Doctors, sometime, prescribe the chemotherapeutic drugs, without the knowledge of the limitations of the drug, a new study said.

The new released report showed that sometime, pharmacist and even oncologists don’t have the updated information of the drugs used to treat cancer.

Common physicians, most of the time, rely on the information of the compendia (the resource used by oncologists and pharmacists) for off-label information and accept them as a most authentic source very often, when the question about insurance arises about the drug.

The researchers found that in fact there are flaws in the system that used to ensure the up gradation of the knowledge of the compendia and doesn’t provide the most recent information on the regular basis.

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With the decrease of marijuana and alcohol use, the abuse of painkillers such as Vicodin and Oxycontin has increased in teens, according to a new report.

In U.S. improvement has been seen in many drug uses since late ’90s, but from last two years the down ward trend has stopped.

“In this need of the hour we have to put our maximum efforts, because although there have been improvements, but still the rates are higher with respect to international standards, and it’s the matter of the prime concern in terms of the risk to the health of our community in the long run,” Dr Wilson M. Compton said.

Report mentioned the use of prescription painkillers among adolescence remains high, with some 10 percent of seniors saying they used Vicodin and 4.7 percent said they used Oxycontin in the past year.

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