Case-based learning: palliative and end-of-life care in community pharmacy Community pharmacists encounter patients at all stages in their life; however, patients who require palliative care require dedicated time and special consideration.…
MHRA ‘assessing reports’ of respiratory illness outbreak linked to e-cigarettes in the United States The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is reviewing information about a respiratory illness that has been linked to e-cigarette use in the United States.…
‘Worrying’ number of patients prescribed risky anticoagulant drug combinations Tens of thousands of patients are potentially being put at risk of a major bleed by being prescribed an antiplatelet without gastroprotection or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug alongside an anticoagulant, NHS figures have shown.…
Forgotten patients: thousands left on risky anticoagulant combinations Combinations of drugs involving anticoagulants are one of the most frequent causes of medicine-related hospital admissions, but pharmacists can help reduce the risk.…
Prevention of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw Severe bone damage in the jaw occurs in some people as an adverse reaction to certain medicines commonly used in the treatment of cancer and osteoporosis. There are a range of settings where pharmacists can contribute to the prevention of this painful and difficult-to-treat condition. …
Heart failure, older people and frailty Diagnosis of heart failure and frailty can often be masked by other long-term conditions, making the delivery of treatment goals complicated.…
Vitamin D not protective against cardiovascular events Vitamin D supplementation is not associated with a reduced risk of major cardiovascular events, a meta-analysis suggests.…
Majority of Welsh community pharmacists have never submitted a Yellow Card report, study finds More than half of community pharmacists in Wales have never submitted a Yellow Card report, according to survey results published in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.…
MMR: the struggle for national coverage Introduction of a measles vaccine in 1968 has reduced annual cases in England from around 460,000 to less than 1,000. However, the levels of vaccine coverage needed to eradicate measles remain elusive.…
Warnings on ‘diet’ drug must go further, RPS says The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has welcomed moves to highlight the potential lethal risks of the fertiliser 2,4 dinitrophenol that is used in some diet pills, but says they do not go far enough and reiterated its call for it to be banned.…
