FDA approves drug for dry eye disease A new class of drug is being made available in the United States to treat the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease, the US Food and Drug Administration has announced.…
Pill organisers could put older patients at risk of adverse events The use of pill organisers by older people could increase the risk of drug-related adverse events, say researchers.…
Deaths: Cyril KimeIn March 2016, Cyril Kime MRPharmS, aged 85, of Croydon, Surrey. Mr Kime registered with the Society in 1956. …
High Court rules that pharmacy relocation would inconvenience women seeking emergency contraception The High Court has ruled against plans to relocate a Derby pharmacy because of the potential impact on women seeking emergency hormonal contraception.…
GPhC sheds light on lower pass rates in Black-African pharmacy students An investigation into why Black-African trainee pharmacists perform less well in the registration assessments has been carried out by the General Pharmaceutical Council and the results suggest they could be more likely to struggle because many are also mature or overseas students.…
GSK and AstraZeneca chiefs brought into ministerial Brexit working group The chief executive officers of the UK’s leading pharmaceutical companies will be advising the government on the main priorities for the life sciences sector in the event of the UK leaving the EU.…
Home visit service could reduce medicines-related harm for vulnerable adults Providing a medicines optimisation service to frail and vulnerable people at home can reduce the risk of medicines-related harm and could prevent hospital admissions, say the authors of a report in Clinical Pharmacist.…
Rio Olympics: how will scientists outpace drug cheats? Some athletes are willing to take huge risks by using drugs to gain a competitive advantage. But anti-doping scientists are working hard to improve detection methods and develop new strategies to ensure a fair competition and to protect athletes’ health.…
What impact will personalised medicine have on pharmacy? Gino Martini, a representative of the RPS Pharmaceutical Sciences External Advisory Panel and recently appointed chair of the RPS Industrial Pharmacy Forum, discusses the increasingly important impact of personalised medicines on pharmacists and other healthcare professionals. …
Superdrug reports surge in profits for 2015 Profits for high street retailer Superdrug, which operates just over 200 pharmacies, more than doubled in 2015, according to official figures published on 5 July 2016.…
