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165 Bids
open for pharmacy chlamydia screening pilot Community pharmacists
are being asked to submit bids to pilot services to make chlamydia screening
available throughout London and Cornwall, Public Health Minister Melanie
Johnson announced this week ...more
165 Pharmacists
to be recruited to new study tackling alcohol misuse Pharmacists
in Glasgow are to be recruited to a new study that will examine how feasible
it is for community pharmacists to provide structured interventions to
people who drink too much alcohol ...more
165 Scotland
consults pharmacists on better use of skill mix How to make
better use of skill mix in pharmacy is the subject of a consultation
published this week by the Scottish Executive ...more
166 Part
two of renal NSF focuses on chronic disease The second part
of the National Service Framework for Renal Services, which focuses on
chronic kidney disease, has been published by the Department of Health
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166 Co-op
promotes Valentine’s organ donation Co-op Pharmacy is encouraging its customers to think about organ donation by giving away specially designed organ donor Valentine’s cards
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166 SSRIs
should be used with caution during pregnancy Selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitors should be used with caution in pregnancy because
of the risk of neonatal convulsions and neonatal withdrawal syndrome
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166 Pharmacists
advised of atomoxetine risk Potential liver problems associated
with the use of atomoxetine (Strattera) have been brought to the attention
of pharmacists and doctors by the Committee on Safety of Medicines ...more
166 No
mortality benefit for PPIs Use of proton pump inhibitors by
patients with bleeding ulcers does not have a significant effect on mortality.
However, they reduce episodes of further bleeding and the need for surgery
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166 St John’s wort versus paroxetine St John’s wort has been shown to be as effective as paroxetine in patients suffering from moderate to severe depression and has also been shown to be better tolerated
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167 Society
devolution group proposes English board Separate boards for England, Scotland and Wales, which will provide strategic leadership and support for pharmacy practice development relevant to each home country, have been proposed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Devolution Review Group
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167 Agreement
reached on Charter action costs The Save Our Society campaign (SOS) has reached agreement with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on the costs it has to pay following last year’s court action over the new Charter
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167 First
primary care records held on national database A GP practice
has become the first in England to take a significant step towards developing
the shared electronic patient care record ...more
167 East
Anglian Pharmaceuticals The Office of Fair Trading has decided
to allow Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd to purchase the independent
pharmaceutical wholesaler East Anglian Pharmaceuticals ...more
168 Judge
orders dentist to be struck off A dentist was ordered to be
struck from the dental register with immediate effect last week by a
High Court judge ...more
168 Shipman
case pharmacist faces Statutory Committee The pharmacist criticised during the Shipman Inquiry for not noticing abnormal prescribing that allowed Shipman to collect diamorphine which he then used to kill many patients, will appear before the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Statutory Committee on 21 and 22 February
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168 Extra stage
of clinical trials is under consideration The Government is
considering introducing a fourth stage in the vetting of medicines before
granting marketing approval ...more
168 Medicines
regulation and sponsorship in one department is best for balance, says
minister Medicines regulation and advocacy of the pharmaceutical industry are within the same Government department because it is the best way of getting the right balance between the two, according to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Lord Warner
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168 MHRA to improve
its image The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency has appointed a director of communications ...more
168 Child medicine
licensing plans inadequate Proposals to encourage the licensing
of medicines for children fail to meet their needs and will encourage
paediatric use of risky and useless medicines, according to an association
of European consumer organisations ...more
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169 Scheme cuts
co-proxamol prescribing rates at PCT A scheme developed by
Mansfield District Primary Care Trust in Nottinghamshire has led to an
80 per cent reduction in co-proxamol prescribing rates and could be adopted
by other primary care organisations to facilitate the withdrawal of co-proxamol
announced last week ...more
169 Diamorphine
supplies remain low NHS supplies of diamorphine will remain
low until the end of March, the Department of Health confirmed this week
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169 Almost a
third of cancer patients use complementary and alternative medicines Health
care professionals need to be aware that many cancer patients are using
complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) and they should help educate
patients about these therapies ...more
169 Paracetamol
should be preferred OTC analgesic Paracetamol remains a better
option than non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for most patients
requiring an over-the-counter analgesic ...more
170 Pharmaceutical
regulations to be reviewed by Cabinet Office this year Legislation
affecting pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacturers is to be reviewed
this year by the Cabinet Office Regulatory Impact Unit ...more
170 Call to increase
use of drug-eluting stents Cardiologists are lobbying the
Department of Health and calling for a doubling of the number of angioplasties
they can carry out with drug-eluting stents ...more
170 Mumps cases
rise in England and Wales Nearly 5,000 cases of mumps were
notified to the Health Protection Agency for the first four weeks of
2005, compared with 358 during the same period in 2004 ...more
R&D news
171 Use radioimmunotherapy earlier for lymphomas Radioimmunotherapy
should not be reserved for chemotherapy-resistant lymphomas, but should
be initiated early in the course of the disease ...more
171 DNA vaccine
prevents TB recurrence Reactivation of dormant tuberculosis
bacteria can be prevented by combining drug treatment with a DNA vaccine,
new research suggests ...more
171 Ximelagatran
as effective as warfarin but not cost effective The anti-clotting
drug ximelagatran (Exanta) may be as effective as warfarin for the treatment
of deep vein thrombosis and the prevention of stroke in patients with
atrial fibrillation, but it is unlikely to be cost effective ...more
171 New technique
to overcome antiviral drug resistance Antiviral drug resistance
could be eliminated by the development of therapies targeting host signalling
pathways instead of the virus itself ...more
171 Viagra
improves cardiac function Sildenafil (Viagra) could be used
to treat hypertrophic heart disease ...more
171 Cell-cultured
smallpox vaccine Researchers from Kentucky have designed a
cell-cultured smallpox vaccine that has been shown to be a safe alternative
to calf-lymph derived vaccine, which is no longer acceptable because
of the risk of bovine spongiform encephalitis ...more
171 Nicotine exacerbates Alzheimer’s Chronic nicotine administration may increase the brain abnormalities that occur in Alzheimer’s disease
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171 New
drug beats Glivec resistance Scientists have developed a compound, called ONO12380, that may overcome the problem of imatinib (Glivec) resistance in patients with chronic myelogenous leukaemias
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