Measles vaccinations should be compulsory for children before they start school to help prevent the disease becoming endemic in the UK within 30 years, researchers have suggested.


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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Scottish Pharmacy Board held their second meeting of 2019 at the Society’s Edinburgh offices on 24 April 2019.


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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society English Pharmacy Board held their spring meeting at the Society’s London offices on 11 April 2019.


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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Welsh Pharmacy Board gathered for their second meeting of the year at Stradey Park Hotel, Llanelli, on 4 April 2019.


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The Co-operative Group is to trial what it says is the first click-and-collect ‘Amazon-style’ locker service for medicine prescriptions in the UK.


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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has launched a safety review of alemtuzumab following reports of two deaths and several other cases of people experiencing life-threatening reactions shortly after taking the medicine.


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The Department of Health and Social Care has written to pharmaceutical companies asking them to keep their six-week stockpiles of medicines “in place but on hold” until further notice.


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Researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imaging to show how cannabidiol counteracts some of the harmful effects of cannabis on the brain.


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The Department of Health and Social Care has put forward plans to reduce its funding to Genomics England by £40m in 2019/2020 as the body receives a new funding model to match its latest target to sequence five million genomes in five years.


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The NHS has confirmed that three prescriptions for medical cannabis were dispensed for use in primary care in January and February 2019.


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Half of hospital trusts in England are expected to be able to refer newly discharged patients to community pharmacy for help with taking their medicines by 2020.


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Deaths from opioid overdose are “rising sharply” in England and Wales as part of a continuing global crisis, according to an analysis by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.


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Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are unlikely to prevent Alzheimer’s disease in people at risk of developing the condition, study authors have concluded.


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Nearly 4,000 prescription charge exemptions have been verified through the first stage of NHS Digital’s real-time exemption checking pilot scheme.


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Thyroid hormones should not be prescribed to adults with sub-clinical hypothyroidism and clinicians should instead monitor the progression or resolution of the thyroid dysfunction in these patients, experts have advised.


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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has welcomed moves to highlight the potential lethal risks of the fertiliser 2,4 dinitrophenol that is used in some diet pills, but says they do not go far enough and reiterated its call for it to be banned.


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Business confidence among community pharmacists in England has risen for the second year in a row, according to the results of the annual Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking Healthcare Confidence Index.


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Over 60% of patients treated for a urinary tract infection lack evidence of the infection, a study carried out in a Birmingham emergency department has found.


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The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has warned against the government’s suggestion that a centralised system is the “desired future approach” to procuring specials.


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Karen Baxter has been confirmed as managing director of The Pharmaceutical Press. 


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