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- CPD: Understanding chronic wound management
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A House of Commons Health Committee has called for dispensing errors to be decriminalised
- Antivirals no longer being used to prevent spread of swine flu
- AstraZeneca gets green light for gefitinib and prepares to submit fixed payment scheme to NICE
- New evidence supports statin use in primary prevention
- Pharmacists advised to contact PCOs to help them plan for flu
- Healthy-living template on horizon
- Roche decides not to rejoin the ABPI, but will abide by its code
Health Committee calls for pharmacists’ dispensing errors to be decriminalised
3 Jul 09 | 16.25 | Post a comment
The influential House of Commons Health Committee has called for dispensing errors made by pharmacists to be decriminalised following its inquiry into patient safety
Updated asthma guideline clarifies emergency oxygen use and reinforces importance of action plans
3 Jul 09 | 16.13 | Post a comment
Acute asthma patients who are receiving oxygen therapy should be maintained at a peripheral oxygen saturation of 94–98 per cent, according to an updated guideline on the management of asthma, published by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network and the British Thoracic Society
Early use of enalapril or losartan slows progression of diabetic retinopathy but not nephropathy
3 Jul 09 | 16.04 | Post a comment
Early use of enalapril or losartan slows the progression of retinopathy in patients with type 1 diabetes but does not slow the development of nephropathy, according to new research
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