Clinical research

Behavioural medicine lecturer wins award for early-career pharmacy research

Sion Scott was selected as the winner of the 2024 Outstanding Pharmacy Early-Career Researcher Award for his research using behavioural science to facilitate routine deprescribing of medicines where the risks outweigh their benefits.…

UK should be a ‘stronger destination’ for medicine manufacturers, says Wes Streeting

The shadow health secretary said the NHS was not realising “anywhere near the full potential” of partnering with the life sciences industry on clinical trials and adopting and rolling out new treatments.…

Combination treatment before surgery improves melanoma survival rates, study results show

The 12-month event-free survival rate for patients with macroscopic stage III node-positive melanoma was 83.7% with the combination treatment, compared with 57.2% for adjuvant therapy alone.…

Osimertinib treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer increases survival rates, study finds

Patients treated with osimertinib had an average of 39.1 months of progression-free survival, compared with 5.6 months in those given placebo.…

Our experience as pharmacists in ‘SPACE’

Three pharmacists describe their experience working on the multicentre SPACE study, which aims to tackle false penicillin allergy labels.…

Guiding better research or stifling it?

The pick of the month’s academic papers from Parastou Donyai, chief scientist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.…

Semaglutide lowers risk of kidney failure and cardiovascular death in patients with type 2 diabetes and CKD, study results show

Experts say this is an “important trial in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus”, offering the possibility of semiglutide as an additional treatment option for slowing the progression of chronic kidney disease.…

Early intensive glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes provides near-lifelong protection, study finds

Study results showed the overall risk of death from any cause was reduced by 10–20% in participants with type 2 diabetes mellitus treated with intensive glycaemic control.…

Writing for pleasure or pain?

This month’s pick of academic papers from Parastou Donyai, chief pharmacist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.…

Maintaining trust in science and increasing research literacy

This month’s pick of academic papers from Parastou Donyai, chief scientist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.…