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Ze kwamen elkaar tegen op het schoolplein, verpleegkundig onderzoeker Carolien Sino en apotheker Eric Hiddink. Het resultaat is een project waarin de samenwerking tussen thuiszorg en apothekers centraal staat. Problemen die de thuiszorg constateert bij medicatiegebruik kunnen voor apothekers en huisartsen aanleiding zijn tot ingrijpen. “Vroegsignalering kan medicatiegerelateerde problemen voorkomen.”
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Medicine shortages are a persistent and global problem. Preferential policy is only part of the cause. Authorities are looking for a solution, but their powers are limited. And yet, measures have proven effective.
Tens of thousands of pills and capsules are ground or broken up every day in order to mix them with yoghurt or soft drinks. The reason: they are either too large or have too rough a surface to be able to swallow them easily. Importantly, not all medicines may be processed.
The era of groundbreaking inventions in the field of pharmacotherapy seems over, but there have recently been some giant leaps in two areas, type 1 diabetes and oncology.
The long-term effects of ADHD medication are currently under investigation. There are concerns about psychiatric side effects and the cardiovascular safety of this medication. There have even been reports of deaths.
Preface by the Chairman of the Royal Dutch Pharmacist's Association
Message from the Minister of Health, The Netherlands
Better diagnostic testing allows tailored therapy for an increasing number of diseases. This has led to a growing number of conditions classified as ‘orphan diseases’. A welcome source of income for the pharmaceutical industry, but a growing expense for society. It’s time for a change of course.
If compounding (clinial) pharmacists with "GMP-certified manufacturing units" should return in order to reduce healthcare costs for rare diseases, we need to develop pharmacopoeial monographies [...]
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