Introduction: Over 355 million prescriptions were dispensed for cardiovascular diseases in the UK in 2013. Half of these, costing the NHS £2.3 billion, were wasted because patients do not take their medicines as prescribed. ...

Background Evidence suggests that ˃50% of cardiovascular (CVD) disease patients do not adhere to treatment thus impacting on patient health, additional healthcare costs and medicines wastage. DBS microsampling combined ...

The use of blood spot collection cards was investigated as a means of obtaining small volume samples for the analysis of therapeutic drugs for the purpose of neonatal pharmacokinetic studies. We describe the development ...

Introduction: Over 355 million prescriptions were dispensed for cardiovascular diseases in the UK in 20131. Half of these, costing the NHS £2.3 billion, were wasted because patients did not take their medicines as prescribed2. ...

A high-performance liquid chromatography (LC-MS) method has been developed and validated for the determination of dexamethasone in dried blood spot (DBS) samples. For the preparation of DBS samples whole blood spiked with ...

Introduction: Quantitative dried blood spot (DBS) analysis was used to investigate if the accurate mass capability (±2ppm m/z) of high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) would provide compound specificity comparable to ...

From therapeutic to lifestyle medicines, the counterfeiting of medicines has been on the rise in recent times [1]. Estimates indicate that about 10% of medicines worldwide are counterfeits with much higher figures in ...