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191 Concerns
over oxygen service continue to be raised In response to the failures of the new home oxygen service, an action checklist has been drawn up by the Department of Health, the NHS and the new suppliers, but problems with the transfer of the service have continued to be raised
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191 Hewitt:
600,000 will quit after smoking ban Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt predicted that over 600,000 people will give up smoking following Tuesday's Commons vote to ban it in all enclosed work places in England, including public houses and private clubs
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191 NHS stop
smoking success rates improve by 23 per cent Between April and September 2005, 137,894 people using NHS stop smoking services said that they had successfully stopped smoking, compared with 112,250 in the same period in 2004, data issued by the Health and Social Care Information Centre show
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191 7,100 now
MUR-accredited Almost 7,100 pharmacists have been accredited to provide medicines use reviews as part of the new community pharmacy contract, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has announced
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192 ABPI suspends
Abbott over code of practice contraventions Abbott Laboratories
Ltd has been suspended from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical
Industry for at least six months. Abbott will have to undergo an audit
of its ABPI Code of Practice compliance procedures before readmission
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192 Industry/ministerial
group still trying to encourage pharmaceutical investment Government ministers and pharmaceutical industry leaders are pressing on with an initiative to try to increase pharmaceutical investment in the UK
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192 615 tonnes of medicines incinerated in 2004–05 Waste medicines accounted for 614.8 tonnes of the waste that was disposed of by incineration in England in 2004–05
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192 VAT and pharmacists Treasury minister Dawn Primarolo has signalled that there will be no rethink of the VAT rules applying to pharmacists
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193 Pharmacists
have role in patient safety, says NPSA How pharmacists can
help to improve patient safety is addressed in consultation documents
released last week by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) ...more
193 SMC accepts
six medicines for Scotland — four medicines rejected Two
antiretroviral medicines, emtricitabine (Emtriva) and emtricitabine/tenofovir
(Truvada) have been approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC)
for use within NHS Scotland ...more
193 National
Service Framework for Older People to be given facelift with release
of DoH report A report called “Improving standards of care for older people — next steps” will be published by the Department of Health in April
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194 Frequent-flyer
report points to role for pharmacists Pharmacists could help patients who are admitted to hospitals as emergencies more than three times a year — termed high-impact users or frequent-flyers by health staff — and who cost the NHS £2.3bn in 2003–04
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194 Irish “risk Shipman-type pharmacy scandal”, warns Society The Irish Republic has been warned that it risks a Shipman-type scandal in the pharmacy sector because of the lack of legislative controls to remove rogue operators
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194 Steven Kayne
appointed to herbal advisory committee Steven Kayne, an independent pharmacy consultant, has been appointed a professional member of the new Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee, it was announced this week
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194 Pharmacist
is made head of strategic development for health at Abertay university David McNaughton, a pharmacist and former director of the Abertay Pain Management Research Centre, has been appointed head of strategic development (health) at the University of Abertay, Dundee
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194 Advertising
appeals John Ferguson, formerly Secretary and Registrar of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, has been reappointed to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's Independent Review Panel for Advertising
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195 SSRIs still
prescribed for children despite warnings In 2004, 85,251 child
prescriptions were issued for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency ruled the
year before should not be given to children ...more
195 Health of
a generation to be investigated Generation Scotland, a large
study to investigate the influence of genetics and lifestyle on disease
and response to treatment, started last week ...more
195 MPs slam
NICE Alzheimer's recommendation Over 20 MPs have backed an
all-party motion describing as “unethical” the recent recommendation
by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to allow
access to Alzheimer's disease drugs only to patients in the moderate
stage of the illness ...more
195 Range of
antivirals may be stockpiled by DoH Antivirals may be stockpiled
in readiness for an influenza pandemic, the Department of Health has
suggested ...more
195 Potential
cost-effectiveness of polypill estimated The costs of prescribing
the “polypill” to all adults over the age of 50 years for
the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease could preclude its use,
according to researchers ...more
196 Vitamin D
supplements fail to reduce hip fractures Supplementation with
calcium and vitamin D increases hip bone density, but does not reduce
hip fracture or colorectal cancer, data from the Women's Health Initiative
trial published this week have shown ...more
196 Diet may
not reduce cancer and CV risk Dietary changes might not reduce
the risk of some cancers and cardiovascular disease, according to a recent
study ...more
196 Hope for
narcoleptics to regain muscle tone Narcoleptics can now be
treated to reduce the loss of muscle tone that narcolepsy induces ...more
196 NEC a risk
with H2 blockers Premature babies given H2 antagonist
drugs are slightly more likely to develop necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) — serious
ulceration of the ileum and colon — according to a recent study
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196 Call for
post-market studies Prospective observational studies should
be carried out for every medicine when it is first marketed, says Portsmouth
University's Drug Safety Research Unit ...more
196 Women lack
information on contraceptive choices Women do not have enough
information about long-acting reversible contraception ...more
R&D news
197 Genetically
engineered bird flu vaccines tested Genetically engineered
avian influenza vaccines have been successfully tested in mice and poultry
by two teams of scientists in the US ...more
197 New drug
could reduce disability following stroke, researchers say Free-radical-trapping
agent NXY-059 has shown benefits in reducing disability in stroke patients
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197 Long-acting
opioid antagonist may benefit pathological gamblers, study data suggest Pathological
addiction to gambling may respond to low doses of the long-acting opioid
antagonist, nalmefene, according to a new study ...more
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