The way e-cigarette products are being marketed and lobbied for is straight out of the Big Tobacco…
The Expectation Effect: a Pious Fraud?
The treatment journey of a friend with Stage 4 cancer got Terry Maguire wondering about the power of the placebo…
Fat Profits or a Fat Lip for pharma?
Terry Maguire looks at the effects of a new weight loss drug and how it compares with its predecessors…
The Cost of failing to transform the pharmacy network
Lessons need to be learned from the media hysteria created by some tragic child deaths in the UK and the Pharmacy …
The Ups and Downs of Ivermectin
Terry Maguire balances the hype around ivermectin against the scientific facts and clinical…
Covid-19 Vaccines; How Safe And Efficacious Are They?
Vaccines. We can ask objective scientific questions about the safety and efficacy of the Covid-19…
The Depressing Facts About Depression Treatment
The current approach to treating depression has failed and bearing in mind the recent evidence…
A Not So Subtle Threat?
A Zoom Call Meeting Raised Some Red Flags For Terry Maguire, With Community Pharmacists…
‘Turkey Teeth’ And ‘harem Hair’: Is Medical Tourism Lengthening Waiting Lists?
Terry Maguire Wonders If The Increasing Popularity Of Medical Tourism For Cosmetic…
Is Addiction Really A Disease?
Recalling His Own Family History, Terry Maguire Tries To Make Sense Of The Scourge Of Addiction…
Can We Really Transform The Pharmacy Network?
TERRY MAGUIRE OUTLINES HIS EFFORTS TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE AND ENHANCE THE SOCIETAL…
Does Evidence-Based Medicine Need More Rcts?
Admitting A Mistake, Terry Maguire Acknowledges That We Need To Be More Supportive…
LISTENING TO THE EXPERTS
late December, as the Christmas tree lights twinkled in windows along our street and I should…
What Are You Doing About Climate Change?
As COP26 brought traffic chaos and 100 per cent hotel bed-occupancy to Glasgow last November…
What are you doing about climate change?
As COP26 brought traffic chaos and 100 per cent hotel bed-occupancy to Glasgow last November…
The cost of everything; The value of nothing
There is a clear value from pharmacist involvement in supplying ehc but commissioners need to start paying properly for the service, writes Terry Maguire Accusations…
A Tale of Two Pharmacists
Terry Maguire considers the potential historical significance of Pharmacist Matthew McDonald to Irish pharmacy politics. It was the best of times, it was the worst…
‘We did nothing wrong’
Terry Maguire tries to establish where the blame lies for America’s devastating opioid epidemic With focus on Covid-19, the US opioid pandemic has largely been…
‘Not Happy!’
Terry Maguire recalls a text message-based explosion of frustration from an exhausted pharmacy sector. But was it merited? On the evening of the first Friday…
50 Years of Drug Prohibition in the UK
Terry Maguire reviews the contents of the UK’s Misuse of Drugs act on the 50th anniversary of its introduction As a service, we had failed…
The understanding of risk
Terry Maguire shares his experiences of administering the Covid vaccine in his pharmacies Wednesday and Saturday for the past eight weeks have been vaccination days…
‘Action Needed Immediately’
A code-word scheme to help victims of domestic violence in the pharmacy has its positives and negatives, writes Terry Maguire Domestic violence, in all its…
Ireland shot itself in the foot, not in the arm
When politics interferes with the vaccine surveillance process, we move to emotion informing beliefs and decisions, writes Terry Maguire In the 1960s, US President Johnson…
We need to neutralise any would be anti-vaxxer-in-chief
VACCINE HESITANCY WILL INCREASE AS WE EXTEND BEYOND THE HIGH-RISK GROUPS, WRITES TERRY MAGUIRE Medical scientists are more positive than they have been for months.…
Is Covid-19 orthodoxy abusing science and killing free speech?
There is a worrying trend towards ignoring facts and free speech in favour of self-righteousness over Covid-19, writes Terry Maguire Listening to a local morning…
Continuing to educate pharmacists
Terry Maguire ponders what may become a permanent fixture — virtual CPD meetings for pharmacists News that RoI’s medicines regulator has granted an OTC licence…
A Workforce in Crisis
Terry Maguire reflects on the scant reasons to be cheerful arising from the statistics in the recently-published pharmacy workforce review 2019 Never aspiring to be…
Vested interest means Boris Johnson has a fat chance of getting us thin
Terry Maguire chews the fat on the powers behind the obesity epidemic UK PM Boris Johnson contracted Covid-19 back in March and suffered significant symptoms,…
Statins are they really good?
Terry Maguire looks more closely at the evidence for statin use, including the potential side-effects I came to statin treatment in a bizarre way. I…
Opium of the People
A certain drug stands out in a recent report on the medicines used and abused in Northern Ireland, writes Terry Maguire Publication of the Statistics…
