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| AGI Grosses €42.5M In Dublin, London IPO |
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| DUBLIN, Ireland - AGI Therapeutics plc, a specialty pharma company established by former Elan Corp. plc executives, raised gross proceeds of €42.5 million ($50.3 million) in an initial public offering Monday on the Irish Stock Exchange in Dublin and the Alternative Investment Market in London. | |
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| ED nurses saved $100,000 and cut drug errors to almost zero |
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| Stopping a nurse from giving ampicillin-sulbactam to a patient with a penicillin allergy. Reducing tobramycin dosing for an elderly patient with an elevated serum creatinine level. Correcting an intravenous dose of epinephrine that was 10 times the recommended dose. | |
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| Make sure your patients understand their medication, discharge plan |
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| As a case manager, you’re likely to be one of the last people to see patients before they leave the hospital. This gives you the opportunity to make sure they understand their treatment regimen, their follow-up appointment, how to take their medicine, and other components of the discharge plan that can help them recuperate rapidly and avoid readmissions or emergency department visits. | |
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| Rotavirus: An Update on Current Diagnosis and Management |
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| Even in the modern era, diarrheal disease of any cause remains a serious worldwide public health concern, resulting in almost 3 million deaths annually. Children in the developing world are affected particularly hard, accounting for almost 2 million of these deaths, such that diarrhea is the second most common non-neonatal cause of death in children younger than 5 years, after respiratory illness. | |
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| The C. diff conundrum: Deadly new strain raises tough questions for ICPs |
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| A highly virulent strain of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) continues to emerge in the United States and Canada, posing formidable challenges for infection control professionals because it can be deadly upon arrival and notoriously difficult to eradicate. | |
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| Toxic Shock Syndrome After Medical Abortion |
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| Rare cases of fatal toxic shock syndrome associated with Clostridium sordellii have been reported; clinicians are urged to be aware of warning signals | |
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| Vitamin D Supplementation and Bone Health |
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| Adequate vitamin D intake never used to be a concern with the traditional daily tablespoon of cod liver oil and regular exposure to direct sunlight. But now, with cod liver oil falling out of favor for many people, and warnings about too much sunlight causing skin cancer, there may in fact be issues with vitamin D insufficiency, especially given what we know about the connection between vitamin D, calcium homeostasis, and bone health. | |
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| Withdrawing life support from PVS patients: Do ethics change for age? |
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| The case of an 11-year-old Massachusetts girl, Haleigh Poutre, who suffered severe brain trauma last year as the result of abuse and is now in the custody of the state, has opened up discussion on withdrawing life support in pediatric patients who are diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). | |
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