This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50465563 By Adrian Goldberg “You know when your washing machine first starts spinning and then it goes really fast to get hot – I feel like I’m on a superfast spin.” Michele Reynolds Cole, from Rochdale in Greater Manchester, is telling me what it’s like to live without Gabitril, the…
This article was taken from: By Internal document seen by the Guardian shows low supplies for heart, cancer and anti-epilepsy drugs The NHS is running short of dozens of lifesaving medicines including treatments for cancer, heart conditions and epilepsy, the Guardian has learned. An internal 24-page document circulated to some doctors last Friday from the medicine supply…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/11/drug-shortages-endangering-patients-lives-wasting-nhs-time By Zara Aziz I shouldn’t have to spend large chunks of my day tracking down certain medicines or researching alternatives As a GP, managing patients’ medicine requests has until now been a seamless process of writing prescriptions to send to nominated pharmacies to dispense. But drug shortages mean that…
This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47719269 By James GallagherHealth and science correspondent, BBC News Part of the drugs industry should be taken over to make new antibiotics, an influential economist has argued. Lord Jim O’Neill, who advised the government on antibiotic resistance, said he was shocked by pharmaceutical companies failing to tackle drug-resistant infections. He said…
This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/26/patients-not-told-doctors-big-pharma-conflicts-interest-new/ By Henry Bodkin Hospitals are failing to inform patients when doctors responsible for choosing their drugs have received thousands of pounds from pharmaceutical companies, a new study reveals. A survey in the British Medical Journal shows just six per cent of NHS trusts publish their register of gifts and hospitality online and…