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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

14 February 2025 CADTH
risankizumab
14 February 2025 FDA
ICU Medical Issues Nationwide Recall of Potassium Chloride Injection, 20 mEq and Potassium Chloride Injection, 10 mEq Due to Mislabeling
13 February 2025 CADTH
asciminib
13 February 2025 CADTH
talazoparib
13 February 2025 CADTH
Melanoma
11 February 2025 CADTH
Le traitement par ondes de choc du dysfonctionnement érectile
11 February 2025 CADTH
nivolumab et ipilimumab
11 February 2025 CADTH
acalabrutinib
10 February 2025 CADTH
pembrolizumab
10 February 2025 FDA
Breathing Circuit Kit Recall: Sentec/Percussionaire Removes VDR4 Phasitron Breathing Circuits due to Venturi Component Malfunctions that May Reduce Pressure and Volume Flow
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