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Psoriasis soon recognized as a severe disease within WHO
Date: 2014-02-28Posted by: Agneta Andersson
Lars Ettarp, head of IFPA (International Federation of Psoriasis Associations) has made a strong effort to get psoriasis recognized within WHO as a severe disease. Below find a resolution about this that is now spread all over the world. The decision will be taken in March and there is a good prognosis that this resolution will be accepted.
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More photos from the Nordic Congress in DV in Tampere
Date: 2013-12-10Posted by: Agneta Andersson
Find some more photos taken at the Nordic Congress in Dermato-Venereology in Tampere. (Please login to see the link)
A new issue is now available
Date: 2013-12-10Posted by: Agneta Andersson
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NOW EASY ACCESS
Date: 2013-11-05Posted by: Agneta Andersson
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New Photo Added
Date: 2013-10-28Posted by: Agneta Andersson
A new photo is added in the description by Barbara Gasior-Chrzan about the Memories from the earlier Nordic Congresses.
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Bringing patients' voices into mainstream drug-safety monitoring
Date: 2013-10-28Posted by: Agneta Andersson
Bringing patients' voices into mainstream drug-safety monitoring A recent report strongly promotes the value of including patients' experiences of health treatment in official safety monitoring processes. Historically, most reports on safety issues, such as adverse reactions to drugs, have been sent to regulatory authorities and manufacturers only by health professionals. While patient reporting has recently been encouraged, for example by EU legislation, it is still in its infancy and there are sceptics who doubt its value. The PROSPER Consortium (Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Safety Event Reporting) was convened and chaired by Dr Swapu Banerjee, Deputy managing director of Pope Woodhead, supported by patient network PatientsLikeMe and with input from most global pharmaceutical companies, many clinical and academic groups with an interest in PROs, as well as some regulators and patients associations, to examine the issues and provide guidelines for good practice in pharmaceutical manufacturing, regulation and all aspects of healthcare....
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Upprop: Patienter sökes till ny studie av atopisk dermatit
Date: 2013-09-27Posted by: Agneta Andersson
På Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Solna kommer under hösten 2013 en studie att starta där vi planerar utvärdera effekten av Emend (aprepitant) som tilläggsbehandling till lokalbehandling vid atopisk dermatit. Emend är en NK-1R antagonist som i preliminära studier visat sig kunna ha god effekt på olika klådtillstånd. Studien förväntas pågå mellan oktober 2013 - januari 2014. Patienter med måttligt-svårt eksem kommer rekryteras från Stockholmsområdet för att delta i studien. Ansvariga för studien är doktorand Louise Lönndahl och Prof Klas Nordlind. Kontakta oss gärna om ni vill ha mer information och om ni har patienter som skulle kunna vara aktuella.
Maila oss: Louise.lonndahl@ki.se och Klas.Nordlind@karolinska.se
New issue of Forum is available
Date: 2013-08-15Posted by: Agneta Andersson
Look at the new issue of Forum for Nordic Dermato-Venereology
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Potential hidden drug problems
Date: 2013-08-26Posted by: Agneta Andersson
Detecting hidden signals of potential drug problems
UMC Research Team refines automatic screening of data
Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) has a full-time scientific research team constantly working to improve the detection of possible harm to patients from the use of medicines. In a recent project, they have established a new way of uncovering (unmasking, in the jargon) information that can otherwise remain hidden in enormous data-sets. This new algorithm excludes outlier reports that can distort analysis and mask other possible problems of interest. (Please login to see the link)
Abstract book for the Nordic Dermatological Congress
Date: 2013-07-31Posted by: Agneta Andersson
The Abstract book for the Nordic Dermatological Congress is now available. (Please login to see the link)
Adverse drug reactions
Date: 2013-07-22Posted by: Agneta Andersson
Uppsala researchers offer new way to detect harmful drug interactions
The potent chemicals that are modern medicines all carry some risk of harming patients as well as helping them. When you mix two or more medicines, or mix medicines with some herbs or foods, the risk of harm is increased by the possibility of interactions between the various substances. Every one of us taking medicine is vulnerable to interactive effects, even from apparently innocuous products like paracetamol, aspirin, and antacids, or natural substances like... (Please login to see the link)
100th Anniversary of the Nordic Dermatology Association
Date: 2013-06-15Posted by: Agneta Andersson
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New information available on the NDA website
Date: 2013-04-24Posted by: Agneta Andersson
Now a historical document is available at the Nordic Dermatology Association website:
Nordic Medical History - Yearbook from 1985
Read about the development of Nordic Dermatology during 75 years:
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Adverse Drug Reactions
Date: 2013-04-10Posted by: Agneta Andersson
The Uppsala Monitoring Centre has now entered 8 million ADR reports from countries contributing to the WHO Global Individual Case Safety Report (ICSR) database, VigiBase. These reports represent the concerns of health professionals around the world about possible harm caused to their patients by medicines, as well as reports sent to national centres from pharmaceutical companies and from patients ... Read more: (Please login to see the link)
New issue of Forum is available
Date: 2013-04-10Posted by: Agneta Andersson
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Congress in Nordic Dermatology
Date: 2013-03-13Posted by: Agneta Andersson
Mark the date for the next Nordic Congress in Dermato-Venereology in your calender:
Augusti 18–20, 2013
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New website
Date: 2013-01-31Posted by: Agneta Andersson
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