Practice pharmacy services during the covid pandemic and in the future
Practice pharmacists were able to adjust and simplify drug treatment to ensure continued effective treatment during the covid pandemic – and could do more of this type of […]
Practice pharmacists were able to adjust and simplify drug treatment to ensure continued effective treatment during the covid pandemic – and could do more of this type of […]
Two programmes comprising training materials and back-up resources, have been essential for the development of effective practice pharmacy services that deliver meaningful benefits in primary care, according to […]
Pro-active case-finding to optimise treatment of long-term conditions is one the tasks undertaken by pharmacists working in GP practices. Shailen Rao, whose company Soar Beyond provides training and support services […]
Testing of hospital laboratory staff for antibodies to covid-19 revealed some interesting findings and led to questions about herd immunity. At the beginning of the covid pandemic Mr […]
People often ask if there a case for using both the molecular test and the antigen test. International Medical Information (IMI) interviewed two pathology experts – Mr Michael […]
Understanding what the different tests mean and how they can be used most appropriately underpins the test and trace process. International Medical Information (IMI) interviewed two pathology experts […]
A largescale global trial designed to test the theory that the widely-used BCG vaccine could help protect against COVID-19 will soon recruit healthcare staff and care home workers […]
Indomethacin reduces the severity and duration of covid-19 symptoms and the need for hospital admissions There is mounting evidence to support the use of indomethacin to control covid-19 […]
As politicians grapple with the idea of a lockdown or a more stringent lockdown GPs have called for an end to the ‘one-track’ response – using covid deaths […]
As the number of signatures on the Great Barrington Declaration nears half a million, support for the focused protection that it advocates appears to be growing There are […]
Flu vaccination is safe, effective and is offered free of charge to thirty million people in the UK this year in the country’s largest flu-immunisation programme to date […]
During the pandemic the oncology pharmacy service at Velindre Cancer Centre demonstrated its ability to react rapidly to service demands and to patients’ needs, according to Rhiannon Walters-Davies, […]