More than 1 million contraception appointments delivered by pharmacies in six months The 1,007,415 pharmacy contraception service consultations included 375,040 emergency hormonal contraception consultations.…
MHRA approves first lower-carbon pressurised metered dose inhalers for asthma The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said that the new versions of the Clenil Modulite 100mcg and 200mcg asthma inhalers have a lower carbon footprint compared with older propellants.…
Switching between weight-loss medications This article proposes practical approaches for safe, effective switching between tirzepatide and semaglutide.…
Health news round-up: coffee, ADHD prescribing, and GLP-1s and hair loss The Pharmaceutical Journal’s weekly summary of the important developments in pharmacy and health news you may have missed.…
Study develops first framework to estimate country-level antibiotic need The Independent Panel for Evidence for Action on AMR will evaluate targets, policies and regulations to help countries improve their antibiotic use and access.…
Novo Nordisk sues Eli Lilly over ‘misleading’ GLP-1 advertising Novo Nordisk claims that Lilly’s advertising campaigns intentionally used outdated studies to offer “proof of broad, product-level superiority” of its Zepbound and Mounjaro products over Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Ozempic products.…
PJ view: Patients deserve a regulatory system built to keep them safe as oral semaglutide launches Regulators have taken welcome steps to tackle counterfeit weight-loss medicines, but patients cannot be left to police this market alone.…
NICE draft guidance recommends finerenone for type of chronic heart failure The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence noted that indirect comparison suggests that finerenone may work as well as spironolactone in treating heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction in adults.…
Health news round-up: vaccination, testosterone and neighbourhood health The Pharmaceutical Journal’s weekly summary of the important developments in pharmacy and health news you may have missed.…
Coroner raises concerns over lack of national guidance on prescribing for hepatitis B reactivation A patient died from complications from reactivation of hepatitis B, after the supply of viral reactivation prophylaxis was inadvertently discontinued.…
