Medicines

The pharmacy regulator has advised that pharmacy teams carry out a “robust” assessment before supplying finasteride – a hair-loss drug with psychiatric and sexual health risks.

Novo Nordisk induced multiple “large” pharmacy chains to prescribe one of its weight loss drugs by providing “free of charge” sharps bins, needles and injection-pen travel wallets, the prescription medicine self-regulatory body has found.  

Healthcare professionals have been urged to stop supplying Oxbryta “immediately” after new data revealed “an unfavourable imbalance” of “fatal events” and “acute painful crises” in patients on the drug.  

The new government is “not in a position” to implement promised intercompany hub-and-spoke changes in January, the pharmacy negotiator has announced.

“Not following” the pharmacy regulator’s proposed new guidance on weight loss drugs and online pharmacy prescribing could result in fitness-to-practise (FtP) investigations into “all the pharmacy professionals involved”, it has warned.  

Amardip Virdi bought the “entire stock” of Ozempic at a pharmacy where he was working during a national shortage to supply it to private weight loss customers, the GPhC’s investigating committee has found.

Two Walgreens whistleblowers will receive multimillion-dollar rewards for alerting the US government to the pharmacy chain’s “false” prescription claims, the US justice department has revealed.

A Lloydspharmacy worker who stole Ozempic from the Widnes pharmacy she worked at has been given a suspended sentence of 29 weeks in prison.

Changes to original pack dispensing from the start of 2025 mean pharmacists in England will be able to supply medication different from the prescribed quantity within a 10% margin. Here’s how the sector reacted…

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