You & Your Health: Prescription changes over the years
With Andrew Watson of Goodmeasure Pharmacy, Rotherham If you’d have been given a prescription thirty years ago, chances are it would have been for antibiotics, pain killers, or an inhaler. But over the last ten years, the most commonly prescribed medicines have been those used to treat high cholesterol, blood...
You and Your Health: Is it ever safe to buy medicines online?
The internet has made everything easier to buy. And that includes medicines. Online pharmacies have sprung up in recent years offering to provide quick, easy and discreet delivery of prescription and over-the-counter medication. While that may seem ideal for the modern ‘e-patient’ who wants 24/7 convenience, medicines are not consumer...