A team from the School of Pharmacy, at Cardiff University, along with Beacon Digital and Invatech Health, has won the 2016 Health Service Journal Award for Improving Care with Technology.
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Dementia-preventing drugs similar to statins may be the long-term solution to Alzheimer’s, a leading expert has suggested. Just as statins reduce cholesterol levels in the blood, they would prevent the
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An immunotherapy drug hailed as a potential game changer in the treatment of Alzheimer’s has missed its targets in a large-scale clinical trial. The antibody treatment, solanezumab, failed to achieve
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The way drugs are approved for NHS use is leaving some patients begging for medicines, a new report suggests. The way medicines are assessed can be cruel and leads to
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NHS England will “formally consider” whether to fund PrEP, a “game changer” service in the fight against HIV/Aids, after losing a “who pays” legal battle in the Court of Appeal.
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Allowing unregistered nursing associates to give drugs to patients risks safety and is “ridiculous”, the country’s most senior nurse has said. Janet Davies, chief executive of the Royal College of
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A drug treatment that targets the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF) has been shown to slow irreversible lung damage by more than 40%. The drug, marketed as Orkambi, was
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Too many care homes are still using a “chemical cosh” to quieten dementia patients despite a Government-ordered review of their use, research suggests. The study from five universities found no
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Rationing is rife across the NHS, with patients suffering cutbacks to treatment and expensive drugs, a major survey of doctors has found. The research, for the Press Association and ITV,
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Statins are safe and effective but their potential side-effects have been exaggerated by unreliable studies, according to a major medical review. The cholesterol-reducing tablets, the most prescribed drugs in the
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