Paediatrics

Health news round-up: new biosimilars, vaccine effectiveness and supporting patients ageing with HIV

A weekly summary of important developments in health news that you may have missed.…

Could dedicated pharmacists help improve neonatal care’s medicines safety problem?

Though standards have been set to improve pharmacist staffing in neonatal and paediatric critical care, an investigation by The Pharmaceutical Journal has uncovered slow progress.…

NHS England commissions study on effects of puberty blockers

The ‘Pathways trial’ will assess the impact of GnRH analogues for puberty suppression in more than 200 children and young people aged under 16 years.…

How can the NHS make the most of the paediatric pharmacogenomics opportunity?

Attendees at a roundtable hosted by The Pharmaceutical Journal discussed challenges around implementing pharmacogenomic prescribing in the NHS and particular considerations for paediatric patients.…

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Oral insulin found to delay onset of type 1 diabetes in children

Researchers found that the progression to type 1 diabetes mellitus was around 50% slower in infants genetically at risk of the disease who received oral insulin for three years compared to the placebo group.…

MHRA sets out plans to speed up access to rare disease therapies

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said “the rulebook for rare disease therapies will be overhauled" to make it quicker and easier to get therapies tested and approved.…

Health news round-up: newborns, hormones and a colour-changing label to help spot heat damage

Senior clinical reporter Joanna Robertson summarises some important developments in health news you may have missed.…

Health news round-up: mosquitoes, new HIV guidelines and research into cannabis and psilocybin

Senior clinical reporter Joanna Robertson summarises some important developments in health news.…

Combination inhaler therapy cuts asthma attacks in children by almost half

Study results revealed that the annualised rate of asthma attacks was lower in participants who used a budesonide-formoterol inhaler compared with participants who used a short-acting β2-agonist inhaler.…

Valproate in pregnancy reaches lowest level yet, data suggest

Sodium valproate prescriptions for women and girls aged 12 to 54 years have almost halved since measures were introduced to reduce prescribing in April 2018.…