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75 Medicines
management guide to follow renal NSF Guidance on medicines
management issues related to the treatment of people with renal disease
is to be published next month, according to a spokesman for the Department
of Health ...more
75 Government
report tackles medication errors Ways of avoiding medication
errors are set out in a new report published this week by the Department
of Health ...more
76 Risks
of complementary medicines need identifing Pharmacists should
work closely with other health care professionals to encourage patients,
particularly those suffering from cancer, to discuss the benefits and
possible risks of taking complementary or alternative medicines (CAMs)
in conjunction with conventional therapies, according to Cordula Seydel,
former medicines information manager at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London,
and co-author of a recent study ...more
76 US
safety alert over Keppra and Kaletra A safety alert concerning
the potential for dispensing errors arising from confusion between Keppra
(levetiracetam) and Kaletra (lopinavir and ritonavir) has been issued
to US health care professionals by the Food and Drug Administration ...more
76 NI
pharmacies to withdraw 10mg methotrexate tablets Community
pharmacies in the Eastern Health and Social Services Board area of Northern
Ireland are being encouraged not to stock 10mg methotrexate tablets in
order to reduce accidental overdoses ...more
76 Interaction
between St John’s wort and tacrolimus highlighted St
John's wort may interact with tacrolimus and could potentially lead to
solid organ transplantation rejection and graft loss, according to new
research ...more
77 Boots
focuses on pharmacies as 900 office jobs go Boots The Chemists
is to appoint more pharmacy development managers and extend opening hours
at some branches as part of a reorganisation that resulted in around
900 head office jobs being axed last week ...more
77 ETP
likely to be pull model, Jim Smith says Clues about the Department
of Health's preferred model for the electronic transmission of prescriptions
(ETP) were given last week ...more
77 Asda
campaigns over VAT on non-prescription medicines Asda has
reduced the prices of a range of around 200 cough and cold products by
amounts equivalent to VAT in a campaign about the application of the
tax to medicines ...more
77 NHS
magazine for women could be available in pharmacies A new
women's health magazine, Your Life, has been launched by the NHS ...more |
78 Supplementary
prescribing will be at the heart of new Medway school of pharmacy
degree course Supplementary prescribing will be at the
centre of the pharmacy degree course at the new Medway school of
pharmacy ...more
78 Pharmacy in
community and primary care must develop together, Leeds academics say Community
and primary care pharmacy services need to be developed in a more integrated
way, academics from the University of Leeds say ...more
78 Community
pharmacies to get free Medicines Compendium aa ...more
79 Cartoon character
to promote better antibiotic use Moxy Malone, a cartoon detective,
is being used by primary care trusts in Tyne and Wear to educate patients
about how antibiotics should be used correctly ...more
79 Further evidence
that antioxidant vitamins reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease Vitamins
E and C, when taken together, may offer protection against Alzheimer's
disease, say US researchers ...more
79 Repeated melatonin
reduces night-time blood pressure Repeated doses of melatonin
reduce nocturnal blood pressure, a new study showsRepeated doses of melatonin
reduce nocturnal blood pressure, a new study shows ...more
79 No extra benefit
from abciximab Patients who undergo elective percutaneous
coronary intervention after pretreatment with clopidogrel (Plavix) do
not gain additional benefit from treatment with abciximab (ReoPro), data
from a European trial suggests ...more
79 Call for interventions
on obesity Public-health interventions to help combat the
prevalence of childhood obesity are urgently needed, say researchers
...more
79 Depot buprenorphine A
depot formulation of buprenorphine provides relief from opioid withdrawal,
say researchers ...more
79 Cancer programme
launched A programme of clinical research was launched this
week by Cancer Research UK ...more |
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