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849 Pharmacy
oxygen services likely to be scrapped Community pharmacy oxygen contracts are to be
abandoned in England following a surprise announcement in the House of Commons, and leading to
a protest from the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee ...[more]
849 Virtual pharmacokinetics ...[more]
850 New faces
at the Department of Health Dr John Reid, member
of Parliament for Hamilton North and Bellshill has been appointed Secretary
of State for Health ...[more]
850 Pharmacist awarded MBE in birthday list David Bolton, FRPharmS,
has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's birthday honours ...[more]
850 Call for overhaul of prescription charges A radical overhaul
of health charges has been called for by a health commission of the Social Market Foundation
...[more]
850 Welsh medicines
forum ...[more]
851 Forum for
pharmacists to share ideas on rational antimicrobial use required More
opportunities for pharmacists to share ideas on the rational use of antimicrobials
are expected soon as a result of liaison between the Royal Pharmaceutical
Society
and the specialist advisory committee on antimicrobial resistance (SACAR)
...[more]
851 Arthritis patients showing consistent improvements Patients
who have rheumatoid arthritis have experienced consistent improvements in their condition since
the mid-1990s, researchers report. This is likely to be due to early aggressive treatment and
the introduction of biological therapies, they say ...[more]
852 Good news
for statins in diabetes A study of statin use
in type 2 diabetes has been stopped early because interim results have
found a "substantial
and highly significant benefit of treatment" ...[more]
852 Scotland endorses three new drugs Three newly-licensed medicines — biphasic insulin aspart 30 (Novomix 30) for diabetes, olanzapine (Zyprexa) for acute mania and vardenafil (Levitra) for erectile dysfunction — have been assessed by the Scottish Medicines Consortium, which has made recommendations to NHS Scotland about their use ...[more]
853 Fourth wave
medicines management pilots invited to explore two new areas New
opportunities are available to applicants for the fourth wave of medicines
management pilots in England ...[more] |
OFT pharmacy report news & related links (more)
849 MPs say market must not control pharmacy
services National
Health Service pharmacy regulations are inflexible and in need of reform,
according to the House of Commons Health Select Committee. But the National
Health Service must retain control over
where pharmacy services are provided ...[more]
850 MPs divide politically over vote on pharmacy and competition policy The
House of Commons has rejected an opposition motion praising the abilities of community pharmacists
and expressing concern about changes which might reduce the quality of their services in favour
of one supporting regulatory changes ...[more]
854 Up
to half those with hay fever are undiagnosed Up to one in every
two people with allergic rhinitis are undiagnosed, according to an epidemiological
study reported at last week's European Academy of Allergology and Clinical
Immunology in Paris ...[more]
854 Twice weekly
topical steroid cream may reduce risk of eczema flare up Using
a topical steroid cream twice a week may reduce the risk of flare up
in atopic dermatitis, dermatologists say ...[more]
854 Sexual health
in crisis and services are ill-equipped Sexual health services
appear to be ill-equipped to deal with the crisis that confronts them,
the authors of a Government health committee report say ...[more]
854 HAART may
restore pre-HIV lipid levels The increases in lipid levels
observed during treatment with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)
in patients infected with HIV may be a return to levels seen before seroconversion,
American doctors believe. Alterations in serum lipids have been widely
reported in patients on HAART. However, no study has yet investigated
lipid levels before patients were infected with HIV ...[more]
855 Warning over "fat
burner" capsules Urgent advice has been issued by the
Food Standards Agency, to people in the bodybuilding community in particular,
about the dangers of consuming products containing 2,4-dinitrophenol
(DNP) ...[more]
855 More research
needed on herb-drug interactions More systematic research
into herb-drug interactions is "a matter of urgency" according
to a research fellow at Exeter university ...[more]
855 Research
suggests protective role for selenium in breast cancer A link
between a genetic polymorphism associated with breast cancer and the
need for selenium has sparked interest in the national media this week.
However, researchers who carried out the work say that use of selenium
supplements as a way of preventing breast cancer cannot be advocated
on current evidence ...[more]
855 "Anti-ageing" hormone
harmful ...[more]
855 Complementary
medicines ...[more]
855 Y chromosome sequenced ...[more] |
