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Eight Drugs a Week Episode 16 – Tuberculosis Drugs TDM: The long and winding road
Tuberculosis remains one of the world's most persistent infectious diseases, and despite decades of available treatments, achieving cure remains a long and winding road.
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Eight Drugs a Week Episode 15 – Revolution 9: How the microbiome is evolving our understanding of drug disposition
The human microbiome, a complex community of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses, doesn't just passively coexist with the drugs we take; it actively participates in a bidirectional relationship that can impact drug efficacy and toxicity.
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Eight Drugs a Week Episode 14 – IATDMCT annual meeting in Singapore. I’ve got a meeting (I’ve got a feeling)
We gather the two chairs of the upcoming IATDMCT annual meeting in Singapore, Sophie Stocker and Jana Stojanova, plus Cindy Lau, who contribute to the organization of the young scientists’ part of the event to discuss the content, urbi et orbi, of our annual meeting.
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Eight Drugs a Week, Episode 13 – Pharmacogenetics: Here, There and Everywhere
Pharmacogenetics now surrounds us and is an efficient tool to prevent disease or to guide drug therapy. By studying polymorphisms in the genes coding for metabolism enzymes and drug transporters, we can have clues to help choose the right drug or adjust drug dosage.
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Introducing RAPS: the Regional Asia Pacific Section of the IATDMCT
The congress in Banff saw the inaugural RAPs symposium: the first scientific session from the recently formed Regional Asia Pacific Section of the IATDMCT. Challenges in obtaining visas to join us all in person didn’t stop the group from realising a well-attended symposium, where we saw excellent video presentations from our very active peers. The
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Eight Drugs a Week, Episode 12 – TDM for beta-lactams in critical care: You know my name (Look up the number)
Given we traditionally only monitored particular antibiotics to spare toxicity, and that beta lactams were widely considered such safe drugs, it was once difficult to imagine this drug class would become important TDM candidates.
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Eight Drugs a Week, Episode 11 – On the road to Banff: Not a second time!
This time, it’s the right time — not a second time, but a unique time — to take the road to Banff, Canada, for the 22nd edition of the IATDMCT annual congress.
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What would you do next? A vancomycin TDM case series.
Paul Chin and Marie-Claire Morahan present three cases illustrating some very common challenges that arise when using dose forecasting software for vancomycin. What would you do next in these cases?
