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The recent death from motor neurone disease (MND) of former Scottish rugby international and British Lion Doddie Weir OBE (1970–2022) has renewed focus on this neurodegenerative condition.
Non-medical prescribing is increasingly being recognised as an essential healthcare practice, with at least 18 countries adopting NMP across Europe, the Americas and Australasia (Courtenay et al,...
When prescribing to breastfeeding women we need to be aware that some of the drug which she takes is likely to pass to the baby via breastmilk. The British National Formulary (BNF) is not always a...
Increased age may result in significant changes, such as the accumulation of harmful substances and the lack of essential vitamins and minerals in the body (Fusco et al, 2007; Rahal et al, 2014)....
Hello and happy New Year from the Journal of Prescribing Practice. As always, when writing a new year editorial, it's important to look to the year ahead and envision what we might encounter. While...
Following the announcement of serious shortage protocols (SSPs) on Thursday, December 15, five new SSPs have been issued..
Day 1: The discovery of the COX-2 channel in the early 1990s led to two new NSAIDs designed and licensed with COX-2 selective action. The new drug target implied therapeutic and adverse drug effect...
The batches shown in Table 1 of Targocid 200 mg powder for injection/infusion or oral solution are being recalled immediately by Sanofi UK. This is due to out of specification results for bacterial...
A new review, published in the BMJ Open (Kiely et al, 2022), found that there is no consistent evidence that social prescribing improves social support or physical function, or reduced the use of...
Day 1: #daptomycin was discovered in the late 1980s, when Streptomyces roseoporus bacteria was isolated from a Turkish soil sample. Adverse effects led to delays in clinical trials...
In 2021, the British Thoracic Society (BTS, 2022) carried out a national audit of the management of tobacco dependency in acute care trusts, following previous audits in 2019 and 2016. The audit...
George Winter discusses the role of serotonin when deciding how to treat depression and how new papers are now disputing the role in plays and whether antidepressants are even the correct treatment...
This review of the literature published in the Journal of Geriatric Oncology aimed to elucidate the scale of the issue in a population of older adult patients with cancer and to discuss the...
The Calgary-Cambridge model was chosen to assess this case study because it was the most structured, practical, patient-centred model and it allows a way to close the session when compared to the...
Prescribing data for antibiotics prescribed by NMPs in primary care and dispensed in the community was obtained from NHS Business Services Authority and the regulating bodies for the professions with...
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