Pharmacists' use of social media as aiding tools for reading and interpreting illegible prescriptions.

Background: The ability to read and interpret a prescription is a crucial and rate-determining step for the provision of correct medicine(s), appropriate instructions to patients and for good practice of pharmacy in general. However, both in public and private healthcare settings, pharmacists continue to receive numerous illegible handwritten prescriptions. This is time consuming, and it poses serious legal and health consequences if prescriptions are read incorrectly, resulting in wrong medicines being dispensed.

"I may be essential but someone has to look after my kids": women physicians and COVID-19.

Objectives: This paper analyzes results from focus groups held with women physicians in British Columbia which explored questions around how gender norms and roles influenced their experiences during COVID-19.

Methods: Four virtual focus groups were organized between July and September 2020. Participants (n = 27) were voluntarily recruited.

Quantitative MRI in the very preterm brain: assessing tissue organization and myelination using magnetization transfer, diffusion tensor and T₁ imaging.

Magnetization transfer ratio (MTR), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) parameters and T(1) relaxometry values were used to create parametric maps characterizing the tissue microstructure of the neonatal brain in infants born very premature (24-32 gestational weeks) and scanned at preterm and term equivalent age. Group-wise image registration was used to determine anatomical correspondence between individual scans and the pooled parametric data at the preterm and term ages. These parametric maps showed distinct contrasts whose interrelations varied across brain regions and between the preterm and term period.

Late recurrence of large peri-stomal metastasis following abdomino-perineal resection of rectal cancer.

Background: Cutaneous metastasis from colorectal cancer after excision of the primary is a rare occurrence and presents as cutaneous or subcutaneous nodules or as a rash commonly on the anterior abdominal wall.

Case Presentation: This is a case description of the management of a large fungating peristomal cutaneous metastasis occurring 14 years after abdomino-perineal excision of the primary cancer. The gross appearance initially suggested possibility of a true metachronous cancer with peristomal spread.

Semen and serum pharmacokinetics of zidovudine and zidovudine-glucuronide in men with HIV-1 infection.

Study Objective: To characterize the concentration-time profiles of zidovudine and zidovudine-glucuronide in semen and serum of men infected with the human immunodeficiency-1 virus (HIV-1).

Design: Open-label observational study.

Setting: University-affiliated teaching hospital and research center.