Impact of the RxVaccinate program for pharmacy-based pneumococcal immunization: A cluster-randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of the RxVaccinate program on the structure, process, and outcome measures and to assess team leaders' perceptions of the program.

Design: Cluster-randomized experimental design.

Setting: Community pharmacies.

Intravenous infusion of ascorbic acid decreases serum histamine concentrations in patients with allergic and non-allergic diseases.

Histamine plays an important role in the development of symptoms in allergic, infectious, neoplastic and other diseases. Empirical findings have suggested beneficial effects of ascorbic acid supplementation in those diseases, and these effects are assumed to be related to a possible decrease in systemic histamine concentration. In the present study, we systematically investigated for the first time the effect of 7.

Self-assessment tool for screening patients at risk for drug therapy problems.

Objective: To describe the development, use, and evaluation of a patient self-assessment tool for screening patients at risk for drug therapy problems (DTPs) and potentially interested in receiving a personal consultation with a pharmacist.

Design: Quasi-experimental, nonrandomized, controlled study.

Setting: Area Agency on Aging-affiliated senior centers in Florida from April 2005 to December 2005.

Nisoldipine CC: clinical experience in ischaemic heart disease.

Nisoldipine coat core (CC) is a long-acting calcium channel blocker (CCB) with a slow and smooth onset of action. It is effective in the treatment of angina pectoris, increasing exercise duration, time to ST segment depression and time to onset of angina. The results of two studies reviewed here, in which patients received concomitant treatment with a beta-blocker, showed that the anti-anginal efficacy of nisoldipine CC, 40 mg once daily, measured at trough was comparable with amlodipine, 10 mg once daily, and with diltiazem retard, 120 mg twice daily, and that efficacy was maintained over a 24-hour period.