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In-hospital safety in field conditions of Nifurtimox Eflornithine Combination Therapy (NECT) for T. B. Gambiense Sleeping Sickness [PDF]
, 2012 Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT; sleeping sickness) is a fatal disease. Until 2009, available treatments for 2(nd) stage HAT were complicated to use, expensive (eflornithine monotherapy), or toxic, and ...
A Stanghellini +31 more
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Jornal de Pediatria, 2013 Objective: To perform a critical comparison between the Brazilian national essential medicines list (Rename, 2012) with the list of essential medicines for children (LEMC, 2011) of the World Health Organization (WHO), regarding the differences among ...
Helena Lutéscia L. Coelho +5 more
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Improving antibiotic prescribing for children in the resource-poor setting. [PDF]
, 2015 Antibiotics are a critically important part of paediatric medical care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where infectious diseases are the leading cause of child mortality. The World Health Organization estimates that >50% of all medicines are
Barker, CI +3 more
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Monographs for medicines on WHO’s Model List of Essential Medicines
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2018 To raise awareness about the importance of public pharmaceutical standards, identify if and, if so, where current pharmacopeias are falling short in the development of new and complete monographs and foster collaboration among the various pharmacopeias, to prioritize, develop and make available standards for those key medicines for which no complete ...
Roth, Lukas +3 more
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Adding a Medicine to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines [PDF]
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2009 Although the concept of essential medicines is not new, the processes that lead to placement of these medicines on the World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines are not well understood. Here, we describe the process by which we added a class of drugs, statins, to the Model List to help combat the growing global epidemic of ...
S P, Kishore, B J, Herbstman
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Core medicines for quality care of the dying [PDF]
, 2013 The proposal by Lindqvist and colleagues of four essential medicines for the control of terminal symptoms is commendable. Having a finite essential medication list facilitates prescribers to prescribe and pharmacies to stock and supply medications to
Tait, Paul A, To, Timothy H M
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What is the WHO essential medicines list? [PDF]
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2012 This article briefly presents the main characteristics of the World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicines list (EML), a register of minimum medicine needs for every health-care system. The idea behind the list is that the use of a limited number of well-known and cost-effective medicines may lead to improved long-term medicine supply, lower ...
PURGATO, Marianna, BARBUI, Corrado
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Diabetes and the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines [PDF]
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2022 Danne T, Ampudia-Blasco F, Mathieu C
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Timely adoption of newer evidences
Bhutan Health Journal, 2021 How can such evidences help patients and the health system in Bhutan? Bhutan has a three-tiered health system that guides resource allocation such as the availability of medicines, testing facilities and placement of doctors.
Thinley Dorji
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The impact of the Medicines Control Council backlog and fast-track review system on access to innovative and new generic and biosimilar medicines of public health importance in South Africa [PDF]
, 2016 The fast-track registration policy of the South African National Department of Health allows for rapid registration of new medicines of public health importance and of all medicines on the Essential Medicines List, most of which are generics. No limit is
Leng, HMJ, Pollock, AM, Sanders, D
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