High-Throughput Qualitative and Quantitative Drug Checking by MALDI HRMS
Illicit drugs are a global health problem, since both their acute and chronic consumption have negative impacts on the drug user's health. Drug checking facilities are receiving growing interest as they allow drug users to chemically analyze their ...
Timothée Joye +7 more
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Systematic review and network meta-analysis on the efficacy of evolocumab and other therapies for the management of lipid levels in hyperlipidemia [PDF]
Background: The proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors evolocumab and alirocumab substantially reduce low‐density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL‐C) when added to statin therapy in patients who need additional LDL‐C reduction ...
Bray, Sarah +13 more
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Biochemical network matching and composition [PDF]
This paper looks at biochemical network matching and ...
Goodfellow, Martin +2 more
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Does the Use of Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine in Treating Patients with Uncomplicated falciparum Malaria Reduce the Risk for Recurrent New falciparum Infection More Than Artemether-Lumefantrine? [PDF]
Malaria contributes significantly to the global disease burden. The World Health Organization recommended the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) for treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria a decade ago in response to problems of ...
Akpaloo, W., Purssell, E.
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Background Drug checking is a harm reduction strategy which allows users to check the content and purity of illicit drugs. Although drug checking has been trialled internationally, with demonstrated value as a harm reduction and health promotion strategy,
Niamh Day +6 more
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Identifying acne treatment uncertainties via a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership [PDF]
Objectives: The Acne Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) was set up to identify and rank treatment uncertainties by bringing together people with acne, and professionals providing care within and beyond the National Health Service (NHS). Setting: The
Andrews, Stephen +11 more
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Drug checking services for people who use drugs: a systematic review [PDF]
AbstractBackground and AimsDrug checking services provide people who use drugs with chemical analysis results of their drug samples while simultaneously monitoring the unregulated drug market. We sought to identify and synthesize literature on the following domains: (a) the influence of drug checking services on the behaviour of people who use drugs ...
Nazlee Maghsoudi +6 more
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Check Your Chems International. Information, Drug Checking and Sexual Advice.
{"references": ["Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. (2010). Consideration of the Cathinones. In Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/acmd-report-on-the-consideration-of-the-cathinones", "Ann Fordham. (2022, December 22). \"Drug-free world\" no more!
Garo, Jordi +2 more
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Drug checking is increasingly being explored outside of festivals and events to be an ongoing service within communities, frequently integrated within responses to illicit drug overdose. The choice of instrumentation is a common question, and the demands
Lea Gozdzialski +2 more
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Older patients' prescriptions screening in the community pharmacy: development of the Ghent Older People's Prescriptions community Pharmacy Screening (GheOP3S) tool [PDF]
Background: Ageing of the population often leads to polypharmacy. Consequently, potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) becomes more frequent. Systematic screening for PIP in older patients in primary care could yield a large improvement in health ...
Boussery, Koen +5 more
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