[Monitoring and impact of the disclosure of five health alerts for drugs in Colombia].

Objective: Make the notification and monitoring compliance with five health drug alerts to a group of health care providers in Colombia.

Methods: Quasi-experimental, prospective, before-after study, without control group, by intervening in physician prescribers of ketoconazole, metoclopramide, nimesulide, diacerein, strontium ranelate. The affiliated population of the contributory system of the Colombian Health System was taken as the universe population sample from 13 health promoting entities (EPS) of Colombia.

Results of the Inclusion of New Medications in the Obligatory Health System Plan in Colombia, 2012-2013.

Background: The Colombian health care system has had a plan with limited benefits, but since 2012, 57 drugs have been added to this plan.

Objectives: The objective of this article was to describe the trends of utilization and costs of medications covered by the Agreement 029/2011 and compare them with those that were contained in the benefits plan.

Methods: This descriptive study involved a group of 3.

Framework for assessment and monitoring of amphibians and reptiles in the Lower Urubamba region, Peru.

Populations of amphibians and reptiles are experiencing new or increasing threats to their survival. Many of these threats are directly attributable to human activity and resource development. This presents the increasing need for worldwide amphibian and reptile assessments and effective, standardized monitoring protocols.