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Drugs

May 2024

  • Catriona Crombie

    Imagine getting life-saving drugs to sick people without relying on big pharma? We may have found a way

    Catriona Crombie
  • people with signs

    Louisiana moves to add abortion pills to list of controlled dangerous substances

  • Illustration of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria (white) on the colon epithelium. The antibiotic-resistant bacteria will go on to transfer its antibiotic resistance genes horizontally to the bacteria surrounding it.

    What is antimicrobial resistance and how big a problem is it?

  • HRT in patch form.

    Pills or patches, sprays or gels … everything you need to know about HRT

  • UK pharmacists: share your experience of drug shortages

  • A night out drinking should feel safe: here are a few simple steps you can take to help reduce risk

    Nicole Lee

  • Warning over asthma drug after 500 neuropsychiatric reactions reported in young children

April 2024

  • Ecstasy pills in a man's hand

    MDMA trials are showing it has promise as a psychiatric medicine

  • A nurse prepares to give Steve Young, one of the first patients in the trial, his first jab at UCLH in London

    ‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled

  • The shortages have made one patient feel he has ‘no choice’ but to stockpile medicine by taking less than the intended dose.

    ‘I had to do an 80-mile trip’: the stress caused by UK drug shortages

  • Medicine supply chain review<br>File photo dated 16/11/09 of a pharmacist stocks shelves at a chemist. The Government has been urged to carry out a review of the UK's "broken" medicine supply chain after new research found the impact of Brexit has worsened the issue in recent years. Issue date: Thursday April 18, 2024. PA Photo. Experts described shortages of the likes of antibiotics and medication for epilepsy as a "shocking development" that is putting pressure on patients, GPs and pharmacists. See PA story HEALTH Drugs. Photo credit should read: Julien Behal/PA Wire

    Tell us: have you been affected by drug shortages in the UK?

  • Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns

  • The Guardian view on the Cass report: rising numbers of gender distressed young people need help

  • Patients in England to be offered daily pill that can halve migraine frequency

  • Diabetes drug may slow progression of Parkinson’s, say researchers

March 2024

  • Hands of an older woman in a nubbly jumper holding a glass of water and two pills against a table with two jars of pills, a round pillbox and a dosette box with days of the week printed on its lids

    DrugGPT: new AI tool could help doctors prescribe medicine in England

    New tool may offer prescription ‘safety net’ and reduce the 237m medication errors made each year in England
  • David Crisafulli

    Queensland opposition leader casts doubt over future of state’s new pill testing regime

    David Crisafulli criticises pill testing trial in sign opposition may roll back harm minimisation polices if elected in October

    • A common condition
      Study: ‘gamechanger’ diabetes drugs cost up to 400 times more than needed

    • How the abortion pill case at the supreme court could undo the FDA

    • UK ministers knew of ‘significant’ synthetic opioids threat two years ago

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