BACKGROUND Licensing arrangements for nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in the UK were broadened in 2005 to allow prescribing to pregnant smokers. However, estimates of NRT prescribing in pregnant females in the UK are currently lacking. AIM To assess trends in NRT prescribing around pregnancy, and variation in prescribing by maternal characteristics. DESIGN AND SETTING Population-based de...

Concern has been raised about inadequate pharmacology teaching in medical schools and the high incidence of prescribing errors by doctors in training. Modifications in pharmacology teaching have been carried out in many countries. The present study was carried out using a semi-structured questionnaire to obtain students' perceptions of their knowledge, attitudes, and skills with regard to diffe...

OBJECTIVES To determine the potential for a source of surplus antibiotics in the community to come from the mismatch between the recommended duration of antibiotic treatment for common indications in primary care and that dictated by default pharmaceutical industry packaging. METHODS Analysis of existing published information of: 1) the most common antibiotics prescribed in primary care in Au...

Given a smooth free action of compact connected Lie group $G$ on manifold $M$, we show that the space $G$-invariant Riemannian metrics $M$ whose automorphism is precisely open dense in all metrics, provided dimension "sufficiently large" compared to $G$. As consequence, it follows every can be realized as some manifold; this recovers prior work by Bedford-Dadok and Saerens-Zame under less strin...