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Polypharmacy Service
| Updated 18 Mar 2025 | Tags: clinical pharmacology drug drugs medications Medicine pharmacogenomics polypharmacy
What is Polypharmacy? ‘Polypharmacy’ means taking multiple medicines or drugs. Taking multiple medicines is often required to help patients who have more than one illness. However, the risk of problems (including side effects) increases as the number of drugs increases. To reduce the risk of problems, people taking multiple medicines …
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Research shows new drug can stop mother-baby transmission of HIV
News & events | 24 Jan 2006 | Tags: drug HIV mother-baby transmission
DOCTORS from St George’s Hospital have found that a new drug for treating HIV infections can prevent pregnant women infected with a drug-resistant form of the virus from transmitting it to their babies. Two case studies published by a team of virology, paediatric and sexual health experts from the hospital …
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