Factors influencing generics and fixed dose combinations recommendation by pharmacists for cardiology patients

Fixed-dose single tablet antidiabetic combinations.

Combinations of two or more oral agents with different mechanisms of action are often used for the management of hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes. While these combinations have customarily been taken as separate tablets, several fixed-dose single tablet combinations are now available. These are based on bioequivalence with the separate tablets, giving similar efficacy to the separate tablets a...

The renaissance of fixed dose combinations: Combivir

Combivir is a fixed dose combination tablet of two antiretroviral drugs; zidovudine and lamivudine, used in the treatment of HIV-1 infection. AZT was the first antiretroviral used in clinical trials and the addition of lamivudine improved its effectiveness. With the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy in the form of a combination of three drugs including two nucleoside analogue...

FACTORS INFLUENCING PHYSICIANS’ WILLINGNESS TO SUBSTITUTE GENERICS FOR BRAND-NAMES WHEN PRESCRIBING ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS by

comparison radiation dose in interventional cardiology between iran and other countries: evaluation influencing factors

methods in this article we checked the derived data from 20 relevant studies published during the last 20 years in international scientific literature at other country except iran and 10 studies from iran. the variables dose-area product (dap), fluoroscopy time, number of sequences and frames per sequence were collected for each ca, ptca, rfa and diagnostic electrophysiology and then the obtain...

Irrational fixed dose combinations in Nepal: need for intervention.

A large proportion of drugs available are of little importance in terms of fulfilling primary healthcare needs. Combination drugs increase the risk of side effects, lead to an ineffective dosage and liability to abuse and may also needlessly increase the cost. Drug combinations make it more difficult to find the causative agent responsible for the adverse reactions. In many cases their stabilit...