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Rising scope of general anaesthesia drugs
Use of general anaesthesia drugs has rapidly increased, owing to a large number of people undergoing surgeries in the world. Moreover, an increase in the geriatric population around the world
10-11 June 2022, 7th LSORA Ultrasound in Pain Medicine Workshop; London, UK
The 7th LSORA (London Society of Regional Anaesthesia) Ultrasound in Chronic Pain Medicine Workshop will take place at the Hilton London Tower Bridge Hotel on 10-11 June 2022. Watch this
Cavendish Medical Column – New NHS pension contributions are to go ahead
Dr Benjamin Holdsworth on the revised rates you need to know NHS doctors will pay revised pension contribution rates following the government consultation which ended in January – but the
Exploring the therapeutic uses of ketamine
First manufactured more than 50 years ago, ketamine is a fast-acting dissociative anaesthetic often used in veterinary and emergency medicine. Ketamine also has a history of being an illicit party
Novel ‘Trojan horse’ drug delivery system uses protein-based microdroplets
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University have developed a novel method of delivering drugs into human cells using large biological molecules, by first encasing them in a protein-based microdroplet. This discovery
HSSH launches specialist pain clinic
The Harley Street Specialist Hospital (HSSH), the new consultant-led hospital in the heart of London’s Harley Street Medical Area, is to open a dedicated pain management clinic. The clinic has
Why compounding pharmacies have a critical role to play in the future of personalised medicine
Author Rizvan Faruk Batha MPharm, Superintendent Pharmacist and Director of Operations at Specialist Pharmacy, discusses how compounding pharmacies have a critical role to play in the future of personalised medicine,
Anaesthesia machines – Making surgeries and life pain-free
Before anaesthesia, sedating a patient was a very difficult and tedious task. The sedating agents like chloroform were dangerous and had long-term side effects. Anaesthesia made sedation easy but it
