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COUNTERFEIT AND FALSIFIED MEDICINES: TODAY’S CHALLENGES AND SMART SOLUTIONS

Law. Human. Environment, 2022
In any democratic country, special attention is paid to health protection, as a result of which, through organisational, financial, economic, and legal institutions, the state ensures and maintains the health protection of the population at the sufficient level.
openaire   +2 more sources

Navigating Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Hype and Fear: Decolonizing ELT Materials Through Generative Artificial Intelligence

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite calls from critical applied linguists to decolonize ELT materials that reproduce colonial ideologies, teachers working under neoliberal constraints and attendant time pressures often have to deliver textbook content as is rather than revising it.
Steven Yeung, John Gray
wiley   +1 more source

Patient Safety and Organisational Accountability: Reassessing Criminal Liability Frameworks in Healthcare

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Serious harm in healthcare often results from systemic failures, yet criminal accountability remains largely addressed through homicide law, gross negligence manslaughter and health‐and‐safety offences, frameworks that emphasise individual culpability and are ill‐suited to addressing organisational failings.
Sarah Bennett, Amel Alghrani
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of medicines in southern Togo: Investigation of antibiotics and of medicines for non-communicable diseases from pharmacies and informal vendors.

PLoS ONE, 2018
Substandard and falsified medicines represent a serious threat for public health and patient safety. Especially in low and middle-income countries, the prevalence of substandard and falsified medicines is reportedly high. However, reliable information on
Simon Schäfermann, Emmanuel Wemakor, Cathrin Hauk, Lutz Heide   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

How much are you willing to pay to avoid lockdowns? Evidence from the real estate market

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, numerous countries implemented lockdowns. In Victoria, Australia, a unique two‐tier system was employed, segregating areas with a Ring of Steel boundary and imposing additional restrictions within. This study focuses on the impact of lockdowns on housing prices and rents, exploring whether people are ...
Jian Liang, Chyi Lin Lee, Qiang Li
wiley   +1 more source

Biochemical profiling provides a low-cost and globally accessible method to detect falsified vaccines and insulin

Scientific Reports
For many decades, there have been numerous reported cases of falsified liquid medical products, including vaccine and insulin preparations worldwide, but to date, there has been a lack of affordable and accessible analytical methods for biological ...
Jennifer Brook, Tehmina Bharucha, Benediktus Yohan Arman, Céline Caillet, Susan Morris, Michelle Taylor-Siddons, Laura Gomez Fernandez, John Walsby-Tickle, Isabelle Legge, Sneha Banerjee, Michael Deats, Rajender Jena, Dnyanesh S. Ranade, Shrikrishna R. Chunekar, Kundan D. Patil, Sunil Gairola, Susanna Dunachie, Hamid A. Merchant, Robert Stokes, Rutendo Kuwana, Alexandrine Maes, Sarah Gilbert, James McCullagh, Pavel Matousek, Nicole Zitzmann, Paul N. Newton, Bevin Gangadharan, Tim James   +27 more
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What anabolic–androgenic steroids reveal about the limits of current harm reduction models

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Harm reduction has largely been shaped by responses to psychoactive drug use where the most urgent harms are acute. These models focus on overdose, blood‐borne viruses, and rapid‐onset toxicity related harms. When applied wholesale to anabolic–androgenic steroids (AAS), they obscure the distinctive pharmacology, consumer typologies,
Timothy Piatkowski, Jason M. Nagata, Suzanne Nielsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying market risk for substandard and falsified medicines: an analytic framework based on qualitative research in China, Indonesia, Turkey and Romania [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2019
Introduction: Substandard and falsified medicines undermine health systems. We sought to unravel the political and economic factors which drive the production of these products, and to explain how they reach patients.
Elizabeth Pisani, Adina-Loredana Nistor, Amalia Hasnida, Koray Parmaksiz, Jingying Xu, Maarten Oliver Kok   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Real‐world comparative effects of slow‐release oral morphine vs. methadone on healthcare use for opioid use disorder: A population‐based target trial emulation

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims To examine the comparative effects of slow‐release oral morphine (SROM) vs. methadone for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) on healthcare use. Design This retrospective cohort study emulated a target trial using electronic medical record data from Vancouver Coastal Health Authority linked with population‐based administrative ...
Vivienne Y. Zhou, Nadia Fairbairn, Jingxin Lei, Rupinder Brar, Paxton Bach, M. Eugenia Socias   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicines Information Services: Current State and the Strategy for 2020 [PDF]

, 2012
RATIONAL USE OF MEDICINES THROUGH INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE. Vision: Finland will have in place a multidisciplinary national network of pharmaceutical sector stakeholders to produce and disseminate evidence-based, objective and reliable information to ...

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