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Effective pharmaceutical management of Acute Otitis Externa: guidance and prescribing considerations

Topical antibiotic therapy is a well-established and effective treatment for uncomplicated AOE. Many clinical trials have shown topical preparations to be effective, with excellent bacteriologic...

Human immunodeficiency virus: A review into treatment

Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why they occur (Cogan et al, 2003). Epidemiological data can be used to plan and evaluate strategies that can...

The role of the heart failure nurse and use of sodium glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors

The action of SGLT2 inhibitors is to reduce renal glucose and sodium reabsorption in the proximal tubule of the nephron resulting in increased urinary glucose excretion with osmotic and natriuretic...

Steroid-induced diabetes in cancer patients

Steroids are used in various settings in cancer management and treatment side effects, such as nausea, poor appetite and pain flare(Jeong et al, 2016; Ariaans et al, 2015). SIDM is a common and...

Safer consulting in minor illness: Evaluation of an online educational programme for community pharmacists

In 2015, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) was commissioned to develop an educational programme for CPs in Essex, which combined 10 sessions of online learning with one day of face-to-face teaching...

Christmas calculations

Your turkey instructions advise you to cook the bird for 40 minutes per kg plus 20 minutes..

Novel research into glucose-lowering drugs for heart failure shows promise

Alongside important lifestyle changes, first-line treatment for heart failure is an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor and a beta blocker licensed for heart failure in people with reduced...

Research Roundup

Asystematic review published in 2018 synthesised evidence from 42 papers and highlighted the facilitators and barriers to nurse and pharmacist independent prescribing (Graham-Clarke et al, 2018). An...

Statins and the diet-heart hypothesis

‘Fake medical news and fearmongering… plague the cardiovascular world through relentless attacks on statins’ .

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