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For many patients, chronic pain, such as that from osteoarthritis, presents challenges. Pain episodes and frequent dosing with oral medications serve as constant reminders of their condition.

The Karvea and Karvezide range has just expanded. Fewer than 50% of patients achieve satisfactory blood pressure control with monotherapy and many will need combination therapy.4 Significant blood pressure reductions have been achieved in patients not at blood pressure goal with new Karvezide 300 25mg.

GPs can now prescribe FAMVIR tablets for patients with cold sores. Just a single 1500mg oral dose, which is 3 x 500mg tablets, is highly effective, with an improvement in time to healing of all lesions by an average of 2 days, improved time to resolution of pain and tenderness by an average of 1 day, and reduced median time to return to normal skin by 21/2-days. It is recommended that single dose Famvir be initiated as soon as possible after the onset of symptoms to achieve maximum suppression of viral replication, as HSV-1 viral replication peaks in the first 24 hours after the onset of the lesions.