Womens health

The pharmacy negotiator has warned that one ADHD drug is in short supply, while some period delay and opioid dependency drugs will remain “out of stock” into the autumn.  

Tomorrow will see three hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs removed from the pre-payment certificate (PPC) list, while 39 batches of an ADHD drug have been recalled.  

Elderly patients will be eligible to receive the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine from September 1 in some community pharmacies, the government has announced.

My symptoms landed me in hospital. I was shaking uncontrollably on the floor shivering cold and blacking out. I couldn’t put any food in my mouth or even sip water because I was so nauseous for the first three days.  

The Conservative Party has said it will expand the Pharmacy First service to include two additional conditions if it wins the upcoming general election.

Drug manufacturer Maxwellia has positioned itself as a “switching machine”, focussing on the reclassification of medicines to make them available without a prescription, it has told C+D.

 The introduction of Evana and Ultravana in pharmacies widens access to menstrual health medicines

A bill proposing “safe access zones” around places providing abortions has been backed by Scottish MSPs though its first stage and could be expanded to include pharmacies, the Scottish government has revealed.  

The CMA has announced the launch of a merger inquiry into manufacturer Viatris’s sale of “certain rights” to two of its HRT drugs to Theramex.

Oral emergency contraception should be a general sales list (GSL) medicine, a prominent sexual and reproductive health coalition has demanded.