Paediatric Pharmacologist (Dan)
@pharmaforkids.bsky.social
Professor paediatric clinical pharmacology. Clinical Academic University of Liverpool (@liverpooluni.bsky.social) and Alder Hey (@alderhey.nhs.uk). Director of Liverpool Institute of Child Health and Wellbeing (@LICHW.bsky.social)
🚨New Publication Klaxon🚨
Prescriptions of corticosteroids in primary care and related clinical indications: a national population-based cohort study in England (using CPRD data - mostly adults)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk @livuninews.bsky.social
Prescriptions of corticosteroids in primary care and related clinical indications: a national population-based cohort study in England (using CPRD data - mostly adults)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk @livuninews.bsky.social
Prescriptions of corticosteroids in primary care and related clinical indications: a national population-based cohort study in England
Corticosteroid prescribing remains widespread in primary care in England. These findings
highlight the need to evaluate safer therapeutic alternatives and update current guidelines
for potentially red...
www.thelancet.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🚨New Publication Klaxon🚨
Prescriptions of corticosteroids in primary care and related clinical indications: a national population-based cohort study in England (using CPRD data - mostly adults)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk @livuninews.bsky.social
Prescriptions of corticosteroids in primary care and related clinical indications: a national population-based cohort study in England (using CPRD data - mostly adults)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk @livuninews.bsky.social
Sorting out a viva for one of this years (nearly) completed PhD students from @livuni-ilcams.bsky.social and re-realised his review of poor housing and indoor air quality & respiratory health is really good
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@europeanrespsoc.bsky.social @iansinha.bsky.social
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December 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sorting out a viva for one of this years (nearly) completed PhD students from @livuni-ilcams.bsky.social and re-realised his review of poor housing and indoor air quality & respiratory health is really good
publications.ersnet.org/content/brea...
@europeanrespsoc.bsky.social @iansinha.bsky.social
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@europeanrespsoc.bsky.social @iansinha.bsky.social
I made the @livunihls.bsky.social annual round up!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/health-and-l...
More importantly, this shows all the great stuff happening around this bit of @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas & New Year and lets go again in January!
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social
www.liverpool.ac.uk/health-and-l...
More importantly, this shows all the great stuff happening around this bit of @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas & New Year and lets go again in January!
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences highlights 2025 | Stories | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences | University of Liverpool
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December 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I made the @livunihls.bsky.social annual round up!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/health-and-l...
More importantly, this shows all the great stuff happening around this bit of @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas & New Year and lets go again in January!
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social
www.liverpool.ac.uk/health-and-l...
More importantly, this shows all the great stuff happening around this bit of @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas & New Year and lets go again in January!
@livuni-ilcams.bsky.social
Every year as part of the @alderhey.nhs.uk Research Ambassador scheme I do a careers day at West Derby school. Talked to about 30-40 pupils.
And this year, like every year, it’s a great day. The kids are amazing and the team there fab. Both a real credit to the community.
#Liverpool #WestDerby
And this year, like every year, it’s a great day. The kids are amazing and the team there fab. Both a real credit to the community.
#Liverpool #WestDerby
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Every year as part of the @alderhey.nhs.uk Research Ambassador scheme I do a careers day at West Derby school. Talked to about 30-40 pupils.
And this year, like every year, it’s a great day. The kids are amazing and the team there fab. Both a real credit to the community.
#Liverpool #WestDerby
And this year, like every year, it’s a great day. The kids are amazing and the team there fab. Both a real credit to the community.
#Liverpool #WestDerby
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Vaccines saved 150 million children in 50 years. That’s 2× the UK’s population — alive because science worked. 94 million from measles alone.
No hype. Just data. ❤️
ourworldindata.org/vaccines-chi...
#BlueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky
#SciSky #EMSky #NurseSky #FmSky #PedsSky #CardioSky #ObSky #NewsSky
No hype. Just data. ❤️
ourworldindata.org/vaccines-chi...
#BlueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky
#SciSky #EMSky #NurseSky #FmSky #PedsSky #CardioSky #ObSky #NewsSky
December 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Girls' mental health is getting worse.
With gender norms, academic stress and social media comparisons, the pressures are building.
Earlier this year, we held a workshop in Westminster to ask: What’s working? And what needs to change?
Read our findings: www.childrenssociety.org.uk/information/...
With gender norms, academic stress and social media comparisons, the pressures are building.
Earlier this year, we held a workshop in Westminster to ask: What’s working? And what needs to change?
Read our findings: www.childrenssociety.org.uk/information/...
December 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Girls' mental health is getting worse.
With gender norms, academic stress and social media comparisons, the pressures are building.
