PJ, 22/29 August 2015, Vol 295, No 7876/7

Fattening up the NHS drugs bill

More people diagnosed with diabetes, increased number of patients requiring drug treatment and rising costs of newer antidiabetic medicines all add to a hefty drugs bill for the NHS.…

Time to limit the damage caused by inaccurate stories about pharmacists accessing medical records

Scaremongering stories from newspapers could damage the trust between pharmacy and the public.…

RPS raises membership fees for first time since 2010 demerger

Membership fees to rise in January 2016 for the first time in five years.…

Membership fees 2016

For the past five years, the headline fee for membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has remained at £192 per year. The RPS Assembly has decided that, to continue to provide and develop the excellent services that members tell us they want from the Society, a moderate increase in…

Under treatment of venous thromboembolism persists in cardiac unit

Researchers introduced a new protocol in a cardiology unit to help ensure patients at risk were put on anticoagulants, but there were still high rates of under treatment.…

Opioid drugs produced from engineered strain of yeast

Researchers have successfully introduced the enzymes needed to synthesise opioids into a strain of engineered yeast, which could be used as an alternative opioid source to the poppy.…

Benefits of insulin in Alzheimer’s disease analysed in mouse study

Researchers study mice to determine how insulin can improve symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.…

New Ebola vaccine may have 100% efficacy

The initial results from a trial in Guinea found the new vaccine against Ebola virus to be highly effective and safe.…

How apps are being used in community pharmacy

Apps are being used widely, with over 100 billion downloaded worldwide in 2014. Some pharmacies are embracing the technology to help provide more services for their patients.…

John Gibbs dies

On 18 April 2015, John Gibbs MRPharmS, aged 78, of Broadstairs, Kent. Mr Gibbs registered with the Society in 1960.…