The British Medical Association (BMA) has called for a national helpline to support patients with addiction problems as part of a new project to tackle prescription drug dependence.Professor David…
British Pharmacological Society Fellow Professor Jackie Hunter CBE has been recognised in the ’50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness 2016’ report. Dr Anna Zecharia, Head of Education, Training &…
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recently began providing open access to clinical data for new medicines for human use authorised in the European Union (EU).Professor David Webb, President of…
The British Pharmacological Society is pleased to announce the 2016 winners of the BSc Pharmacology Prize (nominated by their university department) and the winners of the Clinical Undergraduate…
The Accelerated Access Review (AAR) was commissioned by the government in November 2014. The final report was published on 24 October 2016. It makes recommendations to make it easier for NHS patients…
It is with great pleasure that the Society announces Dr James Dear, University of Edinburgh, as the winner of the Grahame-Smith Prize, which recognises outstanding contributions to research in…
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has published a new report on The Changing UK Drug Discovery Landscape. Professor David Webb, President of the British Pharmacological…
In a study of 110 women taking the breast cancer drug anastrozole, there were significant differences in patients’ blood levels of the drug that corresponded with variations in the ABCB1 gene.…
Researchers have found that a protein called SLC6A14 is overexpressed by several fold in pancreatic tumors taken from patients and in cancerous pancreatic cells lines compared with normal pancreatic…
Experts in how drugs work from the British Pharmacological Society have teamed up with Olympic Gold Medallist Tim Foster on a new animation about maintaining a healthy body without the use of illicit…
