New Guidance On Making Work Less Of A Pain In The Back New guidance for employers, patients and doctors on helping people with back pain return to work will be announced on Tuesday May 5 at the University of Leicester. It is estimated that it costs society in excess of £12 billion a year with people taking time off work because of back pain. Around 80% of these costs, were not associated with healthcare but due to lost work production and associated wage replacement benefits.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comUnder 16s Advised Against Taking Oral Choline Salicylate Gels The National
Pharmacy Association is advising its members to adhere to the latest precautionary advice from the MHRA on topical oral pain relief gels containing choline salicylate which now should not be sold for use in those under the age of 16.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comInterventions Appear Related To Reduced Risk Of Adverse Drug Events Interventions that included enhanced communication between a pharmacist and patients and physicians and computerized organization of a patient's medications appear to be associated with a decreased risk of adverse drug events, according to two articles appearing in the April 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Adverse drug events (ADEs) and medication errors (MEs) are common and costly threats to the quality of care.
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