Pharmacists in India to alert customers to maximum price they can be charged for medicines Medicines regulators in India have put forward proposals to ensure that consumers know the maximum price that they should be charged for certain medicines.…
More evidence that fat is the sixth primary sense of tasteAlong with salt, sour, sweet, bitter and umami, our taste buds may be able to detect fat, research suggests.…
Five tips to change your pharmacy from a “shop” to a “healthcare business” In a skit at Sigma conference in Aamby Valley City, John Zucker and Ash Pandya discussed how to make changes to your pharmacy. Emma Page describes their advice.…
Make small, practical changes at a local level to benefit your customers The annual Sigma conference, this year held in Aamby Valley City, India, provided an opportunity for pharmacists to discuss how to improve their pharmacies for the benefit of their patients and their businesses.…
My placement at the Spinal Injury Centre in IndiaPharmacy student Rutendo Muzambi describes her experience of working at a spinal injury centre in New Delhi, India…
Drug discovery returns to the wild Researchers now have the tools to unlock the potential of previously uncultivated microbes, prompting a return to drug discovery from natural products.…
Putting cosmeceuticals in context ‘Handbook of cosmeceutical excipients and their safeties’, by Kwan Yu Heng, Tung Yee Kei, Kochhar Jaspreet Singh, Li Hairui, Poh Ai-Ling and Kang Lifeng.…
EMA recommends suspending licences for 700 drugs over flawed analyses by GVK BiosciencesThe European Medicines Agency is recommending that the marketing authorisation be suspended for more than 700 generic products tested by GVK Biosciences.…
Cost of vaccines becoming unaffordable in developing countries, charity warns The cost of vaccines recommended by the World Health Organization has gone up 68-fold over the past 13 years, according to international aid charity Médecins sans Frontières.…
Alternative to standard artemisinin combination therapy identified for children with uncomplicated malaria Artemisinin-naphthoquine given as three daily doses offers an alternative to artemether-lumefantrine, which is given as six doses over three days.…
