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Vitamin D levels can affect aggressiveness of melanomas

Patients with malignant melanoma should not be advised to stay out of the sun without taking measures to ensure healthy levels of vitamin D, according to Julia Newton-Bishop, professor of dermatology at the University of Leeds.…

Quarter of pharmacists never speak to parents about childhood headache

More than a quarter of pharmacists (27.6%) say that they have never spoken to a parent or carer about childhood headache, despite the condition occurring in around 60% of children and adolescents.…

Aston’s pharmacy school awarded Regius Professorship

Aston University’s school of pharmacy has been awarded a Regius Professorship by the Queen. The university is one of twelve British institutions to receive an award to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday.…

Healthcare needs a change of culture if it is to thrive and grow

If the healthcare industry is to move forward over the next 20 years, the culture of blame needs to change to encourage healthcare professionals to report errors so that others can learn from them.…

Kirit Patel, ‘giant of independent community pharmacy’, dies aged 66 years

Kirit Patel, co-founder and chief executive of the Day Lewis Group of high street pharmacies, has died suddenly on 16 July 2016 at the age of 66 years.…

Pharmacists ill-equipped to offer nutrition-based advice

Healthcare professionals, including pharmacists, are failing to give patients evidence-based dietary advice that could improve their health because they lack the training to do so, a conference has heard.…

Seven things you need to know about polypharmacy

A recent conference discussed the issues around the “necessary evil” of polypharmacy and how best to tackle it.…

Advanced therapy medicinal products present challenges for pharmacists

Few pharmacists have experience handling advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) — medicines based on genes, cells or tissue engineering — but the field is likely to grow and presents special challenges for pharmacists.…

RPS president questions value of pharmacists seeking consent each time they access a patient’s record

Ash Soni, president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), has questioned whether it is in the best interests of patients to seek consent each time their summary care record (SCR) needs to be accessed.…

Miniaturised drug production has role to play in emergencies, conference hears

Methods for small scale, point-of-use manufacture of drugs have now reached an advanced stage, delegates heard at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists ‘midyear clinical meeting’ in New Orleans, Louisiana.…