To coincide with World Bedwetting Day, the World Bedwetting Day Steering Committee (WBD-SC) has launched simplified practical guidelines to help healthcare professionals (HCPs) understand how to [...]
The 2017 Welsh Pharmacy Awards once again cast a spotlight on the sector’s key players and innovators, commending and celebrating their stories of success. The prestigious annual event is [...]
Better advice from pharmacy staff could help reduce hospital admissions and save lives, according to new research led by a De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) expert. Dr Peter Rivers, reader [...]
University of Manchester researchers, together with their UK and overseas collaborators, have found out that more than one third of 1,400 people with high blood pressure have not been taking [...]
Overprescribing of opioid medications for pain has contributed to a record-high number of drug-related deaths in recent years. A significant part of the issue, experts say, is the vast amount of [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration has expanded the approved use of subcutaneous Actemra (tocilizumab) to treat adults with giant cell arteritis. This new indication provides the first [...]
Following the global co-ordinated ransomware attack on thousands of private and public sector organisations across dozens of countries on Friday, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has [...]
UCLH’s Pharmacy Department and UCL School of Pharmacy have established a Centre for Medicines Optimisation Research and Education (CMORE). The collaboration will combine the two partners’ [...]
New research from the University at Buffalo (UB) Research Institute on Addictions that explored the potential side-effects of the stimulant drug Ritalin on those without ADHD showed changes in [...]
New research from the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with the Mario Negri Institute in Milan, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, has identified a protein that could [...]
