Prominent pharmacist, Raj Aggarwal, scooped one of the top prizes at the Institute of Directors Wales Awards – the Director’s Award. Entrepreneur Raj Aggarwal OBE is the chairman of the Aggarwal Group of companies that owns a chain of pharmacies in Wales and also the UK’s leading online beauty retailer Escentual.com. After an outstanding year [...]

The Clinical Pharmacy Congress (CPC) is taking place on 6th-to-7th June 2019 at ExCeL London. The CPC offers 16 different training platforms, ranging from traditional seminars to more intimate workshops where you can learn essential hands-on skills. CLICK HERE and enter the code: CPCMC19 to register for the conference. Your CPC pass will give you [...]

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the Université Libre de Bruxelles have used cutting-edge technology to show for the first time how embryonic stem cells diversify to generate the progenitor cells required for the development of the heart. The researchers hope that this new understanding will pave the way for future therapeutic opportunities for [...]

Researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) School of Medicine have identified a potential treatment target for patients with a common type of heart failure. In a study published in a recent issue of the journal, Science Translational Medicine, the researchers tested the effect of an investigational drug called givinostat in treating diastolic dysfunction, which [...]

A new study from the University of Sheffield has shown that a new blood test could provide a clue as to why some patients are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease risk after suffering a heart attack. The research may help scientists to identify new targets for reducing the risk and eventually lead to more [...]

New research has shed light on the reasons driving doctors out of general practice, following earlier findings that around two out of every five GPs in the South West are planning to leave direct patient care in the next five years. The research, led by Professor John Campbell of the University of Exeter Medical School, [...]

Two patterns of antecedent or ‘prodromal’ psychiatric symptoms may help to identify young persons at increased risk of developing bipolar disorder (BD), according to a new analysis in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer. Early signs of BD can fall into a relatively characteristic ‘homotypic’ pattern, consisting mainly of [...]

According to the World Health Organisation, more than 300 million people worldwide are affected by a major depressive disorder. Unfortunately, the antidepressants commonly used to treat them only work for 50 per cent of the population. A recent paper published in the journal, Molecular Psychiatry, explores how a protein named CK2 could be playing a [...]

Macrophage cells routinely remove dead or dying cells to maintain the body homeostasis. Such removal becomes crucial after serious injury, especially the repair of dead heart muscle after a heart attack. University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have preliminary data, with cultured cells or diabetic hearts, that diabetes impairs this removal of dead heart-muscle cells. [...]

Inflammation processes are responsible for the failure of insulin production in diabetes patients. The patients’ own immune systems can contribute to treatment of this disease: researchers at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel have found a feedback mechanism that could help maintain insulin production in overweight sufferers, as they report in the journal, [...]