Plant-based vaccine for polio
"The fight against polio has been one of the great success stories of modern medicine with the disease already eliminated…
Drugs Review
Tresiba® demonstrated significantly lower rates of overall, nocturnal and severe hypoglycaemia vs insulin glargine U-100
New Orleans, US, 11 June 2016 – New findings from the two phase 3b SWITCH trials showed that treatment with…
Stem cell donation
The first treatment for all types of leukaemia is usually chemotherapy, a powerful drug treatment that kills the cancerous cells…
Antibiotics…helping hand or harmful?
Resistance to antibiotics Over my surgical career, I have seen a real change in the way we use antibiotics. Initially,…
Bio-identical hormone therapy
Bio-identical hormone therapy routinely includes key anti-aging hormones such as oestrogen, progesterone, testosterone and DHEA, which can be taken orally…
AMR and the importance of finding new ways to prevent and treat infections
Jim O’Neill, chair of the UK Government’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, has today called for vaccines and alternative approaches to…
How much is polypharmacy a necessary evil?
A few years ago, I and some GP colleagues – Tony Avery from Nottingham University, and Rupert Payne from Cambridge…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…