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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

This of course, make sense—after decades of experience implementing the Hatch-Waxman, Congress and FDA had learned a few new tricks by 2009/2010. solid oral dosage forms),” which, FDA posits, suggests “that the terms have overlapping meanings.” FDA borrowed this definition from 21 C.F.R. mg) and the concentration (e.g.,

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Glaucoma

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If response to a prostaglandin analogue is poor, switching to another one may be effective as drugs in this class are structurally different.

Dosage 52
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Decision Making in Hospital Pharmacy

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To ensure patient safety , you decide to contact the doctor to verify if the increase in dosage was intentional or a prescribing error. External Links Medicines Learning Portal - Decision Making Medicines Learning Portal - On-call Training Albendazole (Zentel) listing extended to treat hookworm and strongyloidiasis, 2010

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Parkinson Disease

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May allow a reduction in levodopa dosage. Apomorphine (intermittent SC injection or continuous infusion with a portable pump) Useful in people severely disabled by motor fluctuations refractory to conventional treatment. Is highly emetogenic and requires pre-treatment with domperidone to reduce nausea.

Dosage 40
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Tranexamic Acid

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Dosage varies, according to the heaviness and duration of bleeding: 1 to 1.5 Menorrhagia Menorrhagia is excessive (heavy) menstrual blood loss (i.e. blood loss of 60-80 ml or more period, compared with average loss of 30-40 ml), which occurs over several consecutive cycles. g 3 or 4 times daily for the first 3-5 days of each cycle.

Dosage 40
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Menopause

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External Links Therapeutic Guidelines - Overview of Menopause Management of menopause, 2023 Nonhormonal therapies for menopausal hot flashes: systematic review and meta-analysis, 2006 The effect of dietary soy supplementation compared to estrogen and placebo on menopausal symptoms: a randomized controlled trial, 2010 Pooled Analysis of Six Pharmacologic (..)

Dosage 52
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Computed tomography for in-depth investigation of freeze-dried products

European Pharmaceutical Review

X-ray technology is also increasingly used in pharmaceutical R&D, particularly for examining solid dosage forms, an application for which this technology can be seamlessly adopted. He currently works as a Chief Scientific Officer at GILYOS GmbH, a CRO for freeze-dried products, which he founded in 2010. Hancock BC, Mullarney MP.

Dosage 81