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Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Overview What is Therapeutic Drug Monitoring? Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is the practice of measuring drug concentrations in the blood and adjusting medication doses as needed. This strategy is used for medications that …

About us

About us Biochemistry Laboratory The Biochemistry Department of the McGill University Health Centre (Montréal, Canada), under the direction of Dr. Denis Thibeault, PhD, analyzes plasma concentrations of antiretrovirals by liquid chromatography / tandem …

Antiretroviral Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

Antiretroviral Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Rationale for Antiretroviral Therapeutic Drug Monitoring The virologic efficacy of antiretroviral therapy is assessed by viral suppression. It has been shown that insufficient viral suppression (ie. detectable …

Teaching and training

Teaching and training E-learning presentations In development. Come back and visit this portion of our site soon. Upcoming clinical pharmacology meetings of interest Consult the Virology Education website ( www.virology-education.com ) for more …

Other resources

Other resources HIV Literature on Antiretroviral TDM HIV Treatment Guidelines Federally approved HIV/AIDS medical practice guidelines in the US are available at http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines . Accessed [July 24th, 2013]. Guidelines for the Use …

Tackling the rising costs of health care

February 19th, 2010 Faced with the continual tide of new technology, our universal health care system must constantly deal with surging costs. At the same time, hospitals have to operate on fixed budgets. So how can we benefit from the best technologies …

When Every Second Counts

February 19th, 2010 For 17-year-old Jennifer Mitchell, June 13, 2009 is a date she will never forget. That morning, while on the way to a go-karting track with four of her friends, Jennifer’s car was struck by a van going more than 95 kilometers per hour. …