Safety paramount to COVID-19 vaccine programme
Comment from Royal Pharmaceutical Society: safety of staff and patients paramount to the COVID-19 vaccine programme: Following the news that…
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Fiji’s vaccine program reduces childhood death and illness: study
Fiji’s national vaccine program against pneumonia, a serious lung condition, and rotavirus, a common disease which causes severe diarrhoea and…
New drug improves fertility in women with reproductive health problems
A drug that acts via the natural ‘kisspeptin’ hormone system in the body has the potential to treat reproductive health…
Arthritis drug effective in treating sickest COVID-19 patients
Critically ill patients with COVID-19 treated with an arthritis drug that reduces inflammation are significantly more likely to have improved…
Skin cancer treatment to help transplant patients
World-first skin cancer treatment aims to help transplant patients: A new medication which can be applied to the skin could…
Vary drug prices for different conditions
The NHS could improve patients’ access to new cancer treatments by paying different prices for drugs depending on the disease…
Looking through the door of meth labs
Looking through the door of meth labs: Methamphetamine ‘cooks’ in domestic labs are most likely to be male, Caucasian and…
Clearer picture on HRT & breast cancer
A new study, led by experts at the Universities of Nottingham and Oxford, provides a clearer and more detailed picture…
Imagine you are an Aluminum Atom
Imagine You Are An Aluminum Atom: Discussions With Mr. Aluminum: I have written a book on aluminium. It is my first…
Calls for medicinal cannabis for severe epilepsy
Families of children with severe epilepsy and charities are pleading with the UK government to act on its promises for…