This document discusses thyroid growths and medication side effects related to thyroid drugs. It provides information on the long term side effects of the thyroid medication Synthroid. It also discusses Wikipedia as a source of drug information for pharmacy students and evaluates Wikipedia articles on the 20 most commonly prescribed drugs. The summary finds Wikipedia does not consistently provide accurate, complete or referenced drug information.

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biotechnology – medical biotechnology; clinical research – publication
of trials; good publication practices; uniform requirements for
biomedical journals; Vancouver conventions Stacey M. Lavsa, Shelby L.
Corman, Colleen M. Culley, Tara L. Pummer, Reliability of Wikipedia as
a medication information source for pharmacy students, Currents in
Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, Volume 3, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages
154-158, ISSN 1877-1297, 10.1016/j.cptl.2011.01.007. Abstract:
Objective To assess the accuracy, completeness, and referencing of
medication information in Wikipedia compared with information found
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in the manufacturer's package insert. Methods Wikipedia articles for
the 20 most frequently prescribed drugs per published lists of top 200
brand and generic drugs were evaluated. Four drug information
residency-trained pharmacists independently assessed the articles for
specific categories of information typically found in medication
package inserts. Each category was evaluated for presence in the
Wikipedia article, accuracy, completeness, and referencing (fully,
partially, or none). Package inserts, Micromedex Drugdex Evaluations,
Clinical Pharmacology, and Lexi-Comp databases were used to verify
accuracy, and completeness was evaluated by comparing article
contents to package inserts alone. Results Of the 20 categories of
information assessed, a mean of twelve (range, 8–16) categories were
present in each of the 20 Wikipedia articles. Categories most
frequently absent were drug interactions and medication use in
breastfeeding. No article contained all categories of information.
Information on contraindications and precautions, drug absorption, and
adverse drug events was most frequently found to be inaccurate;
descriptions of off-label indications, contraindications and precautions,
drug interactions, adverse drug events, and dosing were most
frequently incomplete. Referencing was poor across all articles, with
seven of the 20 articles not supported by any references. Conclusion
Wikipedia does not provide consistently accurate, complete, and
referenced medication information. Pharmacy faculty should actively
recommend against our students' use of Wikipedia for medication
information and urge them to consult more credible drug information
resources.
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Wikipedia; Drug information; Internet , Part 7 - Drug-induced ocular
side effects, In: Frederick T. Fraunfelder, MD, Frederick W. Fraunfelder,
MD, and Wiley A. Chambers, MD, Editor(s), Clinical Ocular Toxicology,
W.B. Saunders, Edinburgh, 2008, Pages 45-287, ISBN 9781416046738,
10.1016/B978-1-4160-4673-8.10007-5. Harri Ramcharran, The
pharmaceutical industry of Puerto Rico: Ramifications of global
competition, Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 33, Issue 3, May-June
2011, Pages 395-406, ISSN 0161-8938,
10.1016/j.jpolmod.2010.11.003. Abstract: This paper utilizes a
non-homogeneous production function to estimate the efficiency of the
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pharmaceutical industry of Puerto Rico using data from 1980 to 2008.
Global competition in recent years has resulted in job loss and plant
closures requiring strategies to profitably use the industry's excess
capacity. The estimated results indicate operation at decreasing
returns to scale mainly due to the decreasing output elasticity of the
number of plants; labor productivity, however, is positive and
increasing. Shifting production to generic drugs as a challenge to
foreign competition is a top policy consideration.
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