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Microsampling: a patient-centred approach to therapeutic drug monitoring Having a blood sample taken, usually by a phlebotomist in a clinic, is an often unpleasant but necessary step in monitoring medical conditions and some medicines. However, Neil Spooner, bioanalyst and...

Our feature this week in the #PharmaceuticalJournal is on microsampling techniques. These could mean faster, less stressful blood tests for vulnerable patients, but introducing them into the NHS has proved challenging

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BMA conference considers proposal to scrap community pharmacy blood pressure checks The British Medical Association’s (BMA) conference of English local medical committees (LMCs) is due to vote on a motion that proposes scrapping community pharmacy blood pressure checks “with immediat...

At the BMA's annual LMC conference tomorrow, GPs will debate whether the community pharmacy blood pressure check service should be scrapped.

If the motion passes it will become policy for the BMA's GP committee
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NICE proposes adding cytisine to stop-smoking guideline Cytisinicline, a prescription-only medicine to support smoking cessation, could be added to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) stop-smoking guideline. NICE has opened a consu...

Lots of smoking cessation news at the moment. Last week, NHSE announced that varenicline is back on the market, and today in the #PharmaceuticalJournal:

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Weight loss drugs make up 'very small' proportion of illegal medicines trade in UK, says MHRA Weight loss drugs, such as semaglutide, make up a “very small part” of medicines being illegally trafficked into the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has said.…

MHRA's Andy Morley has said that #weightloss drugs make up a “very small part” of medicines being illegally trafficked into the UK. #PharmaceuticalJournal #PharmSky

My voyage to the Antarctic as a woman in STEMM It was 3am. Slam, shudder, heave. This repeated at ten second intervals the whole night and all of the next day. I was in the middle of the Weddell Sea on a small expedition ship en route to the…

Some breath-taking photos here from Sharon Pfleger, a pharmaceutical public health consultant with NHS Highland, capturing her voyage to the Antarctic #Antarctica #Photography #PharmaceuticalJournal

Everything you need to know about NICE's decisions on 'game-changing' Alzheimer's drugs Since August 2024, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published two draft guidance papers relating to new monoclonal antibody treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) –…

In August and October 2024, NICE decided against recommending two new Alzheimer’s drugs that were previously hailed as revolutionary for their effects on the disease. Here's what you need to know about the reasoning behind these decisions. #Alzheimers #PharmaceuticalJournal