Issue : The Pharmaceutical Journal, online
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Purified CBD reduces seizures in rare form of childhood epilepsy by almost 50%, study finds
Highly purified cannabidiol at a dose of 10mg/kg/day can reduce convulsive seizures in children with Dravet syndrome by almost 50%.
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Children and parents overestimate correct use of asthma inhalers by youngsters, study finds
Nearly all children with asthma think they are using their asthma inhaler medication correctly when they are not, making it difficult to keep the condition under control, a study has shown.
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Pharmacist-led oral health intervention scheme to be rolled out after successful pilot
A pilot programme in which pharmacists offer oral health advice to patients while they wait for prescriptions is due to be rolled out across the north east of England.
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Long-lasting buprenorphine implant recommended by EMA committee
A long-lasting implant has been recommended for marketing authorisation as a substitution treatment for opioid dependence by the European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee.
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MHRA issues drug alert for prednisolone tablets after dosage mislabelling in Braille
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has issued a warning not to supply prednisolone from five batches of 5mg tablets to patients with sight problems following a Braille misprint on the packaging.
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Voting opens for the RPS National Pharmacy Board elections 2019
Voting for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) English, Scottish and Welsh Pharmacy Board elections 2019 is now open.
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Government cap on branded medicine prices may be unsustainable, warns ABPI
An ongoing cap on the price of branded medicines to the NHS “may not be sustainable” in the long term, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has said.
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Appointment availability is behind huge number of missed measles vaccinations, PHE expert says
A senior epidemiologist at Public Health England has said that concerns about vaccinations are unlikely to be behind figures from international children’s charity UNICEF, which show that half a million children in the UK have not received their first vaccination against measles.
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Recognise care home pharmacy as a specialism, says RPS Scotland
Pharmaceutical care in care homes should be recognised as a specialist area and resourced accordingly, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s director for Scotland, Alex MacKinnon has said.
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USB memory sticks could help reduce medicine errors after hospital discharge
Giving patients a USB device containing electronic medicine records at hospital discharge could help prevent medicine errors as they move between hospital and the community, a study published in the British Journal of General Practice has found.
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