Over a 15 month period, all the scripts written by doctors in the Episkopi Garrison Medical Centre, Cyprus, were analysed. A formulary was produced by using the most popular items in that 15 month period and tested in a one month trial period. The idea was to find a practical and efficient method of producing a 'basic' formulary to which items could be added or removed after discussion with col...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the impact of the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board's (WSIB's) graduated approach to opioid management on opioid prescribing and disability claim duration. METHODS We studied patterns of opioid use and disability claim duration among Ontarians who received benefits through the WSIB between 2002 and 2013. We used interventional time ser...

PROPOSAL The World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines and Model Formulary 2010 list deferoxamine (DFO) as the treatment of choice for both acute and chronic iron poisoning. The Model Formulary currently does not designate any orally administered agents for the chelation of iron. It is proposed that deferasirox be considered the oral chelator of choice in the treatment of chro...

We present an interactive, Web-based application that provides a comfortable access to evaluating, comparing, and plotting of a multitude of different plasma and atomic physics parameters , grouped by the unit dimensions. A special attention is devoted to the Stark broadening which is calculated with a good accuracy for transitions between degenerate atomic levels. The list of the entities calc...

In this commentary, we review recent research suggesting that (a) second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) may be no more effective than first-generation antipsychotics (FGAs), (b) the reduced risk of EPS and tardive dyskinesia with SGAs is more weakly supported by the research literature than has been appreciated, and (c) benefits may be offset by greater metabolic risks of some SGAs and their ...