News Support for Bill to allow terminal cancer patients access to drugs in development A private members Bill that seeks to allow doctors to prescribe investigational drugs to terminally ill cancer patients has won government backing.…Published: 22 October 2014
News Public call for Roche to cut price of breast cancer drug An online petition calls on the drug company Roche to lower the price of its breast cancer drug Kadcyla to make it cheap enough to be made available on the NHS.…Published: 22 October 2014
News Liberal Democrat peer to lead revalidation advisory groupLord Kirwood of Kirkhope has been appointed chairman of a group set up to provide advice to pharmacy regulators about continuing fitness to practise reforms.…Published: 21 October 2014
News Treatment tested for patients with visceral leishmaniasis and HIV in Africa The efficacy and safety of amphotericin plus miltefosine to treat visceral leishmaniasis patients with HIV will be examined in a Phase III randomized clinical trial in Ethiopia.…Published: 21 October 2014
News Online poll supports practice of pharmacies selling e-cigarettes More than half of people polled by The Pharmaceutical Journal say that pharmacies should stock e-cigarettes.…Published: 17 October 2014
News Pharmacy student numbers will not be controlled Pharmacy student numbers will not be capped, says Health Education England in the long-awaited response to a consultation on pharmacy education and training reforms. …Published: 17 October 2014
News Conflict in Ukraine leads to disruption to HIV and TB treatmentPeople in Ukraine infected with HIV/AIDS or tuberculosis have faced interrupted treatment, says a UN report on the protracted conflict.…Published: 16 October 2014
News Dieters who lose weight quickly just as likely to keep the weight offResearchers tested the effects of slow and steady weight loss against rapid weight loss for long-term weight control, and found no difference.…Published: 16 October 2014
News Treatment of schizophrenia should not be limited to drugs, says WHOTreatment of schizophrenia should not be limited to pharmacotherapy but should also include psychosocial interventions, says the World Health Organization (WHO).…Published: 15 October 2014
News Phase II clinical trials for Ebola vaccine planned for early 2015Experts involved in the organisation of clinical research on Ebola vaccines intend to move to randomised controlled phase II trials in early 2015.…Published: 14 October 2014