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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 268 No 7184
9 February 2002

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Leading Article   
   Where there's money, there's a way [more]
   Is NICE now in limbo? [more]

News & Features   
   News (including news in brief)

   Pharmacy strategy launched in Scotland [more]
   Keeping up with the cheats: novel pharmaceuticals and drugs in sport [more]

Broad Spectrum   
   Life for pharmacists was grimmer in the past; let us grab today's opportunities [more]

Letters   
   Letters to the Editor

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   
   Headache: (2) Non-migraine headache
   »(PDF*, 60K)

Meetings   
   Developing future pharmacy services [more]

Original papers   
   Misuse of over-the-counter medicines: a survey of community pharmacies in a South Wales health authority
   »(PDF*, 70K)

Articles   
   Pharmacists as patients: Living with ...
   A cardiac pacemaker
   Cervical dystonia
   Schizophrenia
   Warfarin and diuretics

Onlooker

The Society   
   News
   Obituaries & Tributes
   Committee proceedings
   MEP amendments
   Border Region meeting
   Derby branch dinner
   Hospital Pharmacists group

   Official Notices
   Council and auditors election 2002 [more]
   Retiring Council members and auditors [more]
   Council election procedure [more]
   Commonwealth Jubilee Travel Fellowship [more]

Notice-board
   Branch meetings
   Future events
   Conferences
and more

Products


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Front Cover Picture
This week's front cover picture (by Christopher Icha) illustrates a news feature which looks at the newly launched strategy for pharmaceutical care in Scotland.
See also Leading article
News

MMR vaccine
Research into a link between the measles virus and gut abnormalities in children with autism does not implicate the MMR vaccine.

Multiple sclerosis drugs to be paid for by the NHS
Health authorities are to pay for beta interferon and glatiramer acetate for some MS patients despite a National Institute for Clinical Excellence decision not to recommend their use.
See Leading article.

Drugs in sport
The 2002 Winter Olympics start this week. In a news feature Jonathan Buisson investigates new pharmaceutical products which may evade the drug testers' net.

OTC drug misuse
Research from South Wales suggests that there is a widespread over-the-counter medicine misuse problem in the United Kingdom and a need for standardised policies focussing on particular OTC products.

Pharmacists as patients
Pharmacists describe, in their own words, what it is like to take a medicine for life.


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