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Pregnancy and the Pharmaceutical Industry

Pregnancy and the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Author : Kristine E. Shields
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • Release Date : 2019-06-05
  • Total pages : 244
  • ISBN : 9780128190746
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Pregnancy and the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Movement towards Evidence-Based Care for Pregnant Women explores the issues surrounding the decision to undertake clinical trials with pregnant women. There is currently a lack of data on the safety and effectiveness of medications used during pregnancy as it is impossible to extrapolate that information from drug studies on men and non-pregnant women. As a majority of pregnant women confront a medical condition during their pregnancy, from simple pain, to ongoing or new medical issues, this book quantifies the current absence of pregnant women in drug studies and identifies ethical issues, barriers, litigation fears and opportunities. Those in the pharmaceutical industry, IRB members who approve or deny drug study plans, doctors, nurses and midwives working in obstetrics or involved in conducting studies at their institutions will find this book an essential resource. Explores the medical, ethical, scientific and legal rationales behind the inclusion of pregnant women in drug studies Describes how pharma and biotech companies can safely implement the new FDA guidance and begin to include pregnant women in drug testing Shares views from pharmaceutical industry insiders about company risks, reluctance to implement guidance, and the ultimate need to include pregnant women in studies

Improved Drug Therapy in Pregnancy and in Neonatology

Improved Drug Therapy in Pregnancy and in Neonatology
  • Author : Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Canada. Medical Research and Development Section
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 2023
  • Total pages : 229
  • ISBN : OCLC:497449540
  • File Size : 53,9 Mb
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PDF book entitled Improved Drug Therapy in Pregnancy and in Neonatology written by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Canada. Medical Research and Development Section and published by Unknown which was released on 2023 with total hardcover pages 229, the book become popular and critical acclaim.

New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research

New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research
  • Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release Date : 2004-04-12
  • Total pages : 249
  • ISBN : 9780309091077
  • File Size : 44,8 Mb
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More than a quarter of pregnancies worldwide are unintended. Between 1995 and 2000, nearly 700,000 women died and many more experienced illness, injury, and disability as a result of unintended pregnancy. Children born from unplanned conception are at greater risk of low birth weight, of being abused, and of not receiving sufficient resources for healthy development. A wider range of contraceptive options is needed to address the changing needs of the populations of the world across the reproductive life cycle, but this unmet need has not been a major priority of the research community and pharmaceutical industry. New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research: A Blueprint for Action, a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, identifies priority areas for research to develop new contraceptives. The report highlights new technologies and approaches to biomedical research, including genomics and proteomics, which hold particular promise for developing new products. It also identifies impediments to drug development that must be addressed. Research sponsors, both public and private, will find topics of interest among the recommendations, which are diverse but interconnected and important for improving the range of contraceptive products, their efficacy, and their acceptability.

Pregnancy

Pregnancy
  • Author : Benjamin Ogbonna
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 2007
  • Total pages : 144
  • ISBN : 1434346420
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Pregnancy is an event in a woman's life that calls for joy and happiness. This is in anticipation of the birth of a new baby into the world. It is usually an uneventful experience especially in the western world and where problems arise, help is always available. Not so in the Sub-Saharan African region where pregnancy is a source of sorrow and pain for the vast majority of women. Certainly not in a situation where 1 out of 16 pregnant women dies as a result of complications of pregnancy. This book brings to the front burner the issue of maternal deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa. It should make an interesting reading for people in the western world to enable them to fully appreciate what is happening in other places. It is a book that bares it all; more like washing your dirty linen in the public. For people in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is a book that is intended to rouse them from their protracted slumber to enable them appreciate that there is a problem that needs urgent attention. The various causes of maternal deaths are discussed in details and solutions are proffered were necessary to help the people that are directly involved. The book also acknowledges the efforts of charitable organizations around the world that have been actively involved towards reducing the deaths that occur in pregnancy in the region. More help is however needed from Pharmaceutical Companies towards the provision of cheap retroviral drugs to fight the ravages of HIV infection in the region. This book is written in a language that has reduced to the barest minimum medical terminologies for easy readership by the general public.

Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes

Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
  • Author : Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ
  • Publisher : Government Printing Office
  • Release Date : 2014-04-01
  • Total pages : 356
  • ISBN : 9781587634338
  • File Size : 42,6 Mb
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This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.

