NHS rolls out new multiple sclerosis injection that cuts treatment time by 90% The NHS will be one of the first healthcare systems in the world to offer the new injection in the “coming weeks”.…
Joint guidance for asthma recommends replacing SABA with corticosteroid inhalers The draft guidance proposes the use of combined inhaled corticosteroid/formoterol inhalers over previously preferred short-acting beta agonists.…
Greener inhaler propellant is therapeutically equivalent to traditional alternatives, study results suggest Study authors reported overall bioequivalence between inhalers that use HFA-152a as a propellant and traditionally used devices with HFA-134a as a propellant.…
Half of UK adults affected by drug shortages since 2022, finds survey Respondents to a survey by the British Generic Manufacturers Association reported going without their medication or travelling to other pharmacies to try and source their medicine as a result of shortages.…
Combination treatment significantly increases chance of five-year Alzheimer’s survival, study results show Experts said the large study had found "small but significant effects" of combination treatment with donepezil and memantine in Alzheimer's disease.…
Combination treatment before surgery improves melanoma survival rates, study results show The 12-month event-free survival rate for patients with macroscopic stage III node-positive melanoma was 83.7% with the combination treatment, compared with 57.2% for adjuvant therapy alone.…
Pregabalin prescribing increases by almost 25% since restrictions imposed Exclusive: Almost 670,000 patients in England were prescribed pregabalin when it was first reclassified in 2018/2019, compared with more than 820,000 patients in 2023/2024.…
Stopping antidepressants causes withdrawal symptoms in 15% of patients, meta-analysis finds Researchers estimated one in six to seven people will experience withdrawal symptoms when stopping antidepressants.…
Potency warning labels for topical steroids to be introduced following reports of adverse reactions The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said it had received 267 Yellow Card reports of withdrawal reactions from topical steroids in two years.…
Our experience as pharmacists in ‘SPACE’ Three pharmacists describe their experience working on the multicentre SPACE study, which aims to tackle false penicillin allergy labels.…
