Treating any cancer in pregnancy is complex and a carefully tailored treatment plan is required at all stages, with consideration to the needs of the mother and risks to the foetus. 

Every case of pregnancy-associated cancer should be discussed in multidisciplinary team meetings for series and sequence of...

Alexander Fleming was not a tidy man. His laboratory was constantly cluttered with various bacteriological experiments. One day in 1928, when he was tidying up some Petri dishes on which he had been culturing staphylococcus bacteria, he noticed that one of the dishes contained the growth of a curious mould....

The prescribing of medication is one of the most frequent, if not the most frequent, intervention in medicine. Polypharmacy is common and medication error happens frequently and is more likely to occur at transitions of care.¹

The population of patients who experience prescribing errors is varied. However,...

A delayed prescription is one that is given to a patient or patient’s carer for an appropriate antibiotic (in the case of this research). It is not meant to be used unless  symptoms worsen or do not start to settle in the expected timescale. 

The delayed prescription has often been described as a method of...

Most commonly, warfarin is used in elderly persons for prevention of stroke in the setting of atrial fibrillation (AF). The lifetime prevalence of AF is nearly 12% among people over 75 years of age. It is now well established that AF is the most common cause of embolic stroke and is directly responsible for more...