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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

23 June 2025 FDA Transderm Scōp (Scopolamine Transdermal System): Drug Safety Communication - FDA Adds Warning About Serious Risk of Heat-Related Complications with Antinausea Patch	19 June 2025 CADTH Niraparib
19 June 2025 CADTH Olaparib	19 June 2025 CADTH olezarsen
19 June 2025 CADTH Cancer colorectal	17 June 2025 FDA Aspiration Catheter Recall: Q’Apel Medical, Inc. Removes Hippo 072 Aspiration System and Cheetah Delivery Tool After FDA Warning Letter About Internal Processes and Distal Tip Characteristics
17 June 2025 FDA Blood Products Administration Set Recall: Fresenius Kabi Removes Large Volume Pump Blood Products Administration Sets due to Incorrect Assembly	17 June 2025 FDA Convenience Kit Recall: Medline Industries, LP, Removes Medline Neonatal and Pediatric Kits containing Smiths Medical ORAL/NASAL Endotracheal Tubes Due to Smaller Than Expected Tube Diameter That May Cause Underventilation
16 June 2025 CADTH Le recours au bacille de Calmette-Guérin dans le traitement du cancer de la vessie au Canada	16 June 2025 FDA Infusion Pump Recall: Zyno Medical Removes Certain Z-800 Series Infusion Pumps due to Software Issue

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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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