School of Pharmacy - News

Persons with Alzheimer’s disease use prescription opioids as frequently as persons without the disease.

Polypharmacy especially in older people may lead to the use of medications that are unnecessary, ineffective, unsuitable or even harmful. Controlled deprescribing is a challenge a new training module seeks to tackle.

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland School of Pharmacy have received an award of 100,000 dollars from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.