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Understanding anticholinergic burden and its implications

Written by | 7 Apr 2025

29th EAHP Congress highlights Anticholinergic burden (AB) or anticholinergic load (AL) refers to the cumulative effect of taking multiple medications with anticholinergic actions, which can lead to adverse effects, […]

Irish prescribers’ views on hospital pharmacist prescribing

Written by | 5 Apr 2025

29th EAHP Congress highlights Prescribing by hospital pharmacists is now well-established in a number of countries and there is evidence that stakeholders take a positive view of this […]

Is digital remote monitoring suitable for long-term conditions? Clinical Pharmacy Congress North highlights

Written by | 6 Nov 2024

Marsha Showman and Reena Patel (Leeds Health and Care Partnership) presented a poster describing how utilisation of health services was improved when people with long term conditions, including […]

Three critical tasks for pharmacists – Clinical Pharmacy Congress North highlights

Written by | 5 Nov 2024

In his keynote lecture Richard Cattell, Deputy Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, asked pharmacists to do three things: Make their voices heard in the development of the NHS 10-year plan […]

Rehab Elhiny wins poster prize – ESCP Highlights

Written by | 29 Oct 2024

Rehab Elhiny (University College, Cork, Ireland and Minia University, Egypt) was awarded the best poster prize for her poster entitled ‘Goal attainment, medication adherence and guideline adherence in […]

Improving medication use – ESCP Day 3 Highlights

Written by | 29 Oct 2024

Therapeutic advances in lung cancer  Molecular testing before the start of treatment is good clinical practice (GCP) and confers considerable benefits in survival, according to Professor Joanna Chorostowska-Wynimko […]

Expanding clinical pharmacy services – ESCP Day 2 Highlights

Written by | 23 Oct 2024

“Drug wastage jeopardises sustainability” was one of the driving concepts behind the ROAD (Re-dispensing unused oral anticancer drugs) project, according to Dr Charlotte Bekker (Radboud University Medical Centre). […]

Launch of US pharmacy technician society

Written by | 18 Dec 2023

ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting – Highlights In November 2023 The Pharmacy Technician Society (TPTS) was launched under the wing of The American Society for Health System Pharmacists (ASHP). […]

ISC 2022: After a severe stroke, endovascular therapy may be crucial

Written by | 17 Feb 2022

Following a severe stroke caused by artery-blocking clots, patients who undergo endovascular therapy (mechanical clot removal) plus standard medical therapy have fewer physical limitations 90 days post-stroke compared […]

EASD 2021: Osteoporosis drug appears to lower diabetes risk

Written by | 5 Oct 2021

Treatment with alendronate, an osteoporosis drug, appears to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, researchers reported on Sept. 26, 2021 at the annual meeting of the […]

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