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The Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland has issued a reminder to all registered pharmacists of their legal and professional obligations when trading medicines for human use, and the penalties that can ar ...

The British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers welcomes and supports the actions agreed at the Ministerial Summit this week. A package of measures to ensure that NHS patients can get the medicines they need was agreed at ...

Research published by the General Medical Council indicates that nearly one in ten hospital prescriptions contains an error.

Almost 4,500 Irish people were living with HIV infection at the end of 2006, the increased availability and utilisation of newer medicines has helped to reduce the death rate from AIDS substantially in recent years.

Baxter International Inc has announced that it completed production of its first commercial batches of CELVAPAN A/H1N1 pandemic vaccine in late July and is discussing plans for distribution with national health authorities, sub ...

Roche will join forces with Novo Nordisk and the World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) in Novo Nordisk's five-year program called "Changing Diabetes in Children".

GSK have launched alli® (orlistat 60 mg) in pharmacies across Europe. GSK has received a non-prescription licence for alli (orlistat 60mg); the first time the European Commission has approved a non-prescription product for weig ...

More than 2000 children die every day as a result of unintentional or accidental injuries. Every year tens of millions more worldwide are taken to hospitals with injuries that often leave them with lifelong disabilities, accord ...

Since its inception in 1912 the traditional role of FIP has always been to represent and serve pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists. It is imperative that the Federation be seen and understood as a body that encompasses ph ...

Generics manufacturers have prospered in Central and Eastern European markets of late, but the regulatory landscape is changing. Companies must take action if they are to surmount the competition. Raymond De Vré, Simon G ...

China's pharmaceutical market is growing by upward of 20 percent a year, but global drug companies still must capture its full potential. Franck Le Deu, Rajesh Parekh, and Claudia Süssmuth-Dyckerhoff of McKinsey report. Fo ...

The recent publication of the Community Pharmacy Market research report in the UK by the Department of Health's Medicines Pharmacy and Industry Group had some interesting findings about the public's perception of, and attachme ...