Earlier this year, we held a workshop in Westminster to ask: What’s working? And what needs to change?
Read our findings: www.childrenssociety.org.uk/information/...
With gender norms, academic stress and social media comparisons, the pressures are building.
Earlier this year, we held a workshop in Westminster to ask: What’s working? And what needs to change?
Read our findings: www.childrenssociety.org.uk/information/...
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The University of Liverpool have written a piece about our HALo launch event 'Securing the Future: Shaping the UK Strategy of Long-acting Therapeutics'.
It's a nice reminder of our day with our guests and fellow hosts iiCON, CPI and the Henry Royce Institute.
news.liverpool.ac.uk?p=131351
It's a nice reminder of our day with our guests and fellow hosts iiCON, CPI and the Henry Royce Institute.
news.liverpool.ac.uk?p=131351
HALo hosts national meeting to discuss future UK LAT Strategy - University of Liverpool News
HALo hosts national meeting to discuss future UK LAT Strategy
news.liverpool.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The University of Liverpool have written a piece about our HALo launch event 'Securing the Future: Shaping the UK Strategy of Long-acting Therapeutics'.
It's a nice reminder of our day with our guests and fellow hosts iiCON, CPI and the Henry Royce Institute.
news.liverpool.ac.uk?p=131351
It's a nice reminder of our day with our guests and fellow hosts iiCON, CPI and the Henry Royce Institute.
news.liverpool.ac.uk?p=131351
Getting children to learn to swallow tablets is a fantastically useful life skill. What about doing this in a community setting?
@liverpooluni.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk @newcastleuni.bsky.social @greatormondst.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
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@liverpooluni.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk @newcastleuni.bsky.social @greatormondst.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
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Perspectives of stakeholders on running ‘Pill School’ in community settings: a survey based study
AbstractObjectives. Liquid formulations are the most widely used pharmaceutical forms among children but may not be the most appropriate. ‘Pill School’ met
academic.oup.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Getting children to learn to swallow tablets is a fantastically useful life skill. What about doing this in a community setting?
@liverpooluni.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk @newcastleuni.bsky.social @greatormondst.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ijpp/advance...
@liverpooluni.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk @newcastleuni.bsky.social @greatormondst.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
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🚨🚨New paper klaxon🚨🚨
The importance of arginine in neonates is hard to overstate, and this work shows how supplementation of feeds helps restore it to appropriate levels.
aspenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@liverpooluni.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk Liverpool Women's Hospital
The importance of arginine in neonates is hard to overstate, and this work shows how supplementation of feeds helps restore it to appropriate levels.
aspenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@liverpooluni.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk Liverpool Women's Hospital
Supplementary parenteral arginine corrects hypoargininaemia and rebalances plasma amino acid profiles in very preterm infants receiving parenteral nutrition: A prospective study
Background Plasma amino acid (AA) profiles in parenteral nutrition (PN)–dependent very preterm infants (VPIs) consistently show overprovision of essential AA (EAA) and arginine deficiency. This may ...
aspenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
🚨🚨New paper klaxon🚨🚨
The importance of arginine in neonates is hard to overstate, and this work shows how supplementation of feeds helps restore it to appropriate levels.
aspenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@liverpooluni.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk Liverpool Women's Hospital
The importance of arginine in neonates is hard to overstate, and this work shows how supplementation of feeds helps restore it to appropriate levels.
aspenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@liverpooluni.bsky.social @alderhey.nhs.uk Liverpool Women's Hospital
There are not too many kids who need Clopidogrel, but there are some (usually post op cardiac surgery)...
Makes the case to me for dedicated paediatric pharmacogenomic services!!
bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@alderhey.nhs.uk @liverpooluni.bsky.social @britpharmsoc.bsky.social
Makes the case to me for dedicated paediatric pharmacogenomic services!!
bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@alderhey.nhs.uk @liverpooluni.bsky.social @britpharmsoc.bsky.social
BPS Publications
Clopidogrel, an antiplatelet agent, is currently licensed in the United Kingdom for the prevention and treatment of atherothrombotic events in cerebrovascular disease, coronary artery disease and per...
bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
There are not too many kids who need Clopidogrel, but there are some (usually post op cardiac surgery)...
