PJ, March 2018, Vol 300, No 7911

Twitter can help monitor drug safety, research finds

Tweets can reveal which drug side effects patients are discussing the most in online conversations…

Cancer Research-funded study suggests quit-smoking services should work with vape shops

Stop-smoking services should consider working with reputable vape shops to ensure that people attempting to quit smoking using e-cigarettes receive the highest level of support.…

Deaths: George William Norris

On 24 January 2018, George William Norris MRPharmS, aged 84 years, of Portishead, Somerset. Mr Norris registered with the Society in 1956. Mr Norris was appointed as a Pharmaceutical Society inspector in 1967 for the North and East London areas, holding the post for 30 years. Norris registered…

Keeping the record straight on the availability of gene therapy for common variable immunodeficiency

A letter from Bill Gerber, published in The Pharmaceutical Journal in December 2017, which assessed gene therapy Strimvelis (indicated for a rare form of severe combined immunodeficiency [SCID]), is misleading and risks sowing confusion among patients living with common variable immunodeficiency (CV…

Cardiff University alumni: contribute to pharmacy centenary commemorations

In October 2019, the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Cardiff University celebrates a centenary of pharmacy education. The School’s plans to mark this occasion include the publication of a book that explores the full 100 years of its history, alongside a programme of eve…

Working to reverse the cognitive decline of dementia

The end of Alzheimer’s: the first programme to prevent and reverse the cognitive decline of dementia, by Dale E Bredesen…

Potential for delivering hepatitis C care in community pharmacy

We read with interest the article by Cook and Buchanan in the November issue of The Pharmaceutical Journal . It is apparent that there is a very different state of play in Scotland compared with the situation in England and Wales, as explained by these authors, who note that further c…