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John Fielding,
CEO
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Pharmacy Direct aims to be the preferred provider of medicines, medical information and managed care to our private and corporate customers.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Medicines management information sharing in development A single assessment tool for patient review that allows health care workers and social services to share the same patient information is being developed by the National Medicines Management Collaborative in north east Derbyshire.
Understanding medicines and the needs of different client groups – this module covers training and information on administering medicines for different client groups such as children, young people, the elderly and those needing mental health care.
The information resulting from each drug assessment is a package of data about the drug which is made available by the pharmaceutical company to health professionals with the agreement of the Medicines Control Agency.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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There is information about specific herbal medicines, side effects and interactions when used with other medicines, mistaken identity of herbal ingredients, and safety issues associated with poor quality.
It provides useful information about herbal medicines that may pose a risk to human health aimed at users, manufacturers, herbal practitioners, suppliers and retailers of herbal medicines.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The Genome Campus has played a pivotal role in the Human Genome Project and it is now time to move on to converting this basic information into knowledge that will underpin the further development of new medicines and therapies for decades to come.
Lead optimization compares the properties of various lead compounds and provides information to help pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies select the compound or compounds with the greatest potential to be developed into safe and effective medicines.
Pharmacogenetics is the use of the new science of genomics and genetic information in the study and use of clinical medicines.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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General advice about prescription medicines: Medicines are sometimes prescribed for conditions that are not mentioned in patient information leaflets.
MEDLINE - Information on how to access and retrieve published medical citations and abstracts using the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE service.
A study found that written information about medicines can help patients recognize problem side effects and then give that information to their doctor or pharmacist.
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