Makes the case to me for dedicated paediatric pharmacogenomic services!!
bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@alderhey.nhs.uk @liverpooluni.bsky.social @britpharmsoc.bsky.social
Makes the case to me for dedicated paediatric pharmacogenomic services!!
bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@alderhey.nhs.uk @liverpooluni.bsky.social @britpharmsoc.bsky.social
Silly costume ✅
Right place ✅
Pre- event coffee ✅
Double checked my students are attending ✅
Ok @liverpooluni.bsky.social winter graduation - here we go
Right place ✅
Pre- event coffee ✅
Double checked my students are attending ✅
Ok @liverpooluni.bsky.social winter graduation - here we go
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Silly costume ✅
Right place ✅
Pre- event coffee ✅
Double checked my students are attending ✅
Ok @liverpooluni.bsky.social winter graduation - here we go
Right place ✅
Pre- event coffee ✅
Double checked my students are attending ✅
Ok @liverpooluni.bsky.social winter graduation - here we go
That made me giggle
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
That made me giggle
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Best of luck and huge congratulations to everyone graduating today! Some fantastic work across our intercalating and PG students.
This is what all your hard work is for!
This is what all your hard work is for!
I have 4 masters students (MRes) graduating today - so will be there in the congregation! All did great work in child health research while intercalating from @livunimedicine.bsky.social and have totally earned their moment!
December 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Best of luck and huge congratulations to everyone graduating today! Some fantastic work across our intercalating and PG students.
This is what all your hard work is for!
This is what all your hard work is for!
There are some very good tips in here from @mhragovuk.bsky.social about how to avoid common medicine mistakes (e.g. remember cold/flu remedies contain paracetamol too - so don't double dose) relevant to children/young people...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Five festive mistakes you didn’t know you were making:
MHRA urges the public to be merry, not risky – don’t mix medicines with alcohol
This holiday season, the MHRA is highlighting one of the most overlooked winter health risks: combining medicines with alcohol.
www.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
There are some very good tips in here from @mhragovuk.bsky.social about how to avoid common medicine mistakes (e.g. remember cold/flu remedies contain paracetamol too - so don't double dose) relevant to children/young people...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
🚨🚨New paper klaxon 🚨🚨
Work @lichw.bsky.social (a collaboration between @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @alderhey.nhs.uk) about the use of elastomeric devices to give antibiotics to children mostly at home - speeding up safe discharge
adc.bmj.com/content/earl...
Archives of Disease in Childhood
Work @lichw.bsky.social (a collaboration between @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @alderhey.nhs.uk) about the use of elastomeric devices to give antibiotics to children mostly at home - speeding up safe discharge
adc.bmj.com/content/earl...
Archives of Disease in Childhood
Evaluating antibiotic medications delivered through elastomeric devices in a paediatric population: a systematic review
Background Elastomeric devices (EDs) allow infusion of antibiotic via an intravenous catheter over 24 hours, supporting outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy. We conducted a systematic review of...
adc.bmj.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🚨🚨New paper klaxon 🚨🚨
Work @lichw.bsky.social (a collaboration between @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @alderhey.nhs.uk) about the use of elastomeric devices to give antibiotics to children mostly at home - speeding up safe discharge
adc.bmj.com/content/earl...
Archives of Disease in Childhood
Work @lichw.bsky.social (a collaboration between @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @alderhey.nhs.uk) about the use of elastomeric devices to give antibiotics to children mostly at home - speeding up safe discharge
adc.bmj.com/content/earl...
Archives of Disease in Childhood
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Thanks to everyone who helped with this, all over the country. A team effort for our children.
Now to get it all done.
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Now to get it all done.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Thanks to everyone who helped with this, all over the country. A team effort for our children.
Now to get it all done.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6931e2...
Now to get it all done.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6931e2...
Latest Drug Safety Update from @mhragovuk.bsky.social
Raised intracranial pressure (Idiopathic intracranial hypertension if you prefer) from Mesalazine
www.gov.uk/drug-safety-...
Raised intracranial pressure (Idiopathic intracranial hypertension if you prefer) from Mesalazine
www.gov.uk/drug-safety-...
Mesalazine and idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) has been very rarely reported in patients treated with mesalazine. Following a recent review, warnings for IIH are being added to the product information for...
www.gov.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Latest Drug Safety Update from @mhragovuk.bsky.social
Raised intracranial pressure (Idiopathic intracranial hypertension if you prefer) from Mesalazine
www.gov.uk/drug-safety-...
Raised intracranial pressure (Idiopathic intracranial hypertension if you prefer) from Mesalazine
www.gov.uk/drug-safety-...
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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If you’re questioned about the costs of the 2-child limit & benefit cap, ask how much might it save the state (in public service demand, tax receipts, welfare etc) if we reduced child poverty by 1.2 million children…
A potential £164 billion pounds.
media.actionforchildren.org.uk/documents/AC...
A potential £164 billion pounds.
media.actionforchildren.org.uk/documents/AC...
