Public would expect pharmacists to join professional body, says chairman of GPhC The chairman of the General Pharmaceutical Council has said it is “quite wrong” that there are pharmacists who think they do not need to join their professional body.…
Role for smartphones and social media in medicine safety An app will be developed to make it easy for healthcare professionals and the public to report suspected adverse drug reactions.…
Ten-year study by Takeda calls into question pioglitazone’s link with bladder cancer Use of the diabetes drug pioglitazone is not associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer, the drug’s manufacturer Takeda has claimed.…
Domperidone must be supplied on prescription, MHRA rules Domperidone (Motilium), used to treat nausea and vomiting, will be a prescription-only medicine from 4 September 2014.…
Healthcare at Home has further two months to tackle service problems A home delivery medicine service with responsibility for more than 150,000 patients has been given another two months to get its house in order.…
Pharmacogenomics — the key to developing personalised medicinesIn our final “-omics” science article, Hamde Nazar takes a look at research and development in the field of pharmacogenomics and its importance in medicine today…