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Every little bit helps
3 Feb 12 | 10.49 | England Scotland Wales
What do the new medicine service, the chronic medication service and discharge medication reviews have in common? Bit of a silly question, you may think
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Linezolid trumps vancomycin for MRSA pneumonia
2 Feb 12 | 18.25 | International
Linezolid achieves higher rates of clinical cure than vancomycin when used for the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia caused by meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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Guidance issued to help hospitals engage with community sector
2 Feb 12 | 18.17 | England
Hospital pharmacists wishing to refer patients for community pharmacy services can make use of a new, standardised referral form developed by NHS Employers
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Dual therapy with trastuzumab and lapatinib shows promise for patients with breast cancer
2 Feb 12 | 18.03 | International
Dual treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer with lapatinib plus trastuzumab improves pathological complete response (pCR) compared with monotherapy with either drug
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PJ letters (4 February 2012) (RPS members only)
2 Feb 12 | 17.03 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
The letters in the attached PDF have been published in the 4 February 2012 issue of The Pharmaceutical Journal
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Managing epilepsy: what pharmacists need to know
1 Feb 12 | 16.05 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Publication of new clinical evidence has prompted NICE to update its clinical guideline on managing the epilepsies
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Hospitals accused of “serious failings” in medicines storage
30 Jan 12 | 17.12 | England
“Serious failings” in the security of medicines in hospitals across England have been uncovered by a Sky News investigation
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Make doctors aware of their prescribing errors
30 Jan 12 | 11.31 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Medication incident reporting saves lives, but it is also critical that doctors are told about prescribing errors so they can learn from them
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More multiples take over hospital outpatient dispensing
27 Jan 12 | 14.46 | England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Large multiples are increasingly providing outpatient dispensary services to NHS hospitals, in what is becoming a growing market for...
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Should pharmacy join the mob?
26 Jan 12 | 16.49 | England
In the past couple of weeks the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing (both trade unions) have denounced the Health and Social Care Bill
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