by Dr Mark Taubert, Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Clinical Director for Palliative Medicine at Velindre NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK. Twitter: @DrMarkTaubert Finding the conversations that interest you most on Twitter can either be easy or difficult, depending on the complexity of what you are looking for. For instance, if you want to know what […]
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News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com
Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Safety Updates MHRA further measures to minimise risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw with denosumab and IV bisphosphonates Following a review by MHRA and other EU regulators, denosumab 120mg is now […]
BMJ Awards – 2015 Palliative Care Team of the Year
Read about the winning team for 2015’s BMJ Awards Palliative Care Team of the Year and their innovative approach to palliative care for all patients. http://www.bmj.com/company/who-we-are/case-studies/changing-end-of-life-care/ […]
News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com
Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Hot topics Cochrane review: Palliative interventions for controlling vaginal bleeding in advanced cervical cancer This new Cochrane review (CD011000) has been published in full on-line. Drug updates Co-danthramer and […]
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Support Care Cancer. 2015 Mar 21. [Epub ahead of print] What bothers lung cancer patients the most? A prospective, longitudinal electronic patient-reported outcomes study in advanced non-small cell lung cancer. LeBlanc TW, Nickolich M, Rushing CN, Samsa GP, Locke SC, Abernethy AP. In a longitudinal single-site symptom study in 2008, 97 patients with advanced […]
News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com
Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Safety updates MHRA: Tramadol 50mg capsules batch recall All unexpired batches of tramadol 50mg capsules from RelonChem Ltd/Kent Pharmaceuticals have been recalled due to the risk of fungal contamination. For more […]
A Guide to Using Pinterest for Palliative Care
Marie Ennis-O’Connor is a social media consultant, award-winning health blogger, and author of “Beyond The Buzz: Healthcare Social Media” Have you noticed how visual and colourful social media have become? Platforms that focus on visuals (like photos) such as Pinterest have grown in popularity, and it has been shown that visual media increase the rate of engagement when […]
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Safety updates Potential risk of error in selecting incorrect oxycodone strength The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) has warned that incidents have occurred involving the selection of the wrong strength of oxycodone oral solution by prescribers on Egton Medical Information Systems (EMIS), used by GP surgeries. This appears to be due to the fact that the oxycodone 10mg/mL solution […]
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Acta Oncol. 2014 Oct 7:1-7. A prospective analysis on fatigue and experienced burden in informal caregivers of cancer patients during cancer treatment in the palliative phase Peters ME, Goedendorp MM, Verhagen SA, Smilde TJ, Bleijenberg G, van der Graaf WT. Patients on palliative oncological treatment and their carers completed the Checklist Individual Strength questionnaire to […]
A Starter’s Guide to Twitter and Hashtags for Hospice and Palliative Medicine
By Dr Matthew Katz, MD @subatomicdoc Department of Radiation Medicine Lowell General Hospital MA 01854 USA Many people find Twitter a bit confusing when they first sign up. This article aims to help palliative care professionals ease their way in, and find it an educationally valuable tool. And turning it the other way round, how can […]