The Pharmaceutical Journal
February 19, 2000

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Comment

An Onlooker's Notebook   278

• Vandals at their worst
• Child trepanation in Rome
• The march of time
• Festina lente

Leading Articles   279

• Against the tide
• Dietary advice

News   280-282

• PSNC opposition to OTC prescribing algorithms 280
• LPC shows frustration with PSNC 280
• OTC radio broadcasts 280
• Study to look at asthma monitoring by community pharmacists 281
• Trust fined for malaria death 281
• Website news 281
• Violence in French pharmacies 281
• PCPA website 281
• Project finds 200 new traditional medicines from Bhutan 282
• Welsh Assembly launches improvement plan for Wales 282
• Scottish heart disease resource pack 282
• Walk-in centres will supply medicines 282

Clinical Pharmacy   283-286

• Fat redistribution and long-term HIV treatment 283
• Preliminary results with once daily protease inhibitor announced 283
• Ocular toxicity and tamoxifen 283
• Encouraging results for "first new class of antibiotic for over 30 years" 284
• New caution on abacavir hypersensitivity 284
• More questions raised over the safety of St John's wort 285
• Dietary advice tips: (1) Hypertension 285
• Nebulised steroids and RSV 285
• Pharmacists may be supplying wrong scabies treatment, case studies indicate 286
• Device for identifying most appropriate inhaler 286
• Pamidronate trial in infant 286

Business   287

• Pharmacist gains £1.5m for internet business-to-business venture 287
• Wholesalers expand finance deals 287
• Unichem sponsors Italy 287
• Pasteur name change 287

The Society   288-291

• Roadshow heads north 288
• PDG awards to total £70,000 288
• Early election for Academy of Pharmaceutical Scientists 288
• Obituaries 289
• Society debate on postcode health care 289
• Statutory Committee
  • Relapsed addict struck off 290
  • Unlawful sales to newspaper's agent lead to striking-off order 290-291
  • CDs and POMs sold to newspaper's investigator: pharmacist struck off 291

Broad Spectrum   292

• Linking the profession to wider policy (C. Duggan and S. Dhillon)

Letters to the Editor   293-297

• Why partial payments? 293
• Timely reminder 293
• Look at BRM expenses, too 293
• Transparency and performance 293
• Labelling of blister strips 293
• Answer please 293
• Sympathy 294
• Shared experience 294
• Unaware decision makers 294
• More bargaining power 294
• Knowing the answer 294
• Making capsules 294
• Confusing product 295
• Jury still out 295
• Flaws in the system 295
• Changes needed 295
• Need for colour agreement 296
• Pilot collection scheme proposed 296
• How to reduce waste 296
• Confirmed believers 297
• Confidentiality gets in the way 297
• HRT and mammography 297
• An open letter 297

Continuing education   298-301

• Eye disorders. Topical ocular antibiotics: Part 1 (L. C. Titcomb)

Interview   302-303

• Penny Beck: Pharmacy must deliver a quality service (J. Buisson)

Forum   304-305

• National Institutes of Health/American Society for Nutritional Sciences

Articles   306-308

• Access 24 (P. Mason) 306-307
• Pharmacy locality groups in Lothian - a review of the first year (D. MacBrayne) 307-308

Reviews   309

• Book review: Instant pharmacology 309
• Book review: Stability-indicating HPLC methods for drug analysis 309
• Book review: Conducting GCP-compliant clinical research 309

Products   310

• Glibenese SPC changes 310
• Isodur XL capsules 310
• Genus products 310
• Ketalar 100mg/ml injection 310
• CP allopurinol 310
• Merbentyl syrup 310
• Hydralazine 25mg tablets 310
• Glucotrend 2 Soft Test System 310
• Health information books 310
• Natural Medicines Formulary 310
• Parkinson's disease help-line 310
• Erectile dysfunction help-line 310

Notice-Board   311-312

• Official Notices 311
• Diary 311-312
• Future Events 312
• About People 312
• Corrections 312
• Drug Tariff Updates 312
• BP for Kosovo 312

Topical ocular antibiotics

Our continuing education article this week is on topical ocular antibiotics, part of a series on eye disorders (p298).

PSNC rejects algorithms

The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee has rejected the possible use of algorithms to support OTC prescribing by community pharmacists (p280). Leading article (p279).

Nutrition tips

This week we publish the first part of a new series of dietary advice tips for pharmacists (p285). Comment (p279).

Tesco interview

The Journal recently interviewed Penny Beck, Tesco's superintendent pharmacist (p302).

Dietary supplements

The bioavailability of dietary supplements was the subject of a recent international meeting in the United States (p304).

Health information

This week we publish an article on Access 24, which provides health information by telephone to patients, carers and health professionals (p306).