Adverse Effects

Adverse Effects
  • Author : Kathleen McDonnell
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 1986
  • Total pages : 264
  • ISBN : CORNELL:31924052345398
  • File Size : 22,9 Mb
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Contraceptive Research and Development

Contraceptive Research and Development
  • Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Contraceptive Research and Development
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release Date : 1996-12-04
  • Total pages : 535
  • ISBN : 9780309054423
  • File Size : 23,7 Mb
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The "contraceptive revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s introduced totally new contraceptive options and launched an era of research and product development. Yet by the late 1980s, conditions had changed and improvements in contraceptive products, while very important in relation to improved oral contraceptives, IUDs, implants, and injectables, had become primarily incremental. Is it time for a second contraceptive revolution and how might it happen? Contraceptive Research and Development explores the frontiers of science where the contraceptives of the future are likely to be found and lays out criteria for deciding where to make the next R&D investments. The book comprehensively examines today's contraceptive needs, identifies "niches" in those needs that seem most readily translatable into market terms, and scrutinizes issues that shape the market: method side effects and contraceptive failure, the challenge of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and the implications of the "women's agenda." Contraceptive Research and Development analyzes the response of the pharmaceutical industry to current dynamics in regulation, liability, public opinion, and the economics of the health sector and offers an integrated set of recommendations for public- and private-sector action to meet a whole new generation of demand.

Generic Alternatives to Prescription Drugs

Generic Alternatives to Prescription Drugs
  • Author : Diane Nitzki-George
  • Publisher : Basic Health Publications, Inc.
  • Release Date : 2003-09
  • Total pages : 1260
  • ISBN : 1591200989
  • File Size : 24,8 Mb
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The prescription your doctor writes may not be the final word on your treatment. With rising out-of-pocket expenses and copayments, you may be spending far too much money on prescription durgs. The solution? You can often save money by asking your physician or pharmacist to substitute generic equivalents for many well-known prescription drugs. These generics contain the exact same active ingredients as brand-name drugs, but usually at a considerably lower cost. You can also take more control of your medical care by understanding the most common side effects and drug interactions you are likely to experience and by asking about alternative medications. In Generic Alternatives to Prescription Drugs, licensed pharmacist and pharmaceutical industry veteran Diane Nitzki-George, RPh, MBA, BCNSP, provides a wealth of information to help you make informed choices about the medications your doctor prescribes. She describes hundreds of prescription drugs sold through pharmacies, mail order, and the Internet in an easy-to-use alphabetical listing with simple, clear information. Book jacket.

American Druggist

American Druggist
  • Author : Anonim
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 1999
  • Total pages : 868
  • ISBN : CORNELL:31924088571231
  • File Size : 54,7 Mb
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Drugs in Pregnancy, Paediatrics and Geriatrics

Drugs in Pregnancy, Paediatrics and Geriatrics
  • Author : A. M. Edwards
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • Release Date : 1981
  • Total pages : 229
  • ISBN : OCLC:28837551
  • File Size : 28,7 Mb
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Conception, Pregnancy & Birth

Conception, Pregnancy & Birth
  • Author : Miriam Stoppard
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release Date : 2008-06-30
  • Total pages : 378
  • ISBN : 9780756652104
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Widely accepted as the definitive guide to pregnancy andchildbirth, Dr. Miriam Stoppard’s Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth has sold well over a million copies since it was firstpublished. This new edition has not only been given a completely new look with stunning new photography but it has also been updated and re-written with 20-25 percent new material. New information will cover the latest developments in pregnancy and birth, from up-to-date research on how your stress levels can affect your unborn baby to new developments in delivering your baby.

Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation

Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation
  • Author : Christof Schaefer,Paul W.J. Peters,Richard K Miller
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • Release Date : 2014-09-17
  • Total pages : 918
  • ISBN : 9780124079014
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Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation, 3rd Edition is a quick and reliable reference for all those working in disciplines related to fertility, pregnancy, lactation, child health and human genetics who prescribe or deliver medicinal products, and to those who evaluate health and safety risks. Each chapter contains twofold information regarding drugs that are appropriate for prescription during pregnancy and an assessment of the risk of a drug when exposure during pregnancy has already occurred. Thoroughly updated with current regulations, references to the latest pharmacological data, and new medicinal products, this edition is a comprehensive resource covering latest knowledge and findings related to drugs during lactation and pregnancy. Provides evidence-based recommendations to help clinicians make appropriate recommendations Uniquely organized and structured according to drug class and treatment indications to offer authoritative clinical content on potential adverse effects Highlights new research developments from primary source about working mechanism of substances that cause developmental disorders

First-Time Parents

First-Time Parents
  • Author : Miriam Stoppard
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release Date : 2009-03-02
  • Total pages : 196
  • ISBN : 9780756663445
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First-time Parents is an updated and redesigned edition of a practical guide to parenting that focuses especially on first-time parents. There is advice on pregnancy and birth; day-to-day babycare – feeding, washing and dressing; as well as guidance on the longer-term emotional issues of adapting to becoming a family. The book also addresses all other issues such as maintaining your relationship and going back to work. There are special panels that give, not only the mother’s, but also the father’s, points of view on a variety ofissues to help both parents understand the other’s needs. In this easy-to-read guide, Miriam Stoppard gives new mothers and fathers the confidence to fashion their own brand of family life.

