The Pharmaceutical Journal,
September 2, 2000

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Comment

An Onlooker's Notebook   318

• Tight grip
• Magnetic magic
• The wider angle

Leading Article   319

• Uncomfortable transition

News   320-322

• NZ society introduces practice certificates based on competence 320
• APS Berk is first PSNC sponsor company 320
• Welsh NHS strategy to emphasise "whole system" approach 321
• NPA website relaunched 321
• Department fails to agree shortages 321
• Pharmalife to provide student service 321
• In brief
  • Numark rebate doubles 321
  • Mawdsley buys POS supplier 321
• Boots produces "generic" pharmacy television advertisements 322
• PIA topslices premiums for pharmacy development fund 322
• Intra-tech enlarges 322

Clinical Pharmacy   323-325

• Do not start HRT in women with coronary artery disease, cardiologist says 323
• HRT slows cognitive decline, study suggests 323
• Increasing obesity may be offsetting the decline in CHD 323
• New method proposed for ciclosporin monitoring in transplant patients 324
• Antibody offers new approach to asthma treatment 324
• Drug side effects mistaken for symptoms of disease 324
• Yellow card reports: around 50 per cent "serious" 325
• Aqueous cream may be "cheap" but is it always appropriate? 325
• DoH renews vaccine reassurance 325
• Dietary advice tips: (9) Osteoporosis 325

The Society   326-327

• Statutory Committee
  • Jersey pharmacist struck off after selling 39,200 cyclizine tablets 326
  • Drink-related offences lead to striking-off order 327
• Law and Ethics Bulletin 327
• 'Medicines, ethics and practice': September amendments 327
• Obituaries 327

Broad Spectrum   328

• Opportunity knocks - pharmacy and local research networks (C. Davis, S. Steel and C. Duggan) 328

Letters to the Editor   329-332

• Boots - Dutch withdrawal 329
• Inhalers - Withdrawal notice 329
• Pharmacy overseas - Working in New Zealand 329
• The Society - Transparency and accountability 330
• Locums - Travelling expenses 330
• Drugs in breast milk - Predicting the risk of toxicity 330
• Anticoagulant monitoring - Self-management versus clinic management 331
• Emergency contraception - Just in case 332
• Statutory Committee - Hallmark 332
• Blister packaging - Help is at hand 332
• Thyroid disease - Large eyes 332
• Community pharmacy - Updating values 332

International   333-336

• Pharmacy World Congress
  • Health, wealth and biotechnology 333-334
  • The environment of practice 335-336

Forum   337-338

• International Pharmaceutical Students Federation 337-338

Articles   339-340

• A return ticket to Siberia (P. Mason) 339-340

Original papers   341-344

• The contribution of the intensive care pharmacist in the United Kingdom (A. Timmins) 341-344

Products   345

• Nocutil nasal spray 345
• Moraxen suppository 345
• Oilatum shampoo 345
• Supradyn Recharge 345
• Health information books 345
• Eczema information line 345
• Nitlotion 345
• Self-Care Products 345
• Pain website 345
• Pampers Sensitive wipes 345

Notice-Board   346

• Diary 346
• Future events 346
• Appointments 346
• About people 346
• Personal 346
• Senior pharmacists 346

Front Cover Picture

This week's front cover photograph shows a courtyard of the Hofburg in Vienna, the host city for the Pharmacy World Congress this week. Our congress coverage begins with reports of the opening session and a plenary session on the environment of pharmacy practice (p333).

Competence-based practice in New Zealand

A system of competence-based accreditation is to be introduced for practising pharmacists in New Zealand (p320).

Diet and osteoporosis

The ninth article in our series of dietary advice tips looks at nutritional information for those at risk of osteoporosis (p325).

IPSF meets in San Salvador

Counterfeit medicines and pharmacy education in developing nations were among topics considered at the recent International Pharmaceutical Students Federation annual congress, held in San Salvador (p337).

Pharmacy in Siberia

A train journey into Siberia, with medical care provided by an on-board doctor and station platform pharmacy kiosks, is described in an article this week (p339).

Intensive care

A paper this weeks investigates the contribution of pharmacists to intensive care units (p341).