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Risk of adverse events following the initiation of antihypertensives in older people with complex health needs
New NMIC learning module on HSeLanD
Age-related risk of serious fall events and opioid Analgesic Use
Use of progestogens and the risk of intracranial meningioma

April

Practical prescribing: proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
Results of NMIC survey 2024
Prevalence of potentially medications among newly treated patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)
Learning to swallow pills?
Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) update

March

Practical prescribing - thiazides diuretics
Correct storage of biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs at home
Drug-induced dermatomyositis
Potentially inappropriate prescribing and potential prescribing omissions and their association with adverse drug reaction-related hospital admission

February

Gabapentinoids in Ireland 2010 to 2020
Medicine shortages
NMIC publications survey 2024
Crushed tablet administration for patients with dysphagia or enteral feeding

January

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Drug-drug interactions and risk of adverse drug reaction-related hospital admissions in the older population
Emollients – comparison of lotions, creams, gels and ointment for childhood eczema
Safety outcomes when switching between biosimilar and reference biological medicines

2023

December
- Sharing prescription medications
- "Weekend warrior” physical activity & incident cardiovascular disease
- Breastfeeding & the incidence of infant illness in Ireland
- Primary prevention of CVD of Mediterranean diet in women

November
- Risk of Gastrointestinal Adverse Events Associated with GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Weight Loss
- Paediatric ADHD medication errors reported to US poison Centres
- Managing drugs with anticholinergic activity
October
- Venous thromboembolism with use of hormonal contraception and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
- Prevalence and predictors of primary non-adherence in primary care
- Aspirin for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
September
- Folic acid supplementation to prevent neural tube defects
- Association between daily step count and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality
- Cardiac and renal effects of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2)
August
- Electrolyte disturbances due to proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
- Vaccine hesitancy
- Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH)
July
- COPD exacerbations and pneumonia hospitalisations among new users of combination maintenance inhalers.
- Health Products Regulatory Authority updates
- Polypharmacy and cumulative anticholinergic burden in older adults hospitalised with a fall
- Low-dose aspirin and risk of serious falls and fractures in healthy older people
June
- Bipolar disorder – monitoring drug interventions
- Trends in severe outcomes of adults and patients hospitalised with COVID -19
- Women’s pre-conception health in England
May
- Medication work among nonagenarians
- Use of pharmacy services in community-dwelling middle-age and older adults.
- NMIC useful medicines information resources webpage
- Oral anticoagulant safety audit
- Prevalence of antibiotic-associated Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN).
April
- Breast cancer risk and contraception
- NMIC CPD module on HSeLanD!
- Prevention of hospital admissions for adverse drug reactions
- Withdrawing from SSRI antidepressants
March
- BRAINS & AIMS
- Further NMIC learning module on HSeLanD!
- Reduce unnecessary use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
- Teachable moment – Paxlovid avoiding drug-drug interactions
- Guideline updates
February
- Metabolic adverse events associated with systemic corticosteroid therapy
- Prevalence of drug-drug interactions in older adults in the community
- Values and preferences of patients and caregivers regarding eczema treatment
- Online eczema interventions to support self-care for children and young people
- Updated National Clinical Guidelines in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

January
- Adverse drug reactions in older people in the community in Ireland
- Thinking of a New Year’s resolution
- Gynaecomastia
- Glucocorticoid induced adrenal insufficiency (GC-AL)
- Regular Updates
- New Feature

2022

December
- Thank you very much!
- Morning versus evening antihypertensive medicine
- Health Products Authority (HPRA) Update
- Switching from a metered dose inhaler to a dry powder inhaler – effects on climate emissions and asthma control
- Effectiveness of physical activity interventions delivered or prompted by healthcare professionals in primary care
- NMIC Therapeutics Today 2022
November
- The revised isotretinoin pregnancy prevention programme: awareness, knowledge & implementation in practice of healthcare professionals.
- Risk of co-prescribing non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and oral anticoagulants.
- Medicines Management Programme updates.
- Effectiveness of preconception care interventions in primary care.
- Paxlovid: update on prescribing and access
October
- ThinkCascades: a tool for identifying clinically important prescribing cascades affecting older people.
- HSE-Medicines Management Programme Update
- Trends in direct oral anticoagulant prescribing in primary care in England
- Gastrointestinal bleeding risk after concomitant treatment with non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants and oral glucocorticoids.
September
- Obesity and oral emergency contraception
- Recent journal Articles on pregnancy
- Prescribing trends of antihypertensive medicines in the UK over 31 years
- Health Products Regulatory Authority updates
- HSeLanD Learning Module
August
- Adverse drug reactions, multimorbidity and polypharmacy
- Information resources for Ukrainian medicines
- NMIC useful information resources webpage update
- Medication Safety Minutes
- Guideline update
July Supplement
- Paxlovid : Update on prescribing and access
- Key safety Points
- Eligibility and prescribing considerations
- Drug-drug interactions
- Supply
July
- Opioids versus non-opioids following surgical discharge
- Further NMIC learning module on HSeLanD
- Management of Gout
- Guidance documents update
June
- Serotonin Syndrome
- Intramuscular injections in patients taking anticoagulant
- Guideline updates
- Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS)
- Use of medications that may raise blood pressure
May
- Long-term nitrofurantoin therapy
- Health Products Regulatory Authority updates
- Guideline updates
- Montelukast and neuropsychiatric reactions
- Dose of paracetamol and low body weight
- Factors to consider when using medicines following bariatric surgery
April
- Sodium valproate (Epilim) utilisations trends in Ireland
- Emollients and risk of burns
- Non- vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) and pharmacokinetic drug interactions
- Examples of medicines that should be prescribed by brand name
- Guideline updates
- NMIC CPD modules on contraception
- Ukrainian Medicines Information Resources
March
- Paxlovid and risk of drug interactions
- Ireland’s second One Health National Action Plan (iNAP2) on Antimicrobial Resistance 2021-2025
- Regular Updates
- Measles
February
- Overactive bladder (OAB) in women
- Regular updates
- Patient adherence, satisfaction and knowledge of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs)
- Impact of Gp-delivered medication review of older patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy

January
- Associations of Statins adherence and lipid targets with adverse outcomes in patients following myocardial infarction
- Fatal adverse drug reactions
- Childhood constipation

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