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The Supervision Practice Group, which comprises community pharmacy, pharmacist and pharmacy technician representative organisations, has published a report on how supervision in community pharmacy...

Drug Breakdown: Isotretinoin

Day 1: A synthetic vitamin A derivative, #isotretinoin was discovered in the 1950s & originally used for skin cancer. Its effect on the cell cycle led to the discovery of efficacy for severe acne...

Medical royal colleges ‘receive millions from drug and medical devices companies’

Royal colleges in the UK have received more than £9 million in marketing payments from drug and medical devices companies since 2015, but do not always disclose the payments publicly, finds an...

Rheumatology and prescribing

This article, published in the journal Rheumatology, looked at the newly published guidance by the British Society for Rheumatology. The article outlines the need for the guidance and discusses the...

Maintaining a patent ductus arteriosus with prostaglandins

The following scenario considers the case of a 2 kg neonate with critical pulmonary stenosis that requires a continuous intravenous infusion of prostaglandin E2 to prevent her duct from closing. The...

An evidence-based guide to smoking cessation therapies

Smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature mortality (Department of Health (DH), 1998; 2000). In recent decades, the UK government has introduced a range of initiatives to reduce...

Managing side effects of contraception

There are 14 methods of contraception, and side effects are usually associated with hormonal and intrauterine methods. These methods will now be considered individually by method, exploring the...

Ethics and pharmacists

According to Singer (1979:2), ‘… an ethical judgment that is no good in practice must suffer from a theoretical defect as well, for the whole point of ethical judgments is to guide practice.’ With the...

Giving opportunistic patient advice

This comprises a number of documents on behaviour change – everything from general approaches through adult weight management to stop smoking interventions. We’re interested in ‘behaviour change...

Maintaining a patent ductus arteriosus with prostaglandins: answers

What is the concentration of the syringe (in ng/ml) to be used for this child?

NHS Long Term Workforce Plan launched

The UK government has now published its strategy for the NHS, the ‘NHS Long Term Workforce Plan’, which it calls ‘a strategic direction for the long term, as well as concrete and pragmatic action to...

Updates

The Department of Health and Social Care has released a notification regarding medicine supply for GLP-1 receptor agonists used to manage type 2 diabetes. It says there are very limited, intermittent...

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