Dengue risk for international travellers from the UK

Multimodal management of low back pain with sciatica in primary care

A novel antidepressant intervention for outpatient psychiatry

Effective management of chronic urticaria

Medication management in older adults: selecting antidepressants

Finerenone and diabetic renal disease: a narrative review

A narrative review was conducted on the potential benefits of finerenone for diabetic kidney disease. Free and paid full-text publications and articles indexed in PUBMED, Science Direct, and Google...

Use of oral nutritional supplements

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE, 2006) has shown that substantial cost savings can be achieved through identifying and treating malnutrition, subsequently reducing health...

Pharmacokinetics in older people: an overview of prescribing practice

This section will delve into the specific changes that occur in the pharmacokinetic processes – absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion – as people age. Each subsection will discuss the...

Prescribing hepatitis A vaccines in the UK

Infected people shed hepatitis A virus in their faeces and are most infectious 1–2 weeks before they get any clinical signs and symptoms, such as jaundice or raised liver enzymes (when virus...

Strategies to improve adherence to inhaled therapies in asthma and COPD

The appropriate management of asthma and COPD remains challenging despite the availability of effective treatments. It must be acknowledged that merely prescribing the right medication is insufficient...

Post-operative medication considerations in cardiac transplant patients

Risks of transplant include rejection, primary graft dysfunction, immunosuppression side effects such as infection, weight gain, hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis and cardiac allograft vasculopathy...

Antibiotic use in the emergency department for acute sore throat

Descriptive statistics were used to describe frequency of clinical score documentation, symptom documentation and antibiotic prescription rates. The initial plan to ascertain non-inferiority...