Travel Clinic

Travel medicine has evolved out of a need to keep the traveler safe and healthy without destroying the joy of travelling.  Health professionals including pharmacists, GP’s and nurses are well placed to ensure that the traveler is well informed about the health risks...

The Role of the Pharmacist  

Again in Australia where the Federal Minister for Health has publicly stated she would like to see the skills and training of pharmacists utilised beyond the current usage levels.  The argument here being that by expanding the role of the pharmacist beyond traditional...

Homeopathy vs Placebo?

Greetings and welcome back; must I say I am happy to be aback on the PCL blog rotation. Some recently published pharmacy related news from Australia shows a set of research conducted by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has concluded there is...

Why so Angry all the Time?

Is it me or are we getting angrier? Actually thinking about it, it’s probably more accurate to say more irritable and less able to control that irritation. Crime figures and other related statistics seem to show that we are becoming a less aggressive society...

Warm and Fuzzy

It’s Red Nose Day and today is a day to be genuinely proud to be British. Last year’s Sport Relief raised £71.8m, that’s almost exactly £1 for every man, woman and child in the country, pretty amazing considering we are just emerging from one of the deepest and...