Oct 1, 2018
Researchers from Great Britain have demonstrated that the presence of a clinical pharmacist based in 16 urban GP practices (total of 69 GPs ) had definitive benefits. Pharmacists dealt with special requests (for acute prescriptions created and issued by a GP without...
Sep 26, 2018
In a recent publication in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Association, researchers have examined the possibility of an association between chronic antidepressant use and the development of dementia. Community‐dwelling older adults (> 64 years of age)...
Sep 25, 2018
Building upon our understanding of the risks associated with H Pylori colonisation: Australian researchers have recently published a study in the Medical Journal of Australia that addressed the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding amongst people taking low dose...
Sep 25, 2018
Further attention focused upon cannabis-derived products as a possible strategy for pain management, published in a recent edition of JAMA Psychiatry. Researchers conducted a systematic review addressing the relationship between cannabinoid drug administration and...
Sep 21, 2018
One of the most dreaded complications associated with metformin treatment is lactic acidosis, and this may serve to decrease the inclination of prescribers to initiate this useful drug for people with type II diabetes. A recently published study compared the...
Sep 21, 2018
A very unsettling news piece from the USA, suggesting that recruitment of people from different racial backgrounds may not be equal (read the news piece here). A related but different issue is the outsourcing of clinical trials to settings in developing countries...
