This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
Discussing contraception can be an emotive issue for certain patient groups, and health professionals need to be supportive of women's personal and religious beliefs, and mindful of the terminology...
All travellers visiting areas where malaria is present are at risk of acquiring the disease, particularly UK residents who were born in malaria risk areas and return to visit friends and relatives in...
The COVID-19 pandemic led to rapid adaptation of health and public health systems on a global scale (Simões et al, 2020). For example, in Beirut, Lebanon, the largest STI and HIV clinics have remained...
Does this patient meet the NICE criteria for commencing orlistat (NICE, 2014)? Calculate his BMI using the formula:
As I write my final editorial for the Journal of Prescribing Practice, I reflect on my nearly four-years and the significant developments within the non-medical prescribing sector during this time. It...
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended a weight loss drug to be made available in specialist NHS services. The drug, semaglutide, has shown promising results in...
Day 1: Monoclonal Antibody Drugs (MABs) were first generated in the 1970s and were first licensed in the 1980s for transplant rejection. The advancing technology in the 1990s led to improved B cell...
Sotomi et al (2023) examine the use of machine learning to identify cohorts of a population that may benefit from specific medications. The team had previously established a machine learning-based...
This cohort study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, aimed to identify trends in antipsychotic drug prescribing to children and adolescents in England (Radojčić et al, 2023). This was driven...
The connection between the pancreas, the gut and incretins – hormones released into the blood by the intestine in response to food – was established in the early twentieth century (Knudsen and Lau,...
One of the primary symptoms of acute bronchitis is a cough, which can be productive or unproductive. Other symptoms or clinical signs that may suggest lower respiratory tract infection and no...
The revised NICE (2021) guidelines (NG209): Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence, recommended greater flexibility and clearer guidance in the use of nicotine...
Journal of Prescribing Practice shares the latest clinical expertise and professional guidance for non-medical prescribers. Our goal is to provide the knowledge to help you prescribe more efficiently and effectively.
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