NHS England commissions community pharmacies to deliver MenB vaccines to young people Eligible students will be offered the first dose of a two-dose meningococcal B disease vaccine from July 2026, with a second dose in August 2026.…
Flu vaccine can prevent up to 14 cases per 100 children, study suggests For every 100 children who have received the flu vaccine, 9–14 of them avoid catching flu, study shows.…
Pharmacies can reform ‘outdated’ childhood vaccination programmes The National Pharmacy Association has urged the NHS to commission pharmacies to offer childhood vaccinations to school-aged children in hopes of increasing vaccination rates among teenagers.…
Health news round-up: new cancer drugs, pharmacogenomics, and whether GLP-1s cause erectile dysfunction Our weekly summary of the important developments in pharmacy and health news you may have missed.…
Paxlovid speeds COVID-19 recovery but does not reduce hospital admissions Across two trials, more than 4,000 patients were randomised to receive usual care or Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir; Pfizer) within three or four days of symptom onset.…
Pharmacies deliver almost 16,000 RSV vaccinations as programme found to cut newborn hospitalisations by up to 85% Babies born at least four weeks after their mother received a respiratory syncytial virus vaccination had nearly 85% protection against the virus.…
Health news round-up: semaglutide and liver health, obesity vaccine response and hope for pancreatic cancer Our weekly summary of the important developments in pharmacy and health news you may have missed.…
Recognition and management of whooping cough As the number of whooping cough cases rise, this article outlines the role of pharmacy in recognising and managing the condition.…
News round-up: long COVID, chikungunya and free supplies of ciprofloxacin Our weekly summary of the important developments in pharmacy and health news you may have missed.…
Everything you need to know about meningitis B Facts about meningitis transmission, its warning signs and vaccine effectiveness, including a summary of what we know about the outbreak in Kent.…
