The Pharmaceutical Journal December 04, 1999

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Comment

• Tricky evidence
• Dangerous disorders
• Memory and motherhood

Leading Article 885

• A life in pharmacy

News 886-889

• NHS winter campaign goes public 886
• NHS told to guarantee open pharmacies 886
• PM steps in on OTC pill plans 886
• Fewer independents 886
• Guild honours senior members 887
• Guild concern over MSF/AEEU merger 886
• PSNC signs anti-fraud charter 886
• NPA opposes Society proposal to register technicians 888
• Scottish version of NICE to open in the spring 888
• Socioeconomic research centre set up at Welsh school of pharmacy 889

Clinical Pharmacy 890-892

• Clozapine linked to cardiac complications 890
• Wide variation in cardiac prescribing,reviw reveals 890
• Acetylcysteine may be useful for ichthyosis 891
• Statin trial will also test antibiotics 891
• Another role for statins? 891
• Predicting hospital admission rates for influenza 891
• Chewing glucose tablets aids smoking cessation 892
• GI benefits of COX-2 specific inhibitors questioned 892
• Immune suppressing enterotoxin to be developed 892
• Nasonex licence extended 892

Business 893

• Unit price exemption for small shops 893
• Unichem enters Swiss market 893
• Galen makes £40m investment 893

The Society 894-897

• Nine pharmacists designated fellows 894
• MEP guide: December amendments 894
• Head appointed for policy support unit 895
• President visits Abbey Pharmacy 895
• Obituaries 895
• Statutory Committee 896-897
• Council statement 895

Letters to the Editor 898-899

• Pharmacists not alone in struggling 898
• Diagnosis, or response to symptoms 898
• Silent salesmen 898
• Folic acid bioavailability 898
• Knowing about tomorrow's therapies 899
• Flood of new pharmacies 899
• Moral code neeeded 899
• Two questions 899

  Continuing Education 900-905

  • Eye disorders: Mydriatic-cycloplegic drugs and corticosteroids   (L. C. Titcomb)

  Articles 906-908

  • Creatine: the athlete's wonder supplement? (S. Kayne)

  Original papers 909-913

  • A pharmacy workforce survey in the West Midlands: (1) Current work profiles and patterns (A. Blenkinsopp et al)

  Forum 914-923

  • University of Nottingham jubilee 914-915
  • Primary and Community Care Pharmacy Network 916
  • Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists
    • No confidence vote rebuke 917
    • Rationing and funding the NHS 918
    • New journal and website 918
    • Vaccine storage and prescripton legibility 918
    • Testing competence to practice 919
    • US text books 919
  • Young Pharmacists Group
    • Supervision - time for a new debate? 920
    • Service provision is the future of pharmacy? 921
    • YPG to appoint advisory panel of senior members 921
  • Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin seminar 922-923

  Products 924

  • New indication for Anabact gel 924
  • Nasonex spray 924
  • Lisuride tablets 924
  • Vancocin 250mg vials 924
  • Salbutamol syrup 924
  • Neo-Cortef supply 924
  • Diclofenac tablets 924
  • Vamin Glucose solution 924
  • Herbal products 924
  • Echinacea lozenges 924
  • Better prostate health leaflet 924
  • Wartner spray 924
  • Labels update 924

  Notice-Board 925-926

  • Diary 925
  • Future events 925-926
  • Awards 925
  • Christmas closures 926
  • Announcements 926
  • Appointments 926
  • Wants lists 926
  • About people 926
  • Corrections 926

The third article in our continuing education series on eye disorders is about the ophthalmic use of mydriatic-cycloplegic drugs and corticosteroids (p900).

Technician registration

The National Pharmaceutical Association is opposing the registration of pharmacy technicians by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (p888).

New socioeconomic centre

A new socioeconomic centre has been opened at the Welsh school of pharmacy (p889).

Workforce study

This week we publish a study that looks at pharmacy workforce profiles and patterns in the West Midlands (p909). Leading article (p885) .

Council Statement

A Council Statement on on-line pharmacy services appears this week on p895.

Guild meeting

The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists has voted against a motion calling for five-yearly re-examination of pharmacists (p919).

Non-compliance

Dealing with non-compliance was the subject of a recent Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin seminar in London (p922).