Despite the increased awareness in society regarding mental illness, it remains a therapeutic area where more can be done for patients. In particular, schizophrenia remains …
Pharmacists, have you ever been completely baffled with a case or set of symptoms in practice? This is not as rare as you think. This …
Oral anticoagulants are a class of drugs that work to prevent the coagulation or clotting of blood. The main use of anticoagulants is to prevent …
Okay, this isn’t a tabloid paper, but this is just an example of the coverage that Lyme disease has been getting during the summer of …
In previous articles, we have seen how the burgeoning field of Pharmacogenomics promises to bring a new era of more effective personalised medicines. In this …
Cannabis is fast gaining recognition in the media for its beneficial effects in the treatment of otherwise intractable epilepsy(1). The United Kingdom government, consistent with …
In the last article we discussed the evidence to support the use of antidepressants and which ones seem to be the most useful. Following on …
Antidepressant prescribing is showing no signs of slowing down, increasing year on year. The total number of prescribed antidepressants increased by 4.6million between the years …
Despite the fact that schizophrenia is one of the most common psychotic disorders, its diagnosis is so complex that it requires specialist input from secondary …