How can pharmacists fight antibiotic resistance?
Antibiotic resistance occurs when medicines are no longer effective in treating bacterial infections. This is potentially catastrophic, as much of modern medicine would become impossible...
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.
Medical cannabis: snake oil or health solution?
Spend a bit of time browsing the internet for information about health conditions and you’ll eventually run across pages claiming that cannabis is the cure...
A drug you don’t want
I want to introduce you to a new drug. You may want to use it, indeed many people across the world do. It is from a...
Popping pills, doing drugs: the nurse’s drug round
Drugs to alleviate symptoms; drugs to prolong life; drugs to counteract side effects of other drugs. Doctors’ prescribing powers in the face of illness have...
More NHS homeopathy, not less
The debate about whether homeopathy should be available on the NHS invariably sees the opposing sides citing numerous research papers in support of their argument....
Breath tests for life
Heart transplant rejection Last year there were 145 heart transplant operations carried out in the UK, which is a life-saving treatment for people with acute...
The Story of Your Hangover – Paracetamol
The morning after the night before. Before you even open your eyes you can feel the familiar throbbing behind one eye that follows a night of...
‘Silencer molecules’ switch off cancer’s ability to spread around body
Scientists have revealed that a key molecule in breast and lung cancer cells can help switch off the cancers’ ability to spread around the body. The...
MenB – will Parliament cede to a million petitioners?
Meningitis B (MenB), a virulent bacterium, causes the majority of cases of bacterial meningitis in the UK and Europe as well as elsewhere in the...
Dark arts pushing heart drugs
Evidence-based medicine and ‘value for money’ are two of medicine’s Mum and apple pie principles. But like other principles they are all too readily discarded...
