Archive 02/03/2012 - 09/03/2012

News and Views

Advanced melanoma drug vemurafenib launched - (09/03/2012)

Avoid waste, save money — recycling matters in hospital pharmacy practice - (07/03/2012)

Boots to respond to union request - (09/03/2012)

Breast and cervical cancer risk increased with contraceptive use - (08/03/2012)

Central register of patients with rare diseases proposed - (06/03/2012)

Clinical pharmacokinetics, 5th edition (book review) - (06/03/2012)

Counselling on the use of capecitabine - (07/03/2012)

DoH rebuked for shortages - (07/03/2012)

Emperors of dreams: drugs in the nineteenth century (book review) - (06/03/2012)

Enquiries jump for income protection - (09/03/2012)

Epigenetics revolution: how modern biology is rewriting our understanding of genetics, disease and inheritance (book review) - (06/03/2012)

Fitness-to-practise hearings move to Birmingham for Olympics - (05/03/2012)

Hope for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer’s - (08/03/2012)

Hospital pharmacists play key role in drive to cut VTE - (08/03/2012)

Hospital standards one step closer - (09/03/2012)

Improve medicine-taking in care homes, says Care Quality Commission - (08/03/2012)

Latest BNF set for Olympics - (09/03/2012)

Latest figures highlight "frustrating" pace of EPS roll out - (05/03/2012)

Medicine disaster in Pakistan points to enhanced safety role for pharmacists - (06/03/2012)

NICE producing evidence summaries to inform off-label prescribing - (05/03/2012)

NMS payment - (07/03/2012)

Oestrogen-only HRT shown to cut breast cancer risk - (07/03/2012)

Ovarian cancer detection guide launched by Society - (06/03/2012)

Parents’ ignorance about paracetamol puts children at risk - (09/03/2012)

Pharmacists need clear role in care homes - (08/03/2012)

Potential problems with administration of new antipsychotic may limit its use - (06/03/2012)

Risk-benefits balance tricky for antidepressants during pregnancy - (06/03/2012)

Rural pharmacy needs more champions but issues are on every body’s agenda - (07/03/2012)

Welsh minor ailments service launched - (07/03/2012)

What are your views on assisted dying? - (07/03/2012)

What you should be looking out for when recommending NRT products - (06/03/2012)

Practice advice

Medicines that optometrists can order - (06/03/2012)

Prescribing in mental illness: will short-term gains lead to long-term costs? - (06/03/2012)

Blog post

An Unfinished Pharmacy Fairytale - (09/03/2012)

Another pharmacist linked to peppers - (07/03/2012)

Apostr’abuse - (07/03/2012)

Badvertising - (07/03/2012)

Hospital work experience: The aseptics unit - (09/03/2012)

Is Pharmacy a dying profession? - (08/03/2012)

Is the NHS fair to refuse obese patients treatment? - (08/03/2012)

MeJa chat in the meeja - (07/03/2012)

Misused Drug Misinformation - (06/03/2012)

One Man and His Curry - (06/03/2012)

Studying Pharmacy in the USA - (06/03/2012)