Support for Bill to allow terminal cancer patients access to drugs in development A private members Bill that seeks to allow doctors to prescribe investigational drugs to terminally ill cancer patients has won government backing.…
Public call for Roche to cut price of breast cancer drug An online petition calls on the drug company Roche to lower the price of its breast cancer drug Kadcyla to make it cheap enough to be made available on the NHS.…
Preventing falls in older people How pharmacy teams can reduce the risk of falls in elderly people by identifying risk factors and managing medicines.…
Medication errors common in children A child is subject to a medication error every eight minutes in the United States, according to research that analysed calls to national poison hotlines.…
Treatment tested for patients with visceral leishmaniasis and HIV in Africa The efficacy and safety of amphotericin plus miltefosine to treat visceral leishmaniasis patients with HIV will be examined in a Phase III randomized clinical trial in Ethiopia.…
Investigating treatment strategies for the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus Researchers are investigating a number of ways to combat the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, including using existing drugs.…
To prescribe or not to prescribe, that is the question…A patient with asthma comes into your community pharmacy to collect his regular inhalers. Johnathan Laird describes an intervention you could make.…
My first rotationAt the end of her rotation covering diabetes wards, Sadia Naeem reflects on what she learnt from the experience.…
Human embryonic stem cells appear to be safe for use in macular degeneration Visual acuity improved in the eyes of patients with macular degeneration being treated with embryonic stem cells.…
Cardiac surgery: caring for a patient and managing complications Life-threatening complications following cardiac surgery are common, but can be managed with appropriate treatment.…