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We've got opportunities for Royal Pharmaceutical Society Members and Fellows to help guide and support us in our decision making through our Membership Committee and Panel of Fellows. There are now vacancies in both of these committees and you're invited to get involved. We encourage applications from black, Asian, and minority ethnic candidates and people of all abilities to ensure both committees are broadly representative of the profession. You don't need to have been qualified for a particular period of time to join the Membership Committee, or have a particular length of service as a Fellow to apply for the Panel. Applications received for the roles will be anonymised to help improve the impartiality of our assessment processes. Join our Membership Committee Members help to guide and support our membership by: Reviewing non-standard membership applications and existing memberships; Reviewing membership applications which may constitute special circumstances; Participat...

Enlarge this image Ed Buck appears in Los Angeles Superior Court on Sept. 19, 2019. A federal jury has convicted the wealthy political donor on charges he injected gay men with methamphetamine, causing two deaths and other overdoses. Damian Dovarganes/AP Damian Dovarganes/AP LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a wealthy California political donor on charges he injected gay men with methamphetamine in exchange for sex, leading to two deaths and other overdoses. Ed Buck, 66, was found guilty of all nine felony counts in federal court, which could lead to a life sentence...

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Clindamycin is an antibiotic that kills certain types of bacteria or stops them from growing. Doctors may prescribe this to kill Propionibacterium acnes ( P. acnes ) bacteria that can lead to pimples. While P. acnes bacteria naturally live on the skin, they can invade pores and cause inflammation that leads to acne. According to a 2019 research review , doctors still aren't sure why P. acnes leads to breakouts in some and not others. This is one of the reasons doctors prescribe antibiotics like clindamycin with other treatments. Doctors will usually recommend using several different treatments to target certain acne types. For example, doctors may prescribe clindamycin to treat mild to moderate acne, but not usually to treat severe acne forms. Doctors may treat severe acne with oral antibiotics instead of topical ones. If you have the type of acne that clindamycin is good for, your doctor will usually recommend the following combination of treatments: Your doctor may recommend u...

Warfarin is a prescription anti-coagulant medication used to help treat and prevent certain kinds of blood clots. Though it can be very helpful for some people, it does carry some risks. Drugs like warfarin are sometimes called "blood thinners." In reality, these drugs don't really "thin" your blood, but they do make it less likely to clot. Coumadin and Jantoven are common brand names of the drug warfarin. Illustration by Brianna Gilmartin, Verywell What Is a Blood Clot? Blood normally flows through your blood vessels in a liquid form. A blood clot is a group of specific blood components and proteins that have joined together in a semi-solid state. The process of forming a blood clot is called "coagulation." Sometimes blood clots are helpful and necessary—for example, they are needed to reduce the flow of blood out of a wound. However, blood clots can also be very dangerous. They may block a blood vessel and r...

Find answers to some commonly asked questions about hydroxyzine oral tablet. Is hydroxyzine used to help with sleep? If it is, what's the dosage? Hydroxyzine is not approved to help with sleep. But it may be used off-label for this purpose. (Off-label use means a drug is given for a condition it hasn't been approved to treat.) Hydroxyzine can affect everyone differently. Both sleepiness and insomnia are possible side effects of the drug. (With insomnia, you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep.) So it's possible that hydroxyzine may help you sleep. But the drug may also keep you awake. You'll know more about how hydroxyzine affects you after you've taken the drug for several days. To learn more about using hydroxyzine to help with sleep, talk with your doctor. How long do hydroxyzine's effects last? And how long does it stay in your system? Hydroxyzine is a type of drug called an antihistamine. It works by attaching to histamine receptors (binding sites...

If you've been prescribed a medication called Pegasys to treat chronic hepatitis C, chronic hepatitis B, or another liver problem, you may be wondering about the drug's side effects. The most common side effects for peginterferon (such as Pegasys or PegIntron) are: fatigue headache fever muscle pain chills However, other possible side effects are listed below. Although these side effects are specifically for Pegasys (a brand name peginterferon alfa-2a drug for treating hepatitis C and sometimes hepatitis B), they are similar to any other peginterferon such as PegIntron. ViewStock / Getty Images How Side Effects Are Determined Before a drug such as Pegasys can be licensed as an approved treatment for hepatitis B and hepatitis C, it has to be tested in clinical trials. Clinical trials are scientific studies that determine if the drug is safe and what the side effects are. The side effects listed bel...