Opioid treatment program prescribing of methadone with community pharmacy dispensing: Pilot study of feasibility and acceptability

Access to methadone for opioid use disorder (OUD) in the United States remains limited to regulated and certified Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs).Collaboration between OTPs and community pharmacies would increase access to and potentially satisfaction with methadone delivery.While it remains illegal for prescribers to write, and pharmacies to disp

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Transfusion-transmitted hepatitis E

Hepatitis E is an acute and self-limiting viral hepatitis caused by the hepatitis E virus (HEV).It has a higher mortality rate SHOPPING CENTERS: UMA RELAÇÃO ENTRE OS ATRIBUTOS DE ESCOLHA PELOS CONSUMIDORES VERSUS OS ATRIBUTOS VALORIZADOS PELOS GERENTES among immunosuppressed patients and pregnant women infected with HEV.Although HEV infections in

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Harnessing case isolation and ring vaccination to control Ebola.

As a devastating Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues, non-pharmaceutical control measures including contact tracing, quarantine, and case isolation are being implemented.In addition, public health agencies are scaling up efforts to test and deploy candidate vaccines.Given the experimental nature and limited initial supplies of vaccines, a mass

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The failure of the U.S. education research establishment to identify effective practices: Beware effective practices policies

One of the major successes of advanced quantitative methods has been its seeming ability to provide unbiased determinations of which education practices are effective for education in general and for improving the educational achievement and opportunity of the neediest students.The power of this methodology as applied in the top education research

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