Darcy Jimenez

C+D • 29th October 2025

Exclusive: Unpaid locums take legal action against Jhoots pharmacies

Jhoots Pharmacy businesses owned by Sarbjit Jhooty and Nilam Patel owe locum pharmacists a total of almost £1 million in unpaid fees, the Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) has said.

C+D • 9th October 2025

Exclusive: Almost 750 weight loss jab concerns raised with GPhC this year

The pharmacy regulator has received 746 concerns relating to weight management since this January, C+D can exclusively reveal.

C+D • 1st October 2025

GPhC whistleblower disclosures rocket up 208% in a year

Whistleblowing disclosures made by pharmacy workers to the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) have risen by more than 200% since last year, a new report last week (September 25) revealed.

C+D • 10th September 2025

Pharmacies enlist campaign help amid weight loss ad warnings

Pharmacies are enlisting external PR and marketing support to manage campaigns around their weight loss services, amid soaring demand for weight loss jabs and warnings from industry regulators about “inappropriate” marketing of the drugs.

Cosmopolitan • 29th January 2021

The young women choosing to go without contraception

Kate* had been with her boyfriend for two years when she became pregnant. The couple hadn’t been using birth control - but not because they were hoping for a baby. At 23, Kate didn’t want to conceive at all. She felt so uncomfortable using the contraceptive methods available to her that she had purposefully been going without, preferring to risk getting pregnant instead.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 19th April 2021

Ivermectin and Covid-19: how a cheap antiparasitic became political

In the year since the Covid-19 pandemic began, various unconventional treatments have been hailed as potential cures for the respiratory virus that has so far claimed over three million lives worldwide.

The Guardian • 29th September 2020

'Let down': calls for Gibraltar's Covid-delayed abortion vote to take place

Earlier this year, pro-choice activists in Gibraltar were hopeful that their territory’s abortion laws – the harshest in Europe – could soon be overturned. Terminations are banned in the tiny British territory, even in the cases of rape, incest, or foetal abnormality where the foetus will not survive. Abortions are punishable by life imprisonment, except when the woman’s life is in danger.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 16th September 2021

Billionaires are betting on anti-ageing research, but can ageing really be cured?

Searching for the key to immortality may sound like the preoccupation of a superhero-movie villain, but a growing number of biotech companies – and billionaires with cash to spare – are investing in research that could prevent and reverse the ageing process in humans.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 1st December 2021

Lethal injection: can pharma kill the death penalty?

In October, Oklahoma prison inmate John Marion Grant was executed by a lethal injection. Strapped to a gurney, Grant convulsed and vomited – highly unusual for the procedure – after being given midazolam, a sedative and the first of three drugs that are usually administered for lethal injection. Grant was declared unconscious around 15 minutes after receiving the first injection and died roughly six minutes after that.

Metro • 30th January 2021

How lockdown is pushing women towards an alcohol crisis, with mums at the front

Two empty Dolmio sauce jars was all it took for the relief to kick in. Spotting them in her recycling bin as she added her empties from the week, Anna, 47, can still recall how the sight of them made her feel. ‘I remember being so grateful they were in there and not just beer and wine bottles clanking around,’ explains the mum-of-two.

Metro • 20th August 2020

'I've never experienced anything so hard': Lockdown's impact on chronic pain sufferers

Lynsey Searle has lived with fibromyalgia, a condition causing widespread pain and extreme tiredness, for around five years. The counsellor, 42, has regular massages and chiropractic treatment but fears this option may soon be taken away. East Lancashire, where she lives, remains under strict local lockdown after a surge in coronavirus cases.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 22nd October 2021

Pharma’s reliance on horseshoe crabs is threatening the species

Horseshoe crabs are a species of marine arthropod that have existed for around 450 million years – but for over four decades, the creatures have also played a crucial role in human health.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 6th October 2021

Generic drug safety: US regulators struggle to keep up with a global market

While foreign manufacturing inspections have increased, the challenges of properly regulating generics from non-US drugmakers remain.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 28th October 2021

Are supercomputers set to transform pharma R&D?

Advanced technology is now commonplace in pharma, where innovations like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning accelerate and improve the accuracy of drug discovery and development efforts. Add to the list the supercomputer – a powerful class of computer, vastly superior to general-purpose computers in terms of speed and performance, that are commonly used for data-intensive scientific purposes.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 28th July 2021

What could a vaccine patent waiver mean for pharma manufacturing?

In October 2020, India and South Africa submitted a proposal at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily waive drug companies’ intellectual property (IP) rights for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) treaty.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 13th July 2021

Covid-19 vaccines and periods: what do we know so far?

More than three billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines have now been administered worldwide – and, as with all pharmaceutical products, side effects have been observed. The AstraZeneca vaccine has been linked to rare cases of serious blood clots, while the UK recently added rare heart inflammation to the lists of side effects for Pfizer and Moderna’s jabs.

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Pharmaceutical Technology • 28th January 2022

How AI could unlock the medical potential of psychedelics

Research into the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs was pioneered by psychiatrists way back in the 1950s, but the emergence of advanced technologies in pharma appears to have breathed new life into the field.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 25th February 2022

Profit for patients: can NFTs allow people to monetise their health data?

From art to real estate, it seems NFTs are infiltrating almost every market – and healthcare could be next. In a commentary published in Science earlier this month, a cross-sectional team of scholars led by bioethicists at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) proposed that the emerging technology could allow patients to control and profit from their medical data.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 11th November 2021

Antibiotic resistance: how AI can tackle the superbug threat

As the world continues to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic, another health crisis is looming: antibiotic resistance. Bacterial resistance is something that occurs naturally, but widespread antibiotic misuse has propelled antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to major global health threat status; at least 700,000 people are killed by drug-resistant superbugs every year – and by 2050, this number could reach 10 million.

Pharmaceutical Technology • 26th October 2021

Covid-19: vaccine pricing varies wildly by country and company

As the debate about vaccine inequity in low-income countries rages on, even nations with access to the leading Covid-19 jabs are paying wildly different prices for doses.