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EAHP 2012 Report – Winners of the Best Poster Award

Written by Lorraine Carolan | 3 Aug 2012

by Zara Qadir – Every year, the EAHP holds a best poster competition to encourage hospital pharmacists from all over Europe and beyond, to share best practices and… read more.

Aspirin raises bleeding risk marginally among patients with diabetes

Written by Bruce Sylvester | 31 Jul 2012

by Bruce Sylvester – taken from The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Researchers in a large, retrospective study report that daily use of low-dose aspirin is… read more.

Combination of obesity and low Vitamin D could increase risk of diabetes

Written by Bruce Sylvester | 31 Jul 2012

by Bruce Sylvester – The combination of obesity and low vitamin D deficiency appears to cause a greater risk of insulin resistance than either factor alone, researchers reported… read more.

Child diabetes rates eclipse US

Written by Gary Finnegan | 31 Jul 2012

by Gary Finnegan – World Health Matters (China) – Child diabetes levels in China are higher than those in the US, according to a startling new study based… read more.

ILTS 2012 Report – Regulatory T-cell injection holds promise for inducing tolerance

Written by Lorraine Carolan | 28 Jun 2012

by Thomas R. Collins – Injection of regulatory T cells could prove to be a powerful method of inducing tolerance among liver transplantation patients,

ILTS 2012 Report – Pre-procurement liver biopsy over-worthwhile in certain cases

Written by Lorraine Carolan | 28 Jun 2012

by Thomas R. Collins – Doing a biopsy on a liver before the organ is procured for transplantation is helpful only when done for certain potential organ donors,

How the donors have changed in the last ten years

Written by Lorraine Carolan | 28 Jun 2012

Dr Irene Scalera, Fellow at the Liver Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, describes the ever-changing donor landscape and attempts to improve liver donor shortage.

Greater hearing loss with age among women with diabetes

Written by Bruce Sylvester | 14 Jun 2012

by Bruce Sylvester – Diabetes adds to hearing loss with age among women, if it is not well controlled with medication,

Youth with Type 2 Diabetes get better results with two-drug treatment

Written by Bruce Sylvester | 14 Jun 2012

by Bruce Sylvester – Combination metformin and rosiglitazone is more effective than metformin monotherapy in youth with recent-onset type 2 diabetes,

Green light for new medicines

Written by Gary Finnegan | 14 Jun 2012

Emerging uses of EMA Approved Drugs – by Gary Finnegan – Several new medicines have been approved by the European Medicines Agency after recent meetings of its Committee… read more.

US health care: doing less with more

Written by Gary Finnegan | 14 Jun 2012

World Health Matters (U.S.A.) – by Gary Finnegan – The United States is paying far more for health services than 12 comparable industrialised nations but the quality of… read more.