Class 1 recall issued for quetiapine oral suspension A national patient safety alert said that pharmacy teams must immediately stop supplying affected products, as well as quarantine and return any remaining stock.…
Two-prescriber sign-off no longer required for isotretinoin The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said that scrapping the two-prescriber requirement will address delays in access to acne treatment for patients aged under 18 years old.…
Drug consumption room pilot records more than 1,000 injecting episodes in a month According to latest service data on The Thistle, a drug consumption facility in Glasgow, 560 people used the site's services more than 10,000 times in 2025.…
Aspirin added to list of medicines that cannot be exported from UK or hoarded The list contains medicines that have evidence or risk of critical shortages, which could adversely impact UK patients.…
‘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.…