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If you’re questioned about the costs of the 2-child limit & benefit cap, ask how much might it save the state (in public service demand, tax receipts, welfare etc) if we reduced child poverty by 1.2 million children…
A potential £164 billion pounds.
media.actionforchildren.org.uk/documents/AC...
A potential £164 billion pounds.
media.actionforchildren.org.uk/documents/AC...
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Amazing sky in Liverpool today
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Amazing sky in Liverpool today
Important reassurance from @mhragovuk.bsky.social about childhood vaccine safety. I agree with every word of this
#paediatrics #medsky #vaccine
www.gov.uk/government/n...
#paediatrics #medsky #vaccine
www.gov.uk/government/n...
MHRA reaffirms safety of childhood vaccination
Vaccination is one of the most effective and safest ways to protect against many serious infectious diseases
www.gov.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Important reassurance from @mhragovuk.bsky.social about childhood vaccine safety. I agree with every word of this
#paediatrics #medsky #vaccine
www.gov.uk/government/n...
#paediatrics #medsky #vaccine
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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MHRA issues reassurance on vaccine safety in children
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#MHRA #vaccines #vaccinesafety #childhoodvaccine #pharmacy #UKpharmacy
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#MHRA #vaccines #vaccinesafety #childhoodvaccine #pharmacy #UKpharmacy
MHRA issues reassurance on vaccine safety in children
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has reaffirmed that childhood vaccination is safe
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November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
MHRA issues reassurance on vaccine safety in children
buff.ly/wAMLzmd
#MHRA #vaccines #vaccinesafety #childhoodvaccine #pharmacy #UKpharmacy
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#MHRA #vaccines #vaccinesafety #childhoodvaccine #pharmacy #UKpharmacy
🚨🚨New publication klaxon 🚨🚨
BMJ Sports Medicine editorial (a @bmj.com journal) from @liverpooluni.bsky.social / @alderhey.nhs.uk / @lfcr.bsky.social about potential impacts of heading footballs for children, what to learn (and how), while avoiding putting kids off exercise
doi.org/10.1136/bjsp...
BMJ Sports Medicine editorial (a @bmj.com journal) from @liverpooluni.bsky.social / @alderhey.nhs.uk / @lfcr.bsky.social about potential impacts of heading footballs for children, what to learn (and how), while avoiding putting kids off exercise
doi.org/10.1136/bjsp...
Is it time for evidence-based protective strategies for heading in youth football?
Regular participation in sports, such as football (soccer), has positive effects on both physical1 and mental health.2 Despite these benefits, concerns have been raised about the potential neurologica...
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🚨🚨New publication klaxon 🚨🚨
BMJ Sports Medicine editorial (a @bmj.com journal) from @liverpooluni.bsky.social / @alderhey.nhs.uk / @lfcr.bsky.social about potential impacts of heading footballs for children, what to learn (and how), while avoiding putting kids off exercise
doi.org/10.1136/bjsp...
BMJ Sports Medicine editorial (a @bmj.com journal) from @liverpooluni.bsky.social / @alderhey.nhs.uk / @lfcr.bsky.social about potential impacts of heading footballs for children, what to learn (and how), while avoiding putting kids off exercise
doi.org/10.1136/bjsp...
Reposted by Paediatric Pharmacologist (Dan)
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
There’s something magical about letting people be.
Letting them shine in the ways that make sense to them.
🧡
#kindness #positivity #belief #compassion
There’s something magical about letting people be.
Letting them shine in the ways that make sense to them.
🧡
#kindness #positivity #belief #compassion
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
There’s something magical about letting people be.
Letting them shine in the ways that make sense to them.
🧡
#kindness #positivity #belief #compassion
There’s something magical about letting people be.
Letting them shine in the ways that make sense to them.
🧡
#kindness #positivity #belief #compassion
How is the UK going to marnage the new possibilities and opportunities of paediatric pharmacogenomics?
Good meeting, very pleased to have been able to contribute. Read on…
pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feat...
Via @pharmpress.bsky.social
Good meeting, very pleased to have been able to contribute. Read on…
pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feat...
Via @pharmpress.bsky.social
How can the NHS make the most out of the paediatric pharmacogenomics opportunity?
In its ten-year health plan for England, published in July 2025, the UK government pledged to put the NHS “at the front of the global genomics revolution”, teasing a “genomics population health servic...
pharmaceutical-journal.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
How is the UK going to marnage the new possibilities and opportunities of paediatric pharmacogenomics?
Good meeting, very pleased to have been able to contribute. Read on…
pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feat...
Via @pharmpress.bsky.social
Good meeting, very pleased to have been able to contribute. Read on…
pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feat...
Via @pharmpress.bsky.social