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Stronger from within: Vitamins and minerals

The VMS category is thriving, as consumers try to do all they can to protect their health during the pandemic.

12 Feb 2021

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Generics: the year ahead

Brexit and Covid-19 have created multi-layered challenges for medicines availability, with new supply chain regulations adding to import complications.

09 Feb 2021

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NMS in decline; mixed picture on prescription numbers

Are patients failing to present at surgeries behind a fall in completions of NMS?

06 Feb 2021

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Open wider

With visits to dentists down thanks to coronavirus, customers have been turning to pharmacy to fill the gap

21 Jan 2021

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The weight is over

Covid-19 has focused attention on the danger of excess weight, so it could be time to review your approach to weight management

21 Jan 2021

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Look beyond NRT to help more smokers

Louise Ross of the New Nicotine Alliance says professionals should not close off new options for smokers

14 Jan 2021

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Long way to a smoke-free 2030

Options increasing but a long way to go to a smoke-free future

14 Jan 2021

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Easing congestion

A blocked nose, painful sinuses and earache: causes and latest treatment advice

14 Dec 2020

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The pharmacist will see you now

GP surgeries began referring into the CPCS on 1 November, but what happens next?

11 Dec 2020

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Getting ahead

A look at recent data on that most common of symptoms: a headache

 

11 Dec 2020

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Go with your gut

A healthy gut is important not just for digestive wellbeing, but overall health in general

07 Dec 2020

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Offsite flu jab centre delivers capacity for Preston pharmacy

Success for design and build pharmacy-run centre at local rugby club 

07 Dec 2020

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Vitamin D tops list of VMS searches

Awareness of the usefulness of vitamin D among the public is rising, according to Google data

06 Dec 2020

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Fight or flight

Stress and anxiety are closely linked to insomnia. Unsurprisingly, the events of 2020 have heightened demand for services and treatments to ease all three.

22 Oct 2020

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A winter like no other

Are you ready for the competing demands of flu, winter viruses and Covid? Take a look at how things are gearing up for the most challenging winter for years.

22 Oct 2020

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