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Looking back at 2024: a review of the biggest stories in pharmacy

In this episode, The PJ team revisits 2024 in pharmacy before sharing predictions for the year ahead.…

Your views on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s royal college proposals

PJ view: There are still reasons to be optimistic about pharmacy in 2025, despite a challenging 2024

Working across boundaries to enable research in pharmacy

Learning and CPD: 2024 in review

News

Approval of new NHS drugs results in population health ‘trade-offs’, study results suggest
Pharmacy contract negotiations to start in new year, says health secretary
Government advises ICBs set up local plans to address PERT supply shortages
MHRA eliminates backlog of medicines awaiting marketing authorisation
Pharmacy First treatment options should be broadened to support antimicrobial stewardship, says CCA

Learning & CPD

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How to use clinical reasoning in pharmacy

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Test yourself: the 2024 CPD and learning quiz

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Prescribing dilemmas: angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors for heart failure in an older patient

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Maternal vaccination: rationale, recommendations and role of pharmacists

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Adrenal insufficiency: pathophysiology, diagnosis and management

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Test your knowledge of pain management

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Prescribing dilemma: clozapine prescribing in prison

Haemato-oncology

Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma. Light micrograph of a mixture of lymphocytes and plasma cells with inclusions, from bone marrow, in a case of lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, also known as Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia. This cancer affects B cell lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell. It is named for the resemblance the abnormal cells have to plasma cells, resulting in them being termed plasmacytoid lymphocytes. The white blood cells are stained purple, with the red blood cells appearing a pale orange.

Management of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia

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BTK inhibitors: what pharmacists need to know

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BRUKINSA: a next-generation BTK inhibitor

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Genomics

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NICE recommends alternative corticosteroid for people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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More than 2,000 patients tested in UK’s first routine genotyping project for clopidogrel prescribing

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Lessons from testing 2,300 patients at the UK’s first CYP2C19 genotyping system

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First gene-editing therapy recommended by NICE to treat people with beta thalassaemia

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Closing the ethnicity gap in pharmacogenomics

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Screening for gene variants should be broadened to reduce health inequalities, systematic review concludes

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Test yourself: the 2023 CPD and Learning quiz

Tributes & obituaries

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