Etiket: medicines
How pharmacists help desperate patients with scarce medicines
Empty drawers in the pharmacy and hopeless people at the counter: the screaming shortage of medicines is a national problem with no ready-made solution. Care editor Lineke Nieber accompanied a…
What does NRC | The bottom of the market for generic medicines now seems to have been reached
This is the daily commentary from NRC. It contains opinions, interpretations and choices. They are written by a group of editors selected by the editor-in-chief. NRC shows where in the…
Increase maximum prices to keep medicines available | News item
News item | 27-01-2023 | 3:30 pm The maximum prices of medicines with a relatively low turnover will be increased by 15 percent. The Council of Ministers has approved a…
The shortage of medicines is entrenched in Spanish pharmacies
The drug supply problems of the spanish pharmacies have worsened in recent years. This Friday, January 27, the number of active supply problems has reached a total of 674. In…
Possible shortage of medicines due to bankruptcy InnoGenerics
InnoGenerics, a large Dutch drug manufacturer, has been declared bankrupt. Minister Ernst Kuipers (Public Health, Welfare and Sport, D66) has Tuesday in a letter inform the House. According to him,…
European medicines agency calls for a ban on a range of cough syrups
A series of cough medicines containing the substance pholcodine should be banned in the European Union because they can lead to a dangerous allergic reaction with general anesthesia. That says…
Van verkeerde medicines tot verkeerde dose: about 1,200 Vlaamse rusthuisbewoners hadden in 2021 a “medicijnincident” | landlocked
Net geen 2 percent of all residents of the woonzorgcentra in Vlaanderen had in 2021 a registered “medicijnincident”. That will count about 1,269 mensen and verkeerde dose names, the medicines…
EU buys medicines for 10,000 monkeypox patients
The European Commission has bought medicines to treat more than 10,000 monkeypox patients. The Netherlands can also claim the prescribed courses of the virus inhibitor tecovirimat. The monkeypox virus seems…
Do we treat Covid patients differently now than at the start of the pandemic? Pulmonologist Bart Lambrecht: “We use medicines as old as the street” | Inland
There is one big difference between the recent and previous treatment of Covid in our country: the drugs that are used to help patients recover. Not only are there many…
Has treatment of corona patients changed? Pulmonologist Bart Lambrecht: “We sometimes work with medicines as old as the street”
We are still doing the same as at the beginning of the pandemic: giving oxygen, ventilating, turning the patient over regularly, making sure no infections are added… Although there is…