| Leading
Articles
Don't forget about yellow cards [Text]
[PDF
(50K)]
News & Features
News [Text]
[PDF
(240K)]
Standard operating procedures for dispensing: the countdown
begins [Text] [PDF
(35K)]
Broad Spectrum
Embracing ADR reporting could improve pharmacists’
standing [Text]
[PDF
(40K)]
Letters [Text]
[PDF
(50K)]
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CPD summary page
Staff development [PDF
(70K)]
Original papers
The Birmingham community pharmacy repeat dispensing
project [PDF
(75K)]
Articles
The yellow card scheme and the role of pharmacists as
reporters [PDF
(50K)]
Professionalism, integrity and trust on trial in clinical
research [PDF
(70K)]
Zen and the art of achieving excellence in pharmacy
practice [Text]
[PDF
(35K)]
Book reviews [PDF
(45K)]
Drugs of abuse [Text]
Medical errors [Text]
History of medicine [Text]
Pharmaceutical care of older patients [Text]
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF
(45K)]
"Sweet slug-a-bed" / Strange condition / Hazard
on the street / Hopeful note
The Society
News [Text]
Obituaries & tributes [Text]
Statutory committee [Text]
Pharmacy Information Pointers
Medicines requiring storage at low temperature in the
pharmacy [Text]
Official Notices
Wales annual general meeting [Text]
Notice-board
Branch
meetings
Future
events
Conferences
and more
Products [Text]
[PDF
(65K)]
Drug tariff updates [Text]
Labels Update [Text]
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Front Cover Picture
This week's front cover picture (by Christopher Icha) illustrates an article
that examines the role of hospital and community pharmacists as reporters
of suspected adverse drug reactions via the yellow card scheme (PDF
50K)
See also Broad Spectrum
and Leading article
Coronary heart disease
Following the publication of the results of the Heart Protection Study,
there has been a call for
guidelines on the management of coronary heart disease to be changed
New COX-2 inhibitor
Valdecoxib, a new COX-2
inhibitor close to launch, provides similar pain relief to older NSAIDs
but with better gastrointestinal tolerability, according to trials
Standard operating procedures
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society says that standard operating procedures
for the dispensing process must be up and running in all community and
hospital pharmacies from 1 January 2005. Andrew Haynes looks at the reasons
for the SOP requirement and what pharmacists need to do during the
30-month countdown to its introduction
Clinical research in humans
An article this week discusses the professional and moral issues surrounding
clinical research in human subjects (PDF
70K)
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