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Repeat dispensing pathfinder sites announced;
remuneration not agreed Thirty proposed pathfinder sites for
pharmacy-based National Health Service repeat dispensing have been named
by the Department of Health...[more]
Cancer survival estimates too low
Conventional estimates for life expectancy after cancer diagnosis have
been too pessimistic, say researchers...[more]
Scottish heart and stroke plan launched
Scotland's first strategy to combat heart disease and stroke has set a
target to halve deaths from coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke among
Scots aged under 75 years by 2010...[more]
Supervisors of the health professions must have
no record of misconduct Rules governing the appointment of
members of the Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals
(CRHCP) preclude the appointment of anyone who has ever been guilty of
professional misconduct...[more]
NOS primary care osteoporosis strategy published
The role that pharmacists and other primary care staff can play in preventing
osteoporotic fractures and falls has been outlined in a new National Osteoporosis
Society strategy document...[more]
Pharmacists can help drug misusers benefit from
integrated care The role of community and hospital pharmacists
in the integrated care of drug misusers has been highlighted in a new
Scottish Executive report...[more]
Skill mix proposals may weaken the medicines
safety net, warns the NPA A warning that proposals in the Department
of Health’s pharmacy workforce discussion document could reduce
patient safety has been voiced by the National Pharmaceutical Association...[more]
MeReC — statins, HRT and etanercept
The Heart Protection Study supports the practice of targeting patients
based on their absolute risk of suffering a cardiovascular event and indicates
that statins should be an option for all high-risk patients, the latest
issue of MeReC Extra states...[more]
Conflict between concordance and NSFs to be
research subject Research at the University of Leeds is to
examine the potential conflict between partnership in medicine taking
(concordance) and top-down prescribing pressures...[more]
Government rejects calls for major changes to
the NICE appeals system Calls from the House of Commons Health
Select Committee and the pharmaceutical industry for changes to the National
Institute for Clinical Excellence's appeals procedure have been largely
rejected by the Government...[more]
Long-term, high-dose rofecoxib should be avoided
Patients who start rofecoxib (Vioxx) treatment at a high dose (>25mg
daily) could be at almost twice the risk of serious coronary heart disease
(CHD) compared with patients who do not use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs, say American researchers...[more]
Memantine launched for treatment of Alzheimer's
MEMANTINE (Ebixa) — an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist
launched this week in the United Kingdom — continues to provide benefits
to patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) after one year, researchers
report...[more]
Cisplatin-based chemotherapy should be first-line
treatment for lung cancer Patients with lung cancer who are
treated with cisplatin and paclitaxel have better survival rates than
patients treated with carboplatin and paclitaxel, results of a European
trial suggest...[more]
Evidence that ACE inhibition is affected by
aspirin is weak Concomitant use of aspirin and angiotensin-converting
enzyme (ACE) inhibitors should be considered in all patients at high risk
of major vascular events, say researchers...[more]
Tacrolimus ointment better than topical steroids
in atopic dermatitis TACROLIMUS ointment (Protopic), a topical
immunomodulator, changes the course of moderate to severe atopic dermatitis
by reducing the severity and frequency of flare-ups, according to a long-term
trial reported earlier this month at the 11th Congress of the European
Academy of Dermatology and Venereology in Prague...[more]
Breast cancer risk higher for teenage smokers
Women who smoke in their teens increase their risk of developing breast
cancer later in life, Canadian researchers suggest...[more]
Medicines not to blame for smaller brain size
of children with ADHD The smaller brain size of children with
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is not caused by drug
treatment, a new study suggests...[more]
Under-age sex and STI risk Girls
under 16 years of age attending a London genitourinary clinic with a suspected
sexually transmitted infection (STI) were found to be three times more
likely to have an STI compared with other women...[more]
SIDS risk confirmed Sleeping on the
stomach increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), American
researchers have confirmed...[more]
Paracetamol poisoning Using a mouse
bred to lack constitutive androstane receptors (CAR), researchers have
shown that this protein is critical to the toxicity of paracetamol...[more]
Lloyds launches CD-ROM Lloydspharmacy
has launched a continuing professional development CD-ROM for its pharmacists...[more]
Exercise
slows functional decline Exercise can reduce the progression
of functional decline among physically frail, older people, say researchers...[more]
GP practice teacher-practitioner...[more]
Patients want records protected...[more]
Malaria parasite genome cracked...[more]
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