The Role of a Clinical Pharmacist in the Identification of Potentially Inadequate Drugs Prescribed to the Geriatric Population in Low-Resource Settings Using the Beers Criteria: A Pilot Study.

Population aging is a global phenomenon. Each country in the world faces an increased number of older persons in the total population. With aging, a high prevalence of multiple chronic diseases occurs, leading to the use of complex therapeutic regimens and often to polypharmacy.

The Declining Use of Opioids at a Level 1 Trauma Center.

Background: The epidemic of opioid-related overdose in the United States prompted a public health response that included implementation of opioid prescribing guidelines and restrictions. Such directives, however, were not applicable to hospitalized trauma patients. We hypothesized that although prescribing mandates did not apply to hospitalized trauma patients, inpatient opioid administration had nonetheless decreased over time.

A Questionnaire for Rating Health-related Quality of Life.

Background: Translations of instruments for measuring quality of life developed in certain, mostly more developed, parts of the world usually do not cover regionally specific aspects of health-related quality of life, even after transcultural validation. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a reliable questionnaire in Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin languages suitable for measuring health-related quality of life in adults.

Methods: The study was of a cross-sectional type, assessing the reliability and validity of a newly developed questionnaire for measuring health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adults residing in western Balkan states (WB-HRQoL).

Altered Mental Status in the Emergency Department - When to Consider Anti-LGI-1 Encephalitis: Case Report.

Introduction: Anti-leucine-rich glioma inactivated-1 (LGI-1) is one of few antibodies implicated in limbic encephalitis, a syndrome that can result in permanent neurological symptoms if left untreated.

Case Report: We present a patient with dystonic seizures, progressive cognitive decline, psychiatric symptoms and short-term memory loss, and mild hyponatremia diagnosed with anti-LGI-1 antibody limbic encephalitis.

Conclusion: There are few reports in the emergency medicine community describing anti-LGI-1 antibody limbic encephalitis.

Mechanisms of skin moisturization with hyperharmonized hydroxyl modified fullerene substance.

Background: Hyper Harmonized Hydroxyl Modified Fullerene Substance (3HFWC ) establishes hydrogen bonds with the surrounding water molecules and organizes them in clusters with the liquid crystalline state, similar to the properties of water surrounding the biomolecules.

Aims: To investigate the moisturizing properties of hyperharmonized fullerenol-3HFWC as an emulsion O/W ingredient on the skin.

Patients/methods: We have analyzed the reflexion of the blue light from the skin, in vivo, with different levels of moisturization and compared the influence of three groups of cosmetic products (with various active ingredients, 3HFWC or water in same percentage in the "vehiculum") on skin moisturization by measuring paramagnetic/diamagnetic properties by Optomagnetic Imaging Spectroscopy.