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Virginia McMillan follows up on the cancer-drug trial she first reported in 2017, when patients with glioblastoma were being recruited to test a regimen of repurposed drugs
O’Rawe M, Wickremesekera A, Pandey R et al. Treatment of glioblastoma with re-purposed renin-angiotensin system modulators: Results of a phase I clinical trial. J Clin Neurosci 2022;95:48–54.
This article, written by Sidhesh Phaldessai, provides an overview of geriatric psychopharmacology, including the epidemiology of mental health disorders in the older population, the physiological changes that occur with ageing and their impact on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and the use of psychotropic medications in older adults
Current clinical guidelines emphasise the significance of having two Adrenaline Auto-Injectors (AAIs) for individuals at risk of anaphylaxis.1*
