Insect-borne diseases, such as Dengue fever and Chikungunya, are a significant public health concern worldwide, especially in tropical and subtropical regions. These diseases are transmitted by mosquitoes and can cause severe illness, including fever, joint pain, and in some cases, death. To combat these diseases, researchers are continually developing new vaccines to protect against them. […]
If you take blood or give injections it’s very likely that at some point you will have performed (or are going to perform) these sharps-based procedures on someone who is living with HIV. And you will likely have a set of perceptions about that. Be prepared to see (and avoid) some discriminatory practice. Would YOU […]
Are you a community pharmacist who longs for a bit more clinical growth but don’t know how to make the move? So many of us think there is no chance we will be accepted as a clinical pharmacist in primary care – after all, we have been community pharmacists for many many years and often […]
Becoming a Travel Health Specialist Pharmacist can be an incredibly rewarding career. Travel Health is an emerging and rapidly developing field of medicine. As we have seen evident from Covid-19, new diseases can arise and outbreaks can occur which can change the face of travel. With travel now firmly back on the radar and more […]
We have been delivering high quality travel health training for a number of years to health professionals across the UK and beyond. As an organisation, we are always looking for ways to improve our content but also how we deliver our courses. With clinical professionals having busy schedules, we understand that taking out two days […]
Surely we can’t be talking about flu already. I know, it is only April and for some of you reading this, you will still be seeing patients poorly from this years flu season. The UK has had one of the latest flu seasons in decades with cases peaking in February & March. In a normal […]
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] With the recovery of international travel, one of the most common enquiries that we are getting at the moment is asking us if a pharmacy dispenser can administer travel vaccines. At first glance this may seem like quite a simple question, but actually when you explore it further […]
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] This post is all about Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension and has been selected from a lesson from our brand new Hypertension course. In this lesson we’ll be looking at cardiovascular disease, its effects on the population and the health service, and its relationship to hypertension. Cardiovascular Disease Cardiovascular […]
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