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Oral ulceration: causes and management

Patients often present in community pharmacy with mouth ulcers. This article describes the aetiology, presentation and treatment options for six types.…

Published: 19 March 2019

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Managing dental emergencies in community pharmacy: soft tissue conditions

What advice pharmacists and their teams can give to patients presenting with soft tissue dental conditions in community pharmacy.…

Published: 28 August 2018

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Advising patients on prevention and management of sporting injuries in the pharmacy

How to identify common sporting injuries and provide specific advice to patients on their effective management, including the role of over-the-counter pharmacological treatments, as well as when to refer for specialist assessment and treatment.…

Published: 10 August 2016

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Case study: Differential indicators for migraine and medication-overuse headache

Exploring questions to be considered when managing a patient with regular headaches.…

Published: 25 September 2015

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Worsening pain in palliative care

A 78-year-old man with advanced lung cancer is receiving palliative care but his abdominal pain has progressively worsened.…

Published: 1 March 2014

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Managing post-operative pain

In the eighth article of a series on peri-operative care, Mohamed H. Rahman and Jane Beattie focus on the physiology of pain and briefly describe the non-opioid and opioid analgesics used for post-operative pain relief…

Published: 30 July 2005

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Anaesthesia and surgical pain relief — the ideal general anaesthetic agent

The aim of this article is to describe the properties of the ideal anaesthetic agent, review how close today’s anaesthetic agents are to the ideal and look at the future for anaesthetic agents.…

Published: 3 November 2003