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Accelerated approval of anticancer drugs: a safe choice?

All oncologists know how anxiously cancer patients look forward to the availability in clinical practice of drugs that have yielded positive results in the registration trials.

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Medication review and deprescribing: from theory to implementation in different care settings

Medication review and deprescribingThe increase in life expectancy and the growing availability of effective drugs for the management of chronic diseases are leading to an increase in the number of patients, suffering of multimorbidity, in polypharmacotherapy (regular intake of at least five...

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Drugs & Elderly

Safety of drugs in the elderly population in Italy

In recent years, the concept of deprescribing has been introduced, based on the reduction of the number of drugs taken in order to optimize the risk-benefit ratio of polypharmacy taking into account the goals of treatment and the preferences of the patient; however, the available intervention...

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From regulatory agencies

13 June 2025 CADTH finerenone	13 June 2025 FDA Liquid Bicarbonate Concentrate Recall: Nipro Removes MedicaLyte Liquid Bicarbonate Concentrate due to Contamination
13 June 2025 FDA Intra-Operative Positioning System Guidewire Recall: Centerline Biomedical Removes Certain IOPS Guidewires due to Delamination	12 June 2025 CADTH L’échoguidage au lieu d’intervention dans l’insertion d’un cathéter veineux central comparativement à la méthode des repères anatomiques
12 June 2025 CADTH atezolizumab	12 June 2025 CADTH Examen des données probantes sur Spinraza (nusinersen) et Evrysdi (risdiplam) dans le traitement de l’amyotrophie spinale chez l’adulte
11 June 2025 FDA Medtronic Announces Voluntary Recall of Select Newport™ HT70 and Newport™ HT70 Plus Ventilators and Certain Related Newport™ Service Parts	10 June 2025 CADTH Antiviral Drugs for Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Against Influenza A or Influenza B
10 June 2025 CADTH toripalimab	10 June 2025 CADTH toripalimab

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Maria and Ivo: two stories, the same diagnostic suspicion

For privacy reasons case reports are written in way to make the patient unidentifiable. The two cases have been reported to the Italian National Pharmacovigilance Network.

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