Community responses to persons with aphasia participating in CoActive therapeutic theatre: A pilot study.

Background: Persons with aphasia (PWA) experience a number of communicative and social-emotional challenges. Reported experiences of PWA include but are not limited to, being misunderstood, isolated, frustrated, and infantilised.

Aims: The aim of this pilot study, involving a Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA), conducted over the course of 2 years, was to understand community perceptions of aphasia while PWA engaged in an interprofessional treatment program involving speech and drama therapy.

Health risks related to illegal and on-line sale of drugs and food supplements: results of a survey on marketed products in Italy from 2011 to 2013.

Objectives: The increasing illegal and on-line market of medicines and food supplements is helping the widespread diffusion of harmful counterfeit and forbidden products among consumers of developed countries. The objectives of this survey were the description of the main frauds recognized by public officers and the detection of illegal or counterfeit drugs and food supplements.

Methods: Medicines and food supplements found by Police forces on the illegal market or resulting from seizures made by Italian Customs authorities were visually inspected and analysed to evaluate their quality and the presence of other undeclared substances.

A survey on illegal and counterfeit medicines for the treatment of erectile dysfunctions in Italy.

Introduction: In developed countries the phenomenon of pharmaceutical counterfeiting is steadily increasing through the illegal and the Internet market. Medicines for the treatment of erectile dysfunctions containing phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5) are especially prone to falsification.

Aims: To obtain evidence of the health risks for patients taking these products and to provide useful information to general practitioners and specialists in sexual medicine.

"For export only" medicines come back to Europe: a RP-LC method for the screening of six glucocorticoids in illegal and counterfeit anti-inflammatory and lightening creams.

"For export only" anti-inflammatory and lightening creams are medicinal products sold in African countries for their skin whitening action. In the last years, Rapid Alerts from European Medicinal Regulatory Agencies evidenced the presence of a large number of illegal and counterfeit anti-inflammatory products advertised for their whitening action on black skin in the European market. These drugs, containing glucocorticoids, are illegally sold in Europe in unauthorized ethno-cosmetics-shops and mainly bought by immigrants.

An LC method for the simultaneous screening of some common counterfeit and sub-standard antibiotics Validation and uncertainty estimation.

Pharmaceutical counterfeiting is a worldwide public health problem, often under-recognised, especially in developing countries where the percentage of counterfeit and sub-standard medicines is dramatically high. Antibiotics, among the most widespread drugs, have been particularly targeted by counterfeiters. World Health Organization emphasizes the need for development and distribution of screening methods explicitly targeted to counterfeit drugs.