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 [...]
A recent survey of 219 people who treat themselves for IBS has found that 80 per cent of them feel some anxiety associated with the very common condition – over 52 per cent were ‘very’ or ‘extremely anxious’ about it. The same survey also found that the large majority (78 per cent) of GPs are [...]
Public Health England (PHE) is issuing a reminder to the public to practice safe sex by using a condom with new or casual partners. The call comes as an increase in antibiotic resistant cases of gonorrhoea continues; a further sign of the very real threat of antibiotic resistance to our ability to treat infections. PHE continues [...]
The only medicine licensed to treat the most common form of liver cancer will be available on the Welsh NHS, Health and Social Services Minister Mark Drakeford has confirmed. The Minister has confirmed that the positive recommendation by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) that sorafenib should be made routinely available to treat people [...]
A toolkit has been launched to help midwives and other healthcare professionals inform women about the risks of taking valproate during pregnancy. The new booklet has been developed to address concerns that the risks of taking the drug for conditions such as epilepsy and bipolar disorder are not being adequately explained to female patients, said [...]