Adverse Reactions to Drugs

Adverse Reactions to Drugs
  • Author : O. L. Wade,Linda Beeley
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release Date : 2013-10-22
  • Total pages : 240
  • ISBN : 9781483141770
  • File Size : 52,9 Mb
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Adverse Reactions to Drugs, Second Edition focuses on the problems posed by the adverse responses to drugs, as well as drug interactions, dosage, and drug metabolism. The publication first tackles adverse reactions and factors which predispose to adverse drug reactions. Topics include dose adjustment, overdose, renal failure, cumulation, side effects, drug allergy, cumulative overdose, and delayed effects. The text then ponders on drug interactions, including renal excretion, drug metabolism, mutual toxicity, and interactions affecting transport to site of action. The manuscript examines adverse reactions in dental practice, drugs used in pregnancy, the neonate, and lactation, and problems for the pharmaceutical industry before marketing a new drug. Discussions focus on ethical problems of drug studies in man, pregnancy, hemorrhage, oxygen toxicity, chloramphenicol, drugs and lactation, drugs used in dental practice, and local anesthetics. The book then elaborates on monitoring adverse reactions to drugs and the therapeutic audit and drug regulatory bodies and their problems. The publication is a valuable source of data for doctors and dentists wanting to focus on research on the adverse reaction to drugs.

Baby's First Skills

Baby's First Skills
  • Author : Miriam Stoppard
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release Date : 2009-03-02
  • Total pages : 116
  • ISBN : 9780756659608
  • File Size : 35,9 Mb
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Perfect for busy parents or caregivers, this revised edition of Baby''s First Skills provides the necessary tools to help babies, through the age of 12 months, develop a wide range of early learning skills. Creative play and activities such as building and clapping games, sand play, matching and sorting, lullabies, puppet play and bath-time fun, help ensure healthy mental development and speech, coordination, movement, and social skills.

Trusted Advice Your Healthy Child

Trusted Advice Your Healthy Child
  • Author : Miriam Stoppard
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release Date : 2010-12-20
  • Total pages : 130
  • ISBN : 9780756673840
  • File Size : 50,9 Mb
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Your Healthy Child addresses common childhood illnesses, their symptoms, and treatment. It includes simple diagnostic detail on 80 typical childhood complaints, ranging from colds to meningitis, with easy-to-follow advice on what parents can do to treat their child, and when to call a doctor. Includes an A-Z index of complaints for easy reference.

Women and Health Research

Women and Health Research
  • Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Ethical and Legal Issues Relating to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Studies
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release Date : 1994-02-01
  • Total pages : 286
  • ISBN : 9780309049924
  • File Size : 25,9 Mb
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In the nineteenth century some scientists argued that women should not be educated because thinking would use energy needed by the uterus for reproduction. The proof? Educated women had a lower birth rate. Today's researchers can only shake their heads at such reasoning. Yet professional journals and the popular press are increasingly criticizing medical research for ignoring women's health issues. Women and Health Research examines the facts behind the public's perceptions about women participating as subjects in medical research. With the goal of increasing researchers' awareness of this important topic, the book explores issues related to maintaining justice (in its ethical sense) in clinical studies. Leading experts present general principles for the ethical conduct of research on womenâ€"principles that are especially important in the light of recent changes in federal policy on the inclusion of women in clinical research. Women and Health Research documents the historical shift from a paternalistic approach by researchers toward women and a disproportionate reliance on certain groups for research to one that emphasizes proper access for women as subjects in clinical studies in order to ensure that women receive the benefits of research. The book addresses present-day challenges to equity in four areas: Scientificâ€"Do practical aspects of scientific research work at cross-purposes to gender equity? Focusing on drug trials, the authors identify rationales for excluding people from research based on demographics. Social and Ethicalâ€"The authors offer compelling discussions on subjectivity in science, the evidence for male bias, and issues related to race and ethnicity, as well as the recruitment, retention, and protection of research participants. Legalâ€"Women and Health Research reviews federal research policies that affect the inclusion of women and evaluates the basis for researchers' fears about liability, citing court cases. Riskâ€"The authors focus on risks to reproduction and offspring in clinical drug trials, exploring how risks can be identified for study participants, who should make the assessment of risk and benefit for participation in a clinical study, and how legal implications could be addressed. This landmark study will be of immediate use to the research community, policymakers, women's health advocates, attorneys, and individuals.

