OPERA 2025: Jennifer Stevenson Introducing the first member of the OPERA 2025 shortlist, Jennifer Stevenson, lead pharmacist for older adults at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and an honorary senior lecturer at King’s College London.…
NHS App to be used to recruit patients for clinical trials The Department of Health and Social Care said it is particularly encouraging underrepresented groups, such as people from ethnic minority backgrounds, to sign up to trials.…
Study finds association between GLP-1 use and macular degeneration in diabetes Researchers found that patients with longer durations of exposure to glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists were associated with a higher risk of developing neovascular age-related macular degeneration.…
Almost 80% of pharmacies receive inappropriate antibiotic requests every day, reveals survey The majority of pharmacies surveyed by the National Pharmacy Association also said they were worried that demand for antibiotics for minor ailments “posed a serious risk to patient safety”.…
New antibiotic already causing AMR concerns, study results suggest Researchers also found that ceftazidime with avibactam-resistant bacteria coincided with the presence of carbapenemase genes.…
What do recent reviews of research literature tell us about the evolving role of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences? The pick of recent review papers from the RPS chief scientist’s office.…
Antibiotic could help tackle drug-resistant gonorrhoea, study results suggest Researchers found that gepotidacin was as effective as the current recommended first-line therapy for gonorrhoea.…
Earlier treatment with combination of drugs could prevent 5,000 heart attacks per decade, study results suggest Researchers found that patients who received a combination treatment of statins and ezetimibe within 12 weeks of a heart attack and lowered their cholesterol to target-level early were less at risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths.…
Patients involved in design of fewer than one-fifth of published trials, research shows For articles reporting on randomised controlled trials, published between 2015 and 2023, the researchers found that 18% included patient and public involvement.…
Pharmacists included in latest cohort of NIHR senior investigators The National Institute for Health and Care Research's senior investigators will receive discretionary funding of £20,000 per year of appointment to support research activities, “while they take on a senior leadership role within NIHR”.…
