A team of Robert Gordon University (RGU) scientists are gearing up to host a major health conference in the Middle East later this year. Lecturers from the university's School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences are organising a patient safety conference which will be held at the Sheraton Hotel, Doha, Qatar on 22nd and 23rd April. [...]
New drugs created using enzymes from reef-dwelling marine organisms which may be used to fight cancer, inflammatory and auto-immune diseases, will be spearheaded by a new company formed from research carried out at the universities of Aberdeen and St Andrews. The two chemistry teams have developed a revolutionary new method for creating a new class [...]
A technique called ‘mito-priming’ is the latest method to be developed by researchers in the fight against cancer. Scientists at the University of Glasgow’s Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute have developed the technique as a research tool to understand how cancer cells die. The significant discovery, published in Nature Communications, means mito-priming can be applied [...]
An independent review of the way drugs are accessed for use on the NHS is to be led by former NHS Fife Medical Director, Dr Brian Montgomery, Health Secretary Shona Robison recently announced. The review will look at how the changes made to the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) process in 2014 have improved patient access [...]
The professional body for the pharmacy profession has launched its manifesto ahead of the Scottish parliament elections in May. Entitled, Right Medicine – Better Health – Fitter Future, the manifesto focuses on recognising pharmacists’ expertise in the use of medicines and calls for greater use of pharmacists to deliver better patient care and a more [...]
A new trial launched last year is aiming to find out if taking an aspirin a day can help prevent some cancers from coming back. And Raigmore Hospital is one of the centres taking part. The trial, which is funded by Cancer Research UK and the National Institute for Health Research, aims to find out [...]
Pharmacy students at Robert Gordon University (RGU) gained a valuable insight in to the science behind their studies at a special event recently. More than 80 students from second and fourth year attended the Science in Practice afternoon session at the Sir Ian Wood Building. Dr Barbara McKenzie, Lecturer in pharmaceutics at RGU, worked with colleagues [...]
A community pharmacist from Austria spent two months at Robert Gordon University (RGU) to gain experience of how pharmacy services are delivered in Scotland. Iris Reinisch spent time with the university’s School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences in September and October to learn more about the development of community pharmacy practice in the North East. [...]
