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Pharmacies should collect workforce disability data, concludes Scottish pharmacy roundtable

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians from across Scotland met to discuss how to better enable people with disabilities to work in pharmacy.…

Pioneering pharmacy professionals celebrated in 2022 ‘Women to Watch’ list

For this year's list, 12 women were selected for breaking boundaries and improving patient care.…

New approaches to male contraception

Attitudes to male contraception are starting to shift, opening up a potential market in which researchers are hopeful the pharmaceutical industry will want to invest.…

Pharmacy’s link with the natural world

The pick of November's academic papers from Parastou Donyai, chief scientist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.…

Nominate an outstanding early-career pharmacy researcher for a new award

Help us find and celebrate outstanding early-career researchers who are accomplishing great things in pharmacy.…

‘Strong certainty’ that e-cigarettes are better than other nicotine replacement therapy for quitting smoking, review finds

People using e-cigarettes were 63% more likely to quit smoking than those using other nicotine replacement therapy, according to a Cochrane review.…

National Institute for Health and Care Research to fund new phase of platform trial to assess treatments for severe flu

The 'Randomised, embedded, multi-factorial, adaptive platform trial for community-acquired pneumonia' was also designed to assess several treatments during a respiratory pandemic, such as COVID-19.…

Department of Health to begin ‘emergency review’ of community pharmacy services in Northern Ireland

The review will aim to define the services that can be “reliably delivered this winter”, the Department of Health said.…

NSAIDs fail to reduce joint inflammation for people with arthritis of the knee, study results show

Comparing two groups of people with synovitis, researchers found that those treated with long-term oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs had worse synovitis than those not treated with the drugs.…

Katie Maddock: ‘Implementing clinical placements will be a seismic shock for the profession’

Stepping into the role of chair of the Pharmacy Schools Council during a shake-up of pharmacy education, Katie Maddock talks about the future for pharmacy students and foundation trainees.…