• Pill for chest pains ‘could save 10,000 lives a year’
  

  A pill for chest pains that costs around £10 per week could save the lives of thousands of heart failure patients.

• Low-carb and low-fat diets equally good for weight loss
  

  Both low-fat and low-carb diets work equally well to help people lose weight over two years, new research has shown.

• Hope and controversy over prostate cancer screening
  

  Screening older men with the PSA blood test could cut prostate cancer deaths by around half, according to a new study.

• Antidepressant use rises as recession feeds wave of worry
  

  The number of antidepressants prescribed by the NHS has almost doubled in the last decade, and rose sharply last year as the recession bit, figures reveal.

• Overtime could break your heart
  

  Overtime is bad for the heart, according to researchers who followed the careers of more than 6,000 Whitehall civil servants.

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• UK drug shortages “soaring” - Pharma Times
  

  UK drug shortages “soaring”Pharma TimesMore than 80% of UK pharmacists say it is now more difficult than ever to obtain branded medicines and many expect things to get worse next year, .

• Lloydspharmacy reviews media business - CampaignLive
  

  Lloydspharmacy reviews media businessCampaignLiveUniversal McCann Birmingham currently handles media for the UK pharmacy chain, which has approached agencies .

• Switzerland Dwarfs Germany With Earnings Growth Paced by Nestle-Novartis - Bloomberg
  

  Switzerland Dwarfs Germany With Earnings Growth Paced by Nestle-NovartisBloombergWhen pharmacy assistant Heinrich Nestle left Frankfurt in the 1830s to set up shop in .

• Rite Aid to test new store format - Financial Times
  

  Rite Aid to test new store formatFinancial TimesRite Aid, the US drugstore chain, is to test a new grocery-and-pharmacy store format that reflects the growing interest of .

• Vitamin B May Help Prevent Mental Decline in Elderly - WebMD
  

  Vitamin B May Help Prevent Mental Decline in ElderlyWebMDThe tablets used were nothing like the ones you might buy in a supermarket or pharmacy; they are very high doses.