Dispensary Corner 06 May 14
May 6, 2014
WOULD you like fries with that?
In response to our Dispensary
Corner drive-thru GP service
article last week, a reader let us
know there are already a number
of pharmacies offering the drivethrough
service across Australia.
The usual approach is to ring
through for any pharmacy item
purchase and then pick-up from
the vehicle lane for a fast and,
when you have children in the
car or in bad weather, safe and
convenient service.
@FDA vs @Twitter.
A study has found that more
than three times as many adverse
reactions were reported to
Twitter than to the US regulatory
authority, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA).
Researchers looked on Twitter
for keywords for 23 commonly
used medications (the best excuse
for getting snapped checking
social media at work we’ve heard
so far) and found around 6.9m
tweets over six months, selecting
61,000 of these to analyze,
MobiHealthNews reported.
Of these, 4,400 were reported
as adverse events, with 1,400
reported to the FDA for the same
drugs over the same time period,
the publication reported.
SMALL pox stocks under lock.
Should the last stocks of small
pox be destroyed?
In MJA Insight, Jane McCredie
talks about the reasons why
destroying the last vestiges of
the disease is not such a simple
decision, something the World
Health Assembly will consider this
month.
Remaining stocks of the live
variola virus are kept in labs
in Russia and in the United
States, who have argued that
the stocks might be needed to
create a vaccine in the event of a
bioterrorist attack, McCredie says,
and infectious disease specialists
have argued that there is still
research to be done on the virus.
To read the full article, CLICK
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