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December 2025
Have you read all the articles we published on patient safety in 2025?
Here’s a handy reminder of all the patient safety topics we’ve covered on PharmaceuticalPress.com in 2025. From adverse...
November 2025
Look-alike sound-alike drugs and medication errors
Medication errors are a major cause of preventable harm to patients globally.¹ One well-recognised cause of these errors...
November 2025
How to calculate creatinine clearance
Creatinine clearance (CrCl) is a key measurement used to estimate kidney function and guide safe drug prescribing.¹ ²...
September 2025
BNFC 20-year anniversary: Editorial retrospective
Practical and evidence-based, BNF for Children (BNFC) is the only child-focused drug formulary in the world that is...
August 2025
What is polypharmacy?
Polypharmacy means “many medications” and the term is used when people are regularly taking multiple medicines.¹ ² ³...
June 2025
Dietary supplements: how to help patients optimise their micronutrient intake
Macronutrients and micronutrients Declining intakes and reference nutrient intake (RNI) The importance of micronutrients Dietary Supplements, available through...
May 2025
Pharmacodynamically inert substances
A pharmacodynamically inert substance or compound is one that has no active properties and does not produce any...
May 2025
What is the half-life of a drug?
Half-life refers to the time it takes for the concentration of a drug in the body to decrease...
May 2025
Signal detection in pharmacovigilance
Pharmacovigilance (PV) is the practice of monitoring the effects of medicines and medical devices after they have been...
May 2025
A guide to adverse drug reaction reporting
Adverse drug reaction reporting is an essential part of pharmacovigilance. It helps regulators to identify, assess, and address...
April 2025
What is a contraindication?
What is a contra-indication? A contra-indication is a situation where a particular drug or medical intervention should be...
April 2025
What is therapeutic drug monitoring?
What is drug monitoring and what is its purpose? The term therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) was used historically...
February 2025
How to calculate drug dosage for special populations
Optimising drug dosage for special populations Everyone responds differently to medicines, known as inter-individual variation in drug response....
January 2025
Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic relationships
What is pharmacodynamics? It has been said that pharmacokinetics describes what the body does to the drug (absorption,...
December 2024
What is an excipient?
The word excipient is used to describe any component of a medicine that isn't the active ingredient. Most...
December 2024
What are Black Triangle drugs?
The Black Triangle Scheme is a pharmacovigilance programme that collects data on selected medicines and vaccines after they...
November 2024
What is an adverse drug reaction?
An adverse drug reaction (ADR) is a noxious, unintended response to a medicine. While some are relatively minor,...
August 2024
What is pharmacovigilance?
Pharmacovigilance (PV) is the term used to describe the practice of monitoring the effects of medicines after they...