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Impact of antibiotic ADRs on patients revealed

“Antibiotic side-effects can significantly disrupt patients’ lives”, say the authors of a new study

26 Jan 2026

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Antibiotics in under-2s predict higher childhood BMI

Antibiotic-treated children were 20 per cent more likely than controls to be obese at 12 years of age.

22 May 2025

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Pharmacies receive inappropriate antibiotic requests ‘at least once a day’

Public swapping unused antibiotics on Facebook, finds new NPA survey

06 May 2025

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Antibiotic stewardship in community pharmacy

How to support antimicrobial stewardship in community pharmacy.

01 May 2025

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Bacteria resistant to one of the newest antibiotics on NHS, study reveals

Analysing data from 2016 to 2020, researchers found 6.3 per cent of bacteria showed resistance to ceftazidime/avibactam.

29 Apr 2025

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Making an appropriate recommendation for sore throat

Understand what causes sore throat and how Chloralieve works to help soothe it

14 Nov 2024

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Effectively managing sore throats

This module will help you to understand and educate customers about the risks of antibiotic resistance, and recommend products to help them effectively manage their sore throat symptoms

11 Aug 2024

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Antibiotics may increase fibromyalgia risk

Antibiotics seem to increase the risk of fibromyalgia up to four-fold, according to recent primary care data.

08 Jul 2024

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Pharmacy First: Practising good antimicrobial stewardship

There is recognition that community pharmacy teams have a key role to play in antimicrobial stewardship. Pharmacy First and similar schemes are intended to enable more completed episodes of care in pharmacies for specific common conditions, some of which will involve treatment decisions about antibiotics.

06 Feb 2024

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Clinical briefing: Antimicrobial resistance

While it’s good news that 62 potential antibiotics are being assessed in clinical studies, experts say this is still nowhere near what is needed given the seriousness of the antimicrobial resistance crisis. PM clinical editor, Mark Greener reports

13 Sep 2023

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Pharmacy Magazine Podcast – Talking Pharmacy Special, May 5

Rob Darracott travels to Lublin, Poland to see how the Medicines to Ukraine initiative prompted a practical focus on infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship, in a unique collaboration between the PDA and the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

05 May 2023

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Antibiotics increase risk of IBD

Antibiotics increase inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) risk, according to researchers who used Danish data to capture 36,017 new cases of ulcerative colitis (UC) and 16,881 new cases of Crohn’s disease (CD).

13 Feb 2023

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Treating coughs

Discover how pharmacy teams can support patients suffering from coughs with this learning module.

26 Jan 2022

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Antimicrobial stewardship

This module will consider the role of community pharmacy teams in tackling antimicrobial resistance

26 Nov 2018

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Antimicrobial stewardship

This CPD module considers the role of the community pharmacy team in tackling antibiotic resistance

17 Jun 2016

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