To test the efficacy and safety of Dabigatran Etexilate over an extended period of time‚ a phase III RE-LY trial (Randomized Evaluation of Long-Term Anticoagulation Therapy) was conducted. It served to compare two fixed doses of Dabigatran Etexilate‚ both of which were administered blindly‚ and compare with an open label use of warfarin in patients that were suffering from atrial fibrillation (Connolly et al. 2009). The methodology of this study was as follows: trial participants were randomly assigned
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Specific Learning disorder refers to academic performance that is substantially below what would be expected given the person’s age‚ IQ score‚ and education. In the article “Psychoactive Medication and Learning Disabilities”‚ it focuses on the academicals and social behavioral effects of Ritalin and Dexedrine‚ which are psychoactive medications. It is a case study on David‚ a seven years old boy who showed characteristics of ADHD and learning disabilities. His IQ score was 62 according to the Stanford-Binet
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Multiple Sclerosis and Medical Marijuana How would you feel if you had a degenerative disease and the one medicine that helped you the most was not allowed to be prescribed to you and was also illegal for you to obtain? That is the case for many Multiple Sclerosis(MS)patients today. MS affects patients in many different ways‚ but medical marijuana (Cannibis) can help releive the symptoms of MS in these patients‚ if only it was legal to prescribe. MS is a chronic unpredictable nuerological disease
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QCF Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care Administer medication to individuals‚ and monitor the effects 1 Understand legislation‚ policy and procedures relevant to administration of medication 1.1. Identify current legislation‚ guidelines policies and protocols relevant to the administration of medication Legislation relating to medicines The Medicines Act (1968) It governs the control of medicines for human use and for veterinary use. It requires‚ that the local pharmasist or dispensing
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Much of the information we know regarding the abuse-related effects of cannabinoids comes from preclinical studies using the drug discrimination procedure (Balster and Prescott‚ 1992; Wiley‚ 1999). The drug discrimination procedure is based on the ability of a drug to induce a specific set of interoceptive stimulus conditions perceived by animals that might be predictive of the subjective reports of perceptions/feelings induced by the same drug in humans. As a result‚ the drug discrimination procedure
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There is nothing supernatural by using natural home remedies to manage any types of illnesses. Fruits and vegetables as well as natural herbal products and spices have been suggested to treat that. They have been recently used as the initial form of medicines. Old societies have used this form of treatment until these were replaced by modern medicines. However‚ many people are still heading back to the traditional style of treating health issues because of this has shown to provide more benefits
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Introduction To Medical Terminology What is Medical Terminology? It is the language of medicine. When studying this subject you will find that most medical words are divided into 3 categories: terms made from word parts; terms not made from word parts; terms which are eponyms (condition named for a person who first studied/identified/researched the disorder/disease) About Word Parts Words made from word parts usually consist of 2-3 parts. First‚ there is the combining form or root part
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In United States‚ we have a major problem with the addiction of prescription drugs. “Prescription drugs are playing an increasingly larger role in U.S. life‚ with nearly half of all Americans taking one or more medications” (Thompson 2013-2014). “Since I went to pharmacy school‚ I learned Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) and FDA rules and regulation which made me wonder about how and why misuse and abuse of prescription drugs costs the country an estimated of $53.4 billion‚ which is very
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right642593Healthcare Provider Consolidation and its effect on the Pharmaceutical IndustryThe driving forces behind the change and how Pharma can respond450000Healthcare Provider Consolidation and its effect on the Pharmaceutical IndustryThe driving forces behind the change and how Pharma can respond4000310515center5/1/2014 33000950005/1/2014 420003263900880008851265T. Daniel MooreRutgers business school450000T. Daniel MooreRutgers business school 1282890162048 Introduction Why Provider Consolidation
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Medication used to treat psychiatric conditions are abused by those who have been diagnosed with co-occurring disorders Why is this so common? Non-medical prescription use and prescription drug disorders are also associated with increased frequency of substance use‚ mood‚ and anxiety disorder. (Blanco et al.‚ 2013) Several medications are available and effective in treating anxiety disorders. These include benzodiazepines; Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)‚ Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
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