NICE publishes new guidance on chronic pain management
Guidelines recommend exercise programmes and psychological therapies rather than commonly used drugs
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Tag: Royal College of GPs
Joint letter implores government to allow pharmacists to alter prescriptions
Pharmacists, GPs and patients join arms to call for law change
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RCGP responds to primary care network roll-out
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs believes the newly-launched primary care networks have “undeniable benefits.”
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6,000 non-smokers die of lung cancer each year
The statistic makes it a bigger killer than cervical cancer, lymphoma and ovarian cancer.
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RCGP welcomes roll out of NHS App
NHS England has begun to roll out its NHS App to the public, in a move hailed by doctors’ leaders as “a significant and constructive step forward in using technology to support patients”.
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HRT tablets associated with higher risk of blood clots
New research suggests that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) tablets are associated with a higher risk of rare but serious blood clots.
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- Storm Therapeutics and AlidaBio launch collaboration to advance RNA‑targeting cancer therapies
- Excellence adventure
- MHRA approves Nucala for eosinophilic COPD in adults on triple therapy
- Bial launches new sublingual Parkinson’s treatment in UK
- Acesion Pharma launches phase 2 trial of AP31969 in atrial fibrillation
