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The Government plans to implement from 1 January, the system of “unidosis”, ie customized dispensing drugs according to the duration of treatment for each patient.

In principle, be applied on most consumed drugs, which include protective gastric antacids such as omeoprazol, antibiotics such as amoxicillin, antiinflammatory and antirheumatic as ibuprofen and analgesics such as acetaminophen. The final list of medicine will be established soon on a resolution.

We collected the majority opinion of the various actors involved in order to have an overview of the topic:

The government plans to save 300 million euros a year by selling drugs unidosis (from 13,000 to rising pharmaceutical expenditure.) The government shuffle three formulas: that cleave pharmacists dispensing the drug, which fit the dose of each drug to the normal average duration of the ailments for which they are prescribed, and that laboratories marketed doses.

Many physicians support unidosis, but doubt its implementation. They believe that is a major cost savings as often prescribe a medication that is dispensed in a large container but which is only used one hand. However, after the theory comes practice, arguing that its implementation is fraught with difficulties, since it is still unknown as to apply, nor does the list of drugs incorporated into this new system. Read the rest of this entry »

The flu remains a major public health problems in the world. The disease burden of influenza is important to its importance derives from the antigenic variation of influenza virus, its high transmissibility, high morbidity and mortality, and its direct and indirect economic consequences.

During 2009, in La Rioja, there were 11,407 cumulative cases of influenza, involving a rate per hundred thousand inhabitants of 3545.8 people affected and epidemic index 1.65, above, reported a high incidence. Read the rest of this entry »