Pharmaceutical industry

Using technology to enhance pharmaceutical care

Tomorrow’s pharmacists will have a wealth of technologies at their disposal to assist them with both patient care and professional development.…

When it comes to working in the industry, pharmacists have greater competition

There is a diverse range of roles for pharmacists in the pharmaceutical industry, so the training of undergraduates should equip them to work in all of these fields.…

Poor quality medicines pose a danger to patients

The Medicines Quality Database aims to tackle the problem of substandard medicines.…

Paediatric formulations of tuberculosis drugs are urgently needed as the disease re-emerges

Unless there are new paediatric formulations of drugs for tuberculosis, it is likely that multidrug resistant strains of the disease will develop.…

Supply shortages of antiretrovirals can have devastating consequences for patients

Medication non-adherence is not always within the patient’s control. Poor supply chain management and natural or other disasters can threaten access as well.…

OTC domperidone will be missed

The antiemetic domperidone’s reclassification shows the importance of pharmacovigilance, but the loss of such a useful over-the-counter medicine ought to have been better communicated to community pharmacies.…

NICE puts brakes on its planned overhaul of drugs evaluation processes

England’s health technology body will not push ahead with its proposed introduction of value-based assessments — including burden of illness and societal impact — in the evaluation of new drugs for use by the NHS.…

Still feeling the Vioxx pain

Ten years after Vioxx was abruptly withdrawn from the market, its story is still affecting society’s perception of the drug regulatory system and the safety of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.…

Pharmaceutical industry pays £150m back to NHS

The pharmaceutical industry has paid £150m to the NHS in the first six months under the new terms of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS), which was agreed with the Department of Health in November 2013.…

Driving after taking drugs and medicines

Find out how new drug driving rules coming into force from March 2015 will affect your patients.…