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The Pharmaceutical Journal, June 23, 2001

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Comment    
   An Onlooker’s Notebook
   Leading Article
     Trust the trusts

   Broad Spectrum
     Why strength of a medicine is not the sume of its parts and needs regulation

   Letters to the Editor

News   
   News
   Clinical Pharmacy
   Business

   News Features
     Cracking down on violence in the NHS — will pharmacy benefit?
     Rabies — time to enforce airport protocols

The Society   
   News
   Scottish News

Original Papers   
   An exploration of the potential impact of primary care groups on pharmaceutical practice
   »(PDF*, 55K)

Forum   
   Nucare
   North & East Devon Health Authority
   Association of the European Self-Medication Industry

Notice-board
   Branch meetings
   Future events
   Conferences
and lots more

Products & Recalls


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Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover photograph illustrates a News Feature article which examines the relevance to community pharmacy of the Government’s crackdown on violence in the NHS.

Stroke prevention
A regimen of perindopril given alone or in combination with the diuretic indapamide reduces the risk of recurrent stroke irrespective of whether blood pressure is raised or not, a new study shows.

Rabies immunisation
United Kingdom protocols for the provision of post-bite rabies immunisation to travellers may be failing, according to a News Feature article this week.

Impact of PCGs
The potential impact of primary care groups on pharmaceutical practice is explored in an original paper this week.

Society sells Medicines Testing Laboratory
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is to dispose of its Medicines Testing Laboratory in a cash and share deal worth more than half a million pounds.


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