Redispensing of expensive oral anticancer medicines: A practical application.

Introduction: Increasing use of expensive oral anticancer medicines comes with the downside of a financial and environmental burden, partially caused by unused medication. Returned oral anticancer medicine to the pharmacy could be considered for redispensing providing guaranteed quality. This study aimed to identify and implement quality aspects and criteria for redispensing oral anticancer medicine in daily pharmacy practice.

Comparison of hypersensitivity reactions of intravenous iron: iron isomaltoside-1000 (Monofer ) versus ferric carboxy-maltose (Ferinject ). A single center, cohort study.

Aims: Intravenous iron supplementation is widely used to treat iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia when oral iron administration is ineffective or poorly tolerated. Hypersensitivity reactions (HSRs) during infusions are rare, but can be life-threatening. This study aimed to compare the risk for HSRs with the intravenous administration of iron isomaltoside-1000 and ferric carboxymaltose for the treatment of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia.

Statins and prevention of infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of data from large randomised placebo controlled trials.

Objective: To evaluate whether the potential of statins to lower the risk of infections as published in observational studies is causal.

Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised placebo controlled trials.

Data Sources: Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Library.