Pharmacy/Drugs Category

Looking at latest innovations, drugs at trial stage and hospital and community pharmacies.

How much is polypharmacy a necessary evil?

Ageing, Australasia, Integrative
Yoga for Osteoporosis
The benefits of a yoga practice and Osteoporosis for an ageing population by Leah Nylander of West Coast Yoga, Australia. There is no getting around it, we are an ageing …
All Creatures, Australasia, Infection/Disease
Mosquito Stowaways
Tracking The Movement Of Mosquito Stowaways: Dengue mosquitoes and tiger mosquitoes pose a range of challenges to global health, but genomics is helping us to prevent these dangerous species from …
Coronavirus, COVID-19 Update
Large proportion of NHS workers may have …
A large proportion of UK healthcare workers may already have been infected with Covid-19, according to new research led by the University of East Anglia in collaboration with University College …
Ageing, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Update
BGS responds to reports of a withdrawal …
The British Geriatrics Society was alarmed to learn that there has been a U turn in Government policy regarding the provision of rehabilitation services for people affected by the COVID-19 …
Coronavirus, COVID-19 Update
Covid-19: Not all patients develop protective antibodies
A laboratory test that has now been developed by a study group from MedUni Vienna is able to determine whether COVID-19 patients develop protective antibodies after having the disease. The …