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Seizure
January 2025
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy, Auburn, AL 36049, United States.
Purpose: On November 28, 2023, the U.S. FDA issued a Drug Safety Communication, warning that antiseizure medications (ASMs) levetiracetam and clobazam can cause a rare but serious reaction, drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS).
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January 2025
Department of Pharmacy, Wuhan Children's Hospital (Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital), Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. Electronic address:
Objective: To investigate prescription patterns of insomnia medications among Chinese children, assess the current status of drug treatment, and offer data to support the guidance of clinical prescribing practices.
Methods: This study analyzed pediatric prescriptions for insomnia medications from the China Hospital Prescription Analysis Cooperation Project database across nine cities between 2016 and 2023. The analysis focused on demographic characteristics, prescription trends, and frequency of medication use among pediatric insomnia patients.
Background: Dementia is a growing global public health challenge. Previous meta-analyses have found that systemic medications may modulate dementia risk. We aimed to provide an overview of this evidence.
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January 2025
Department of Pharmacy, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, No. 45, Changchun Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, 100053, People's Republic of China.
Background: The safety data of lecanemab in the post-marketing period has yet to be fully investigated in the current literature. We aimed to identify and characterise the safety profile of lecanemab in the post-marketing period.
Methods: We searched and reviewed the reports submitted to the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS).
J Opioid Manag
January 2025
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Objective: To implement an electronic health record best practice advisory (BPA) to promote coprescribing of naloxone to patients at high risk of serious opioid-related adverse events (ORADEs).
Design: This pre-post quasi-experimental study evaluated 9 months of opioid and naloxone prescription data before and after BPA implementation.
Setting: The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin enterprise is comprised of 45 ambulatory clinics and 10 hospitals, including the only adult Level 1 trauma center in eastern Wisconsin.
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