The NPA is asking for the RPSGB retention fee to be held at the present level, given the financial pressures on pharmacy businesses, many of which pay retention fees for their staff.
Margaret Peycke, NPA External Relations Manager said
“The justification to charge RPSGB members more is unclear, especially as such a large increase in [...]

Latest research on proton therapy highlights medical physics meeting next week in Anaheim
Proton therapy which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer is a hot topic at this years American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting, which takes place from July 26 30 in Anaheim, CA. Ways to make [...]

A group of chemists from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) has developed a method to quantify the fragrance allergens found in baby bathwater. The researchers have analysed real samples and detected up to 15 allergen compounds in cosmetics and personal hygiene products.
A team of scientists from the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and [...]

Dr. Zsuzsanna Nagy of the University of Birmingham presented data from a clinical study, funded by Cytox Limited, demonstrating that a simple bloodbased biomarker discriminated between patients with Alzheimers disease (AD) and control subjects. The findings were statistically highly significant, and the test discriminated between the two groups with 80% sensitivity and 80% specificity. The [...]

Obamas Policy Could Make U.S.Africa Relations Flower
Although critics have said that President Obamas speech in Ghana “sounded a familiar refrain” echoing “the same message about good governance… from presidents Clinton and George W. Bush” and “[n]o new programs or initiatives” for the continent, “just because the message is [...]

Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. (SWISS BSLN) announces that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued the Final Appraisal Determination (FAD) recommending the use of Toctino® (alitretinoin) within its licensed indication, as a treatment option for adults with severe chronic hand eczema that has not responded to potent topical corticosteroids.
The FAD published today [...]

“Senators agreed Monday to give hightech biologic drugs 12 years of market protection before generic versions can compete,” according to The Associated Press.
The AP reports “The vote in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee was a victory for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries but a defeat for the Obama administration and AARP. The [...]

A new research study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine and led by noted mens health researcher Dr. Paul Turek has a powerful conclusion that men diagnosed with infertility suffer intense negative sexual, personal and social strains that might be considered typical for other medical illnesses, including cancer.
Traditionally viewed as a “silent disease” [...]

Condom use is associated with a reduced risk of contracting herpes simplex virus 2, according to a report based on pooled analysis of data from previous studies in the July 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV2) typically causes genital herpes, a chronic, [...]

NHS Employers has today released an Englandwide guide to help primary care trusts (PCTs) produce pharmaceutical needs assessments (PNAs). NHS Employers supports the Department of Health in its drive for more PCTs to develop and update their PNAs, which aim to help enhance the commissioning of quality pharmaceutical services, and this new guide will [...]