Over-the-counter treatments for athlete’s foot This fungal skin infection is estimated to affect more than 15% of the world’s population. Make sure your pharmacy team knows how to advise patients in managing this common condition.…
Community pharmacy handbook launched by RPS Faculty Starting to build a professional portfolio can be daunting but the RPS Faculty has a new resource for pharmacists in the community.…
Explore the latest MEP The 38th edition of ‘Medicines, Ethics and Practice’ was distributed to RPS members in July. Rakhee Amin, on behalf of the RPS Support team, explains what is new in the resource.…
Quality control of clinical information Pharmacist Nicola Clargo describes her chance career in medical informatics and how it gives her the opportunity to make a difference to patient safety.…
Protein identified that increases resistance to chemotherapy Researchers from Barts Cancer Institute have identified a role for endothelial Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) in regulating tumour chemosensitivity.…
Scientists engineer ‘α-sheet’ to neutralise amyloid proteins Researchers have confirmed the existence of a toxic intermediary in the development of amyloid proteins and have designed a protein to neutralise it.…
Community pharmacists identify people at risk of diabetesPharmacists can identify patients who have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, research by the University of East Anglia and Boots UK confirms.…
Personal contact from pharmacist enhances patients’ adherence to medicinesInterventions that include counselling by a pharmacist help patients with cardiovascular diseases adhere to their medicines, UK research shows.…
Study sheds light on genetic basis of schizophreniaResearchers find more than a hundred specific locations in the human genome associated with risk for the brain disease.…