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic
  • Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Pain Management and Regulatory Strategies to Address Prescription Opioid Abuse
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release Date : 2017-09-28
  • Total pages : 482
  • ISBN : 9780309459570
  • File Size : 17,8 Mb
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Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

New Pregnancy and Birth

New Pregnancy and Birth
  • Author : Miriam Stoppard
  • Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
  • Release Date : 2009-01-02
  • Total pages : 258
  • ISBN : 9781405339568
  • File Size : 24,9 Mb
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Updated, trusted advice for parents-to-be from expert Dr Miriam Stoppard From Britain's most trusted pregnancy and babycare expert Dr Miriam Stoppard, a guide to every magical stage of your pregnancy, from pre-conception planning to the first days of life. Packed with reassuring, fully updated advice on fertility treatment, antenatal care, nutrition, exercise and your choices in childbirth and special sections on working mothers and expectant fathers - keep it close so there's always somewhere to turn if you have a question. A month-by-month pregnancy calendar showing your baby's development in the womb means you'll know what's happening when. Perfect for knowing what you will go through at every stage.

Bad Medicine

Bad Medicine
  • Author : Milton Silverman,Mia Lydecker,Philip Lee
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release Date : 1992-05-01
  • Total pages : 380
  • ISBN : 9780804766678
  • File Size : 29,7 Mb
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The pharmaceutical industry has long and vehemently insisted that it has the willingness, the dedication, and the ability to police itself to insure that the public will not be unnecessarily harmed or defrauded. As the record shows with painful clarity, however, virtually no industry or professional group has ever adequately policed itself, and the pharmaceutical industry is no exception. Where the most flagrant abuses have been exposed and corrected, major credit must probably be divided among the media that publicized the situation, consumer groups that applied pressure, government officials who took actions that were often unpopular, and individual members of the pharmaceutical industry who had the courage to face up to their social responsibilities. In this book, the authors turn their attention to what happened in Third World countries when, because of worldwide pressures, the multinational drug companies largely corrected their notorious abuses. On the basis of painstaking research, much of it conducted in a great many Third World countries, the authors conclude that a plethora of small local firms have filled the dishonest sales channels vacated by the multinationals. The authors show in great detail how local drug firms in the Third World have taken advantage of loose regulatory practices and unscrupulous behavior on the part of regional and national health care professionals to promote the sale of dangerous or worthless drugs as remedies for diseases for which they were never intended. Warnings of bad side effects are omitted from promotional literature, drugs are sold that have not had proper trials, and drug firms have often bribed government officials, doctors, and hospital administrators in order to gain favorable treatment in the importation and sale of their products. Among the many topics treated in this book are the controversy over inexpensive generic drugs (including disclosures of fraud and bribery in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration), the actions of consumer groups, and the key role of government in preventing abuses by drug firms. The authors describe a remarkable attempt in Bangladesh, one of the poorest of all the developing countries, to develop a high-quality local drug industry. They also present as case histories reports on three extremely important drug products or groups—the dipyrones (for control of pain and fever), high-dosage estrogen-progesterone hormone products (for use in pregnancy tests), and clioquinol or Enterovioform (for treatment of diarrhea)—all of which were or still are centers of worldwide, heated controversy.

New Babycare

New Babycare
  • Author : Miriam Stoppard
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release Date : 2008-12-15
  • Total pages : 354
  • ISBN : 9780756659639
  • File Size : 37,7 Mb
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New Babycare is revised edition of Dr. Miriam Stoppard’s classic babycare companion. This book offers the latest advice on all aspects of babycare, from feeding, washing, and dressing to how to express breast milk, how to give your baby medicine, dealing with sleeping problems, and more. Dr. Miriam Stoppard is a best-selling medical writer and broadcaster, and in her daily column for the UK newspaper The Mirror, she has helped millions of people deal with life’s emotional problems and health issues. Well knownfor her practical, sympathetic approach to childcare, her aim is to give readers “the confidence to follow their own instincts.” Miriam Stoppard has been at the forefront of the revolution in health information since she began her writing and broadcasting career in the early 1970s.