‘No evidence’ that paracetamol use during pregnancy causes autism, ADHD or intellectual disabilities, meta-analysis finds Study authors noted that earlier meta-analyses suggested slight associations with paracetamol use during pregnancy and risk of autism and ADHD, but those findings were “often based on studies prone to biases”.…
Case-based learning: women’s health and anticoagulation How considerations for anticoagulation in the presence of heavy menstrual bleeding can change over a woman’s life course.…
From pain to wellbeing: why deprescribing might be the most powerful prescription of all Pharmacist Shilpa Patel shares how staff at her GP practice worked to reduce high-dose opioid prescribing among patients who had taken the drugs for years.…
GPhC writes to pharmacy teams after methotrexate dispensed with instruction to take once daily An email sent by Roz Gittins, chief pharmacy officer at the GPhC, advised pharmacy teams to supply methotrexate in line with a drug safety update published by the MHRA in September 2020.…
Levetiracetam information updated to include studies that suggest no link to autism The updated summary of product characteristics for the anti-epileptic medicine now includes two observational studies.…
Weight-loss drugs: is social media promotion to teenagers still a problem? Following an investigation conducted by The Pharmaceutical Journal in 2022, which revealed that weight-loss drugs were being promoted to teenagers on TikTok, we look at whether anything has changed.…
Barcode errors ‘potentially fatal’, warns patient safety commissioner Exclusive: All four UK chief pharmaceutical officers also wrote an open letter to pharmaceutical companies earlier this year urging them to continue 2D barcodes on medicine packs, despite it no longer being mandatory following Brexit.…
How safe are GLP-1s? As the use of weight-loss drugs continues to increase, there has been a rise in documented side effects. But what are the serious and unwanted effects of these drugs, and is Yellow Card reporting capturing enough information?…
Rapid review finds no clear link between autism and paracetamol in pregnancy Seven of the nine reviews concerning maternal paracetamol use during pregnancy warned against inferring a causal link, researchers found.…
‘Balanced’ guidance on isotretinoin welcomed as MHRA launches survey The Commission on Human Medicines-endorsed updates to isotretinoin guidance encourages patients to ask about mental health or sexual dysfunction side effects associated with the drug in follow-up consultations.…
