BACKGROUND Drug- and device-associated hypersensitivity reactions are serious toxicities that can result in respiratory failure or acute cardiac ischemic events, or even severe hypersensitivity syndromes such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome. These toxicities are usually poorly described in the "black box" warnings section of the product labels. METHODS Adverse event reports contained in databases...

Control Banding (CB) strategies to prevent work-related illness and injury for 2.5 billion workers without access to health and safety professionals has grown exponentially this last decade. CB originates from the pharmaceutical industry to control active pharmaceutical ingredients without a complete toxicological basis and therefore no occupational exposure limits. CB applications have broaden...

We examined the impact on physician prescribing patterns of pharmaceutical firms offering all-expenses-paid trips to popular sunbelt vacation sites to attend symposia sponsored by a pharmaceutical company. The impact was assessed by tracking the pharmacy inventory usage reports for two drugs before and after the symposia. Both drugs were available only as intravenous preparations and could be u...

BACKGROUND Little is known about patients' awareness of and attitudes about gifts to physicians from pharmaceutical companies. METHODS During a 7-week period in summer 1994, we surveyed adults (18 years of age and older) in the waiting rooms of two family practice centers in central Missouri. Four-hundred eighty-six adults (83 percent participation rate) responded to a self-administered quest...

AIM Every year, millions of people around the world suffer from different infectious diseases, considerable part of which are hospital-acquired infections. WHO considers hand hygiene as a priority measure aimed to reduce the level of infection. We evaluated various aspects related to the situational behavior and prioritization regarding hand hygiene measures among the healthcare workers of Ukra...

This study centers on the use of inelastic neutron scattering as an alternative tool for physical characterization of solid pharmaceutical drugs. On the basis of such approach, relaxation processes in the pharmaceutical compound phenacetin (p-ethoxyacetanilide, C(10)H(13)NO(2)) were evidenced on heating between 2 and 300 K. By evaluating the mean-square displacement obtained from the elastic fi...

R esponsibility for responding to homeland terrorist attacks and other emergencies begins at the local level and is grounded in collaboration between the private and public sectors. The federal government is ready, at a state’s bidding, to assist communities quickly and in powerful ways—supplying pharmaceuticals, trained personnel, equipment, and other resources. Effective response also require...

Pharmaceutical industry is currently undergoing a transient phase with new orientation. Loss of financial resources, presence of new therapeutic agents and increasing cost of research and development have called for a full.scale restructuring within the pharmaceutical industry to retain even the most basic competitiveness. The development of new technologies has been as one way out of the dile...

Specific protocols define eligibility, conditioning, donor selection, graft composition and prophylaxis of vs. host disease for children young adults undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). However, international rarely, if ever, detail supportive care, including pharmaceutical infection prophylaxis, physical protection with face masks cohort isolation or food restrictions. Suppor...

Specific protocols define eligibility, conditioning, donor selection, graft composition and prophylaxis of vs. host disease for children young adults undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). However, international rarely, if ever, detail supportive care, including pharmaceutical infection prophylaxis, physical protection with face masks cohort isolation or food restrictions. Suppor...