The Pharmaceutical Journal
January 8, 2000

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An Onlooker's Notebook 42

• Understanding depression
• Keeping fit
• Fatal freeze

Leading Articles 43

• Emergency contraception trial 43
• Pharmaceutical Care Awards 1999 43

News 44-46

• Emergency contraception trial in Manchester pharmacies 44
• Inquiry recommends eye product separation 44
• NHS fraud almost halved 44
• OBE for pharmacist in new year honours 45
• Quality assessment guide for primary care pharmacists 45
• Villagers petition Commons for pharmacy 45
• Deputy chief for NHS Executive 45
• Pharmacy dean for homoeopathy 45
• The SIGN is more prescriber focused than the NICE, meeting is told 46
• Animal medicine record plan relaxed 46
• Tories propose repeat prescription medicines category 46
• WMCPG on the web 46

Business 47

• Non-compliance leads to PPRS changes 47
• 3,000 sign up for new displays 47
• P&U and Monsanto in merger deal 47

Clinical Pharmacy 48-49

• Liver toxicity of AIDS drugs 48
• Meals with cheese protect against tooth decay, dentists say 48
• Celecoxib has better gastrointestinal safety than diclofenac, researchers say 48
• Continuing cardiovascular drugs perioperatively 49
• Hypericum - efficacy confirmed but safety questioned 49
• Time to quit? 49

The Society 50-53

• Obituaries 50-51
• Obituaries - Jim Downing 50
• Obituaries - Will Kneale 50-51
• Obituaries - Philip Crees 51
• Statutory Committee - Poor practice standards lead to striking-off order 52
• Statutory Committee - Pharmacist reprimanded for unlawful sales 53
• Statutory Committee - Mitigating factors lead to dismissal of dispensing error case 53

Letters to the Editor 54-55

• Dangers of rigid evidence-based approach 54
• Education for future roles 54
• Members' generosity 54
• Till role 54
• Variable prices 54
• Welcome to the new century 55
• The dreaded D word 55
• Wrong target 55
• Dogmatically speaking 55

Broad Spectrum 56

• The demise of homoeopathy? (E. Ernst)

Special feature 57-68

• Pharmaceutical care: (7) Arthritis (A. Bayraktar, S. Hudson, A. Watson, S. Fraser)

Articles 69-76

• Pharmacy at Portsmouth university - change and challenge (P. Mason) 69-70
• Drug-induced eosinophilia (I. Maidment, C. Williams) 71-76

Products 77

• Femostan-conti tablets 77
• DTP vaccine Behring SPC changes 77
• Kliovance tablets new indication 77
• Fucidin tablets 77
• Product transfer 77
• Burinex liquid 77
• Discontinued 77
• Aciclovir IV 77
• Steriflex no 11 Hartmanns solution 77
• Germolene and Germoloids 77
• Comfasure 77
• Price changes 77

Notice-Board 78

• Diary 78
• Future events 78
• Drug tariff updates 78
• About people 78
• Corrections 78

A 12-page special feature on pharmaceutical care in arthritis, which includes case studies (p57-68).

Pharmaceutical care awards 1999

This issue contains the entry form for the 1999 Pharmaceutical Care Awards (opposite p47); leading article (p43).

Emergency contraception trial

Sixteen community pharmacies in the Manchester, Salford and Trafford health action zone area are taking part in a pilot scheme for the supply by designated pharmacists of hormonal emergency contraception under a group protocol (p44); leading article (p43).

Pharmacy at Portsmouth university

Pamela Mason visited the school of pharmacy and biomedical sciences at Portsmouth university recently to find out about its teaching and research programmes (p69).

Drug-induced eosinophilia

A review article this week looks at drugs that produce eosinophilia and explains how this condition may be managed (p71)