Front Cover Picture
This week's front cover photograph, taken in a National Health Service walk-in centre at Charing Cross hospital, London, shows nurse practitioner Justine Wallace examining a patient's hand. An article this week looks at NHS walk-in centres and their implications for pharmacy (p305). Leading article (p283).
More EHC trials
Nine community pharmacies in west London are to start supplying emergency hormonal contraception under a patient group direction (p284).
Rosiglitazone
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has recommended that rosiglitazone should be offered as an alternative to injectable insulin for certain type 2 diabetic patients (p288).
Avoiding bites when travelling
The sixth article in our continuing education series on travel medicine focuses on insect bite avoidance as an important method of reducing the risk of contracting some tropical diseases (p298).
Values and pharmacy
In an article this week, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's historian says that more attention should be paid to what pharmacists actually do than to what some people think they ought to do (p308).
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