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Drug Breakdown: Nabilone

Day 1: Identification of the psychoactive substance in cannabis (THC) in the 1960s led to analogue development to harness the therapeutic effects. #nabilone was produced in 1980s, but was not...

Updates

NHS England's October GP workforce and appointments data has shown that 40.3 million appointments were estimated to have been delivered by practices and Primary Care Networks in October 2024. Of...

Prescribing in menopause care

This article, published in the journal Women's Health, sought to evaluate the factors contributing to the apparent change in the perceptions of women and health professionals of the use of menopausal...

Opioid overdose and naloxone

“While naloxone is a prescription-only medicine (POM), exemptions have been developing over the years, owing to its potential to save lives” .

Christmas quiz!

Calculating dosage where the dose is expressed as mg/kg uses multiplication skills – this is similar to calculating the cooking time of turkey in minutes per kg. For example, a turkey requires a...

A–Z of prescribing for children

Pharmacogenomics looks at how a person's genetic make-up can affect how a body responds to medications and focuses on combining knowledge on pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and genetics. The genetics...

Medicines management activity of advanced practice dietitians and therapeutic radiographers

A rapid review, a streamlined approach to synthesising evidence (Khangura et al, 2012), was registered with Figshare (Peacock et al, 2021) and a narrative synthesis of evidence published between...

Christmas quiz! answers

Calculating dosage where the dose is expressed as mg/kg uses multiplication skills – this is similar to calculating the cooking time of turkey in minutes per kg. For example, a turkey requires a...

What does the budget mean for the NHS?

On Wednesday 30 October, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered the new government's Autumn budget. It was a milestone in many ways, as this was the first budget from a Labour government since the...

Drug Breakdown: ACAMPROSATE

In addition to the tweets, read the BNF monograph on acamprosate and the related treatment summaries for alcohol dependency. Another useful source is the Summary of Product Characteristics for...

UPDATES

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved eplontersen (Wainzua) to treat adults with polyneuropathy associated with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv)....

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