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An Onlooker's Notebook 620

• Women in science 620
• Poisoned children 620
• Ancient acupuncturists 620
• Mystery man 620

Leading Article 621

• Gown planning

News 622-624

• NICE issues confusing guidance on new influenza treatment 622
• Glaxo calls for NICE overhaul 622
• Welsh primary care strategy 623
• New Health Secretary 623
• Scots settle remuneration for 1999-2000 at £78.23m 623
• Training pack for nurse prescribers 624
• Pharmacy tests result in wrong advice, says CA 624
• UKPPG to form a new college 624

Clinical Pharmacy 625-628

• WHO says "act now" to avoid "epidemic" of hip fractures 625
• Alendronate for osteoporosis in men? 625
• Immunosuppressant-related PCP in dermatology patients 625
• Unplanned pregnancies not the result of ignorance, says BPAS 625
• Steroid injections best for tennis elbow, study finds 626
• Liver toxicity warning for flutamide 626
• GSL Zantac to be available next month 626
• Retinoid spray for pre-invasive lung cancer 627
• Doubly resistant head lice found 627
• Lottery money for head lice trial 627
• Advice to patients: (34) Gliclazide tablets 627
• A universal influenza A vaccine? 628
• Another superbug? 628
• Atopic symptoms reported in half of all 12 to 14 year olds 628

Business 629

• Unichem says "baby come back" 629
• Generics situation better by spring, says Norton MD 629
• Numark launches intranet and EPoS 629

The Society 630-635

• October meeting of Council 630-633
• Inspection of pharmaceutical services in prisons 634-635
• Obituaries 635
• Antibiotics seen as a "cure-all", says Society 635

Letters to the Editor 636-638

• Staving off bankruptcy 636
• Death of the NHS as we know it 636
• Caring members 636
• Confusing the patient 637
• Any spares? 637
• BNF change 637
• More notice please 637
• Agency impartial 637
• High charge for phenobarbitone 638
• French lessons 638
• Unfair restriction 638
• Eclectic beast 638

Articles 639-640

• Pharmacy and the new political landscape in Wales (S. Whitaker)

The Conference 641-648

• Science symposium 641-643
• Complementary medicine session 644-646
• Academic pharmacy session 647-648

International 649-652

• Pharmacy in Spain (P. Mason) 649-650
• World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Harmonising specifications for chemical and biological quality characteristics 651-652
• World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Harmonising treatment of marketing authorisation variations 652

Forum 653-654

• Unichem convention

Products 655-656

• Femodette tablet 655
• Zymomet gel 655
• Cipramil drops 40mg/ml 655
• Fluoxetine capsules 655
• Dimotane Plus patient pack 655
• Begrivac 655
• Data sheet amendment 655
• Distribution change 655
• Discontinued products 655
• Tetrabenazine 655
• New patient pack size 656
• Chlordiazepoxide capsules 10mg 656
• Strepsils cough lozenges 656
• Full Marks lotion 656
• New Imodium GSL pack 656
• Incontinence booklet 656
• Bodywatch home testing kits 656
• Nurse Prescribers' Formulary 656
• Asthma website 656
• Neonatal formulary 656
• Price changes 656

Notice-Board 657-658

• Diary 657
• Future events 657
• Official notices 657
• NPA Christmas card 658
• Reunions 658
• Wants list 658
• Announcements 658
• Corrections 658
• Personal 658
• Drug tariff updates 658