Pharmacists are your medicines experts ppt

Steven Brandenburg was working at Advocate Aurora Health in Grafton, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Milwaukee, when he was arrested last month following an investigation into the 57 spoiled vials of the Moderna vaccine. He has not been criminally charged. A status conference in the case is scheduled for Tuesday. … [Read more...] about Board suspends license of Wisconsin pharmacist suspected of trying to spoil COVID-19 vaccines

Sơn is also very active in international co-operation activities and is the main lecturer of the PET/CT training module under a co-operation framework with South Korea’s Seoul University. He also participates in technical projects of the International Atomic Energy Agency and 108 Military Central Hospital. … [Read more...] about Young doctor pursues nuclear medicine to improve cancer treatment

The so-called messenger RNA vaccines trick cells into producing a viral protein that in turn triggers an immune response. This is a new method of immunisation that has been used by various companies to produce their vaccines against the new coronavirus disease. However, some are voicing concerns about the method being too novel to be used safely. … [Read more...] about Chinese Experts Urge for Halt in Use of mRNA Vaccines Following Deaths in Norway, Report Says

solid organ transplant recipients those with specific cancers: people with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy people with lung cancer who are undergoing radical radiotherapy people with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment people having immunotherapy or other continuing antibody treatments for cancer people having other targeted cancer treatments that can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors people who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last 6 months or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs those with severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) those with rare diseases that significantly increase the risk of infections (such as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), homozygous sickle cell disease) those on immunosuppression therapies … [Read more...] about Urgent protection needed to protect people with diabetes from Covid, warn experts

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus openly expressed "disappointment" with China last week after Beijing failed to grant final permission to the delegation to enter the country, although the plans had been jointly arranged between the two sides. Beijing defended the delay as a "misunderstanding.' … [Read more...] about WHO Experts Arrive in China to Probe Pandemic’s Origins

Goode from CVS said his company's participation in the program is being led by its long-term care division, which has deep experience with nursing homes. He noted that tens of thousands of nursing homes — about 85% nationally, according to the CDC — have found that reassuring enough to participate. … [Read more...] about CVS and Walgreens under fire for slow pace of vaccination in nursing homes

Once the supply of vaccine is available, pharmacists around the country will have the capacity to give 100 million doses of vaccine in one month, Steven Anderson, the president and CEO of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, told reporters on a phone call. … [Read more...] about The US just suffered its worst day ever for Covid-19 deaths. But this summer could be ‘dramatically better’

"You teach them the basics and good hand hygiene and you start them on oranges," he said, meaning trainees are taught to inject oranges before they try it out on people. "Pharmacy schools already have superb curriculum for all this, and so do nursing schools." … [Read more...] about Pharmacy techs recruited to help get more Covid-19 shots into arms

Carried by mosquitoes, Zika has infected more than a million people in Brazil in the last year, and has been linked to an outbreak of severe birth defects there. Earlier this month, a Dallas health agency had reported a case of a woman who contracted Zika from a man who had returned from Venezuela. The 14 new U.S. cases "suggest sexual transmission may be a more likely means of transmission for Zika virus than previously considered," the CDC said. … [Read more...] about Zika Virus Updates: Few Pregnant Travelers Are Infected With Zika

Curative claims the FDA’s warning was prompted by new data that the company submitted.Curative is now trying to submit new data that makes the case that its test can work in the scenarios where it performed relatively poorly earlier. Jeffrey Klausner, its acting medical director, said in an interview that the company recently studied how the tests performed in asymptomatic people with no known exposure and people who collected their samples unsupervised. The company submitted the 1,300-person study, which examined “a variety of different specimen tests,” to the FDA a couple weeks ago, Klausner said. … [Read more...] about The FDA Warned Curative’s Popular COVID Test Could Be Faulty. Here’s What We Know So Far.