Bakgrunn: I 2002 ble det publisert studier som viste at hormonbehandling i klimakteriet øker risikoen for kardiovaskulære hendelser og brystkreft. Etter dette sank salget av østrogenpreparater kraftig, og det er grunn til å tro at det har vært økende interesse for andre behandlingsstrategier mot klimakterieplager. Masteroppgaven tar utgangspunkt i ACUFLASH-studien, hvor formålet er å finne ut om ...

Background Pharmaceutical care as a health care service has already made its mark and been shown to make an important contribution to the health care system. However, there is still a demand from the NHS among others, that pharmacist to a greater extent must document their provision of pharmaceutical care. Tested out in this project, is the application of a Care Issue Categorisation System. ...

BACKGROUND: Dyslipidaemia is more frequent in solid organ transplant recipients than in the general population. In order to reduce the overall cardiovascular risk in transplant patients lipid-lowering drugs, especially statins, have become widely used. However, the use of statins in transplant recipients taking cyclosporine A (CsA) results in significantly increased risk for statin induced side-effects ...

Objective This audit was conducted by reviewing two cohorts of patients in terms of pharmaceutical care delivered by examining free text electronic records and categorising care issues into a proposed reporting system. Qualitative research methods in an action research process were used to test the validity and the utility of the reporting system. A template for an electronic pharmaceutical care ...

Background: Pharmaceutical care is delivered in various ways and settings. There is a need for ways of describing the care delivered to be able to compare the care delivered in different settings. Aim and objectives: The aim of the project was to compare the prescribing activity and delivery of pharmaceutical care in two clinical settings. In order to quantitatively compare the pharmaceutical ...

Studies have shown that fatty acids from fish and fish oils, like eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosapentaenoic acid (DHA) may have a beneficial role in cancer by inhibiting proliferation or inducing apoptosis of the cancer cells. Several mechanisms involving different metabolites (eicosanoids) of the fatty acids have been suggested for the anti-cancer actions, but the detailed effects are still ...

In Drug Discovery the first pharmacokinetic in vivo study of new compounds is of great importance to provide an initial assessment of the drug pharmacokinetik (PK) parameters. Data from these studies is used to optimize the PK properties of the chemical series and to calculate the initial doses in further in vivo studies. Because of the everexisting demand to increase throughput in Drug Discovery, ...

Very little is known about introgression in bacteria. Introgression is the process where the genes of one species infiltrate the gene pool of another organism by subsequent backcross transformations of a hybrid with one of its parents. After the initial acquisition of foreign DNA, DNA from the newly made transformants is used as donor DNA in backcross transformations with the recipient. DNA is ...

Bakgrunnen for oppgaven er økt oppmerksomhet rundt riktig antibiotikabruk. Antibiotika har i snart 30 år blitt brukt som profylakse i forbindelse med kirurgiske inngrep for å redusere morbiditet og mortalitet forårsaket av postoperative infeksjoner. Thoraxkirurgisk avdeling på Rikshospitalet fikk i februar 2007 nye retningslinjer for bruk av antibiotikaprofylakse ved kirurgiske inngrep. Formål Hensikten ...