to the need to seek appropriate health advice before embarking on trips, particularly to developing countries. Travel health advice is given in various ways and through various media.1 Printed material often accompanies a travel health professional's oral explanations. Leaflets, booklets, brochures and other printed material have been used for a long tim...

BACKGROUND Coverage decisions determining the benefit baskets of health systems have been increasingly relying on evidence regarding patient benefit and costs. Relevant structures, methodologies, and processes have especially been established for pharmaceuticals but approaches differ. The objective of this work was thus to identify institutions in a broad range of European countries (n = 36) in...