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RPS urges patients to seek medicines information from ‘trusted source’ after Trump links paracetamol and autism

The president of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society urged anyone with concerns about their medicines to speak to a pharmacist or a trusted healthcare professional.…

Antipsychotic prescribing in dementia does not follow NICE guidance, study shows

Researchers found that the prescribing of antipsychotics for older people with dementia goes on longer than advised, which increases the risk of avoidable harms.…

More research needed into psychedelics for mental illness treatment, says Royal College of Psychiatrists

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has also called for the creation of a centralise patient database to monitor the use of psychedelics and related substances, as well as their effects.…

RCGP and BMA urge government to put GP Connect rollout ‘on hold’

In a position statement, the two bodies' Joint GP IT Committee outlined three “necessary steps” that should be taken to ensure GP Connect is ready for use with Pharmacy First.…

Health news round-up: diabetes and weight-loss news from EASD

Senior clinical reporter Joanna Robertson summarises clinical trial results from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes conference in Vienna.…

Daily GLP-1 receptor agonist pill leads to ‘significant’ weight loss

Average body weight loss in participants taking 36mg of orforglipron (Emgality; Eli Lilly) was 11.2%.…

Valproate has no significant impact on male fertility, study finds

Researchers found that prior studies that linked valproate to male infertility in patients with epilepsy mainly used healthy men without epilepsy as controls.…

Highlighting the discrepancy between awareness and practice of safe household medication disposal 

Zita Zachariah, managing editor of the RPS research journals, speaks with Bee Yean Low, whose research has uncovered knowledge and facility deficits resulting in the public’s positive attitude towards medicine disposal not being translated into practice.…

NICE recommends first immunotherapy for limited-stage small cell lung cancer

Guidance says that durvalumab can be used alongside active monitoring of patients who have completed chemotherapy.…

Pharmacies must be part of national HIV prevention strategies, researchers urge

The authors of a policy briefing ran the first pilot of pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery through five community pharmacies in England.…