Substandard, Spurious, Falsely-Labelled, Falsified and Counterfeit (SSFFC) drugs are an emerging public health concern in India. With one of the huge pharmaceutical sectors in the world, India has a varied prevalence of SSSFC drugs ranging from 0.04% to 34% according to various studies. Apart from severe health consequences, SSSFC drugs also weaken community's trust in the health care system. I...

The drug taking habits and compliance of 16 epileptic children were studied by means of a questionnaire, "pill" count and serum antiepileptic drug levels (AEDL). The questionnaire method overestimated patients' compliance while, because of the pharmacokinetics of antiepileptic drugs in children, single outpatients' drug levels may be misleading thereby not always reflecting the true degree of c...

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A young teenager with no known medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) with abrupt onset of palpitations and dizziness. She later had a generalised tonic colonic seizure, and a bout of vomiting containing pills. She admitted to have had an overdose of bupropion pills. A pill count was performed and her total dose ingestion was calculated to be 3.6 g. A 12-l...

Diana Mansour, in her commentary1 in the July 2011 issue of this Journal, pointed out the inadequacy of the wording of the emergency contraception advice in the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority’s Combined Oral Contraceptives (The Pill): When to Start Taking The Pill, and Missed Pill Advice.2 We also need to remember the women who have forgotten one pill in the week before ...

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY Men's and women's attitudes towards the male contraceptive pill and their trust in the effective use of the male pill were investigated, as well as the associated variables of reported health behaviours, perceived self-efficacy and type of sexual relationship, using a questionnaire survey. RESULTS Although both sexes had a favourable attitude towards the male pill, ...

CONTEXT Although studies have examined U.S. pill users' patterns of discontinuation, little is known about pill discontinuation, and the effects of partner influence, among Hispanics. METHODS Follow-up data on pill use were collected from 213 predominantly Hispanic women who requested the pill in an urban family planning clinic in 2000. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to assess th...

The side-effects encountered by 1,090 patients taking the oral contraceptive pill were reviewed. The main side-effects were migraine, headaches, weight gain, depression, and irregular bleeding. Reasons for changing the Pill are discussed, and recommendations are suggested for a way of monitoring patients taking the Pill. Analysis of the results show that 50 per cent of patients are happy with t...

The label on a bottle of pills says “Take one half pill daily.” A natural way to proceed is as follows: Every day, remove a pill from the bottle at random. If it is a whole pill, break it in half, take one half, and return the other half to the bottle; if it is a half pill, take it. We analyze the history of such a pill bottle.

OBJECTIVES Single-pill combination therapy (amlodipine/atorvastatin) might be more effective than double-pill therapy (amlodipine+atorvastatin) in patients with diabetes and concomitant hypertension requiring statin therapy. We compared the cost-effectiveness of a single-pill with that of double-pill for control of low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels, with the ultimate goal of ca...