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Pharmacy/Drugs

The Pharmacy & Drugs category covers the safe, effective and evidence-based use of medications and therapies. It explores how medicines work, current prescribing practices, regulatory developments and issues affecting access, safety and innovation. From insights on drug interactions and adherence to analysis of emerging treatments, this category supports informed decision-making for clinicians, pharmacists and healthcare consumers alike.

Phage therapy to fight bacteria

Phage therapy to fight bacteria: New research from the University of Exeter has moved a step closer to harnessing viruses to fight bacterial infection, reducing the...
Phage therapy to fight bacteria

COVID-19 nasal spray heads to clinical trial

An at-home nasal spray treatment for COVID-19 will be put to the test by Melbourne biomedical researchers, as the University of Melbourne and Monash University...
COVID-19 nasal spray heads to clinical trial

Cannabis in medicine

Cannabis in medicine: enormous therapeutic potential but reliable studies still lacking: For more than twenty years now, international research into the endocannabinoid system in the...
Cannabis in medicine

Reducing HIV risk for women

The first long-acting option to protect women from HIV, proven to reduce women's HIV risk, has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization...
Reducing HIV risk for women

End Inequalities, End AIDS, End Pandemics

This World AIDS Day: End Inequalities, End AIDS, End Pandemics: “As if HIV itself were not enough, COVID-19 has brought more fear and insecurities to the...
End Inequalities, End AIDS, End Pandemics

£1.2m project to improve drug delivery

Queen's University Belfast are leading a £1.2m project to improve drug delivery for a range of illnesses. The grant, awarded by the Engineering and Physical...
£1.2m project to improve drug delivery

New DIY artificial pancreas guidance

Diabetes UK responds to new DIY artificial pancreas guidance published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on Sunday (14 November) about guidance for people with type...
New DIY artificial pancreas guidance

WHO: Barriers to insulin 100 years on

New WHO report maps barriers to insulin availability and suggests actions to promote universal access: 100 years after its discovery, insulin still out of reach for...
WHO: Barriers to insulin 100 years on