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A package insert is a document included in the package of a medication that provides information about that drug and its use. For prescription medications, the insert is technical, providing information for medical professionals about how to prescribe the drug. Package inserts for prescription drugs often include a separate document called a ...
Electronic Medicines Compendium. The Electronic Medicines Compendium is a provider of information on medicines, produced by Datapharm. It lists summaries of product characteristics and patient information leaflets. [1][2]
eMedicine. eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base founded in 1996 by doctors Scott Plantz and Jonathan Adler, and computer engineer Jeffrey Berezin. The eMedicine website consists of approximately 6,800 medical topic review articles, each of which is associated with a clinical subspecialty "textbook".
Alemtuzumab, sold under the brand names Campath and Lemtrada among others, is a medication used to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia and multiple sclerosis. [8] In chronic lymphocytic leukemia, it has been used as both a first line and second line treatment. [8] It is given by injection into a vein.
Escitalopram. Escitalopram, sold under the brand names Lexapro and Cipralex, among others, is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class. [9] Escitalopram is mainly used to treat major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. [9] It is taken by mouth, [9] available commercially as an oxalate salt ...
Electronic prescription (e-prescribing or e-Rx) is the computer-based electronic generation, transmission, and filling of a medical prescription, taking the place of paper and faxed prescriptions. E-prescribing allows a physician, physician assistant, pharmacist, or nurse practitioner to use digital prescription software to electronically ...
A 2014 review found evidence of drug-seeking behavior, with prescriptions for zolpidem making up 20% of falsified or forged prescriptions. [ 45 ] Rodent studies of the tolerance -inducing properties have shown that zolpidem has less tolerance-producing potential than benzodiazepines, but in primates , the tolerance-producing potential of ...
The European Medicines Agency conducted a review of the safety of devices then on the market and found several factors that determine whether the devices successfully deliver drug into muscle, including "needle length, the thickness of fat under the skin, the way the auto-injector works (e.g., if it is spring loaded or not), the angle at which ...