NHS England have announced a £112 million investment in new roles for pharmacists in general practice as part of a wider initiative to improve primary care for patients, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) reports. They have committed to enable every practice in England to access a pharmacist across a minimum population on average of 30,000 – leading [...]
Hot on the heels of NHS England’s announcement of plans to improve patient care and access and invest in new ways of providing primary care, reactions from the GP community have been out in force. Its five-year vision contains specific steps to strengthen workforce, drive efficiencies in workload, modernise infrastructure and technology, and redesign the [...]
Research co-led by the University of Glasgow has made a potential breakthrough in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The study, led by scientists at the University of Glasgow and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), has discovered that a protein called IL-33 can reverse Alzheimer’s disease-like pathology and cognitive decline in mice. [...]
Despite a shortage in corneas for transplant purposes, new research has revealed that eyes are the one body part we are least likely to donate. While more than a quarter of British adults (26 per cent) interviewed by www.optegra.com have registered for organ donation, almost two thirds (64 per cent) state they would not donate [...]
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has partnered with Netdoctor and The Pharmaceutical Journal to launch the search for Britain’s ‘best loved pharmacist’ through its annual I Love My Pharmacist Award. Now in its third year, I Love My Pharmacist celebrates the fantastic work pharmacists do every day, throughout Great Britain. The award showcases the exceptional contribution pharmacists make to patient [...]
DalCor Pharmaceuticals has announced the completion of $150 million in private financing to continue development of dalcetrapib in a genetically distinct population of patients with cardiovascular disease. DalCor closed a $50 million Series A financing round late in 2015 and a $100 million Series B round this week. Lead investors in DalCor include founding investors [...]
A clinical study evaluating a new hypothesis that an inexpensive drug with a simple treatment regimen can prevent type 1 diabetes has been launched in Dundee. The autoimmune diabetes Accelerator Prevention Trial (adAPT) is led by Professor Terence Wilkin, of the University of Exeter Medical School, with support from colleagues at the University of Dundee and [...]
Pupils at a Greater Manchester primary school welcomed fourth year pharmacy students from the Manchester Pharmacy School alongside the Bolton Healthy Schools Team and sports coaches from One Goal at a recent event aimed at teaching children the importance of healthy eating. The event, held at St Matthew’s CE Primary School in Halliwell, was part of a drive to [...]
People in Forth Valley who have injected drugs are being urged to get tested for HIV, following the most serious HIV outbreak in Glasgow for more than a decade. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has seen the number of new cases through injecting drug use more than quadruple. The normal average is 10 new cases [...]
Reported by BBC News, dramatic trial results have indicated that a combination of immunotherapy drugs has wiped out a deadly form of cancer. In the ground-breaking study, which was partially conducted at Royal Marsden Hospital in London, doctors gave 142 patients with advanced melanoma either the drug ipilimumab alone or in combination with a similar [...]
