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The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7214
7 September 2002

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Leading Articles [PDF (50K)]   
   • Difficult doses [Text]
   • Will advertising do the trick? [Text]


News & Features   
   News [Text] [PDF (440K)]

   New guidance sets upper safety limits for vitamin and mineral supplements [Text] [PDF (70K)]

   Pharmacist picked to lead influential medicines strategy group in Wales [Text] [PDF (65K)]


Broad Spectrum   
   Why pharmacists live in a risky world [Text] [PDF (40K)]


Letters [Text] [PDF (65K)]   


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   
   CPD summary page

   Join The Journal's second CPD pilot [Text] [PDF (50K)]

   Heart disease
   (1) Chronic heart failure [PDF (75K)]


Articles   xx
   Consent and confidentiality — legal implications of electronic transmission of prescriptions [PDF (65K)]


Meetings and Conferences   
   World Congresson Pain [PDF (50K)]
   World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences [Text] [PDF (225K)]


British Pharmaceutical Conference 2002   
   New Conference information [Text] [PDF (60K)]


Onlooker [Text] [PDF (55K)]   
   Truth in question / Bedtime beverage / Centre of controversy


The Society [PDF (140K)]   

   News
   DoH advertises lay member vacancy on Society Council [Text]

   Society to run safe medicines session at BA Festival of Science [Text]

   Society appoints new keeper for museum collections [Text]

   Registration application granted after inquiry [Text]

   "Pointless" forgery leads to suspended registration [Text]

   Survey results
   Pharmacists' views on how Council members might be selected and elected [Text]

   Statutory Committee [Text]
   • "Wholly unsatisfactory" Viagra transactions lead to striking-off
   • Reprimands for pharmacists who had "taken on too much"

   Medicines, ethics and practice
   September list of amendments [Text]

   Modernisation programme
   Questionnaire: Who should be eligible to serve on Council and for how long? [survey]

   Obituaries & tributes [Text]


Notice-board
   Branch meetings
   Future events
   Conferences
and more

   Products [Text] [PDF (60K)]

   Announcements [Text]


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Front Cover Picture

This week’s front cover picture illustrates a news feature that looks at the implications of a draft document proposing maximum levels of intake of vitamins and minerals sold as food supplements

Paediatric analgesia
Children may be receiving inadequate post-operative pain relief, suggest researchers
See also Leading article

Medicines strategy group
In a news feature, Zoë Gross interviews Professor Roger Walker, newly appointed chairman of a group set up in Wales to advise the Welsh Health Minister on strategic medicines management and prescribing issues

Chronic heart failure
The first article in our continuing professional development series on heart disease focuses on the management of chronic heart failure (PDF 75K)

Electronic transmission of prescriptions
An article this week discusses, from pharmaceutical and legal viewpoints, issues surrounding the electronic transmission of prescriptions (PDF 65K)

FIP
Reports from the 62nd Congress of the International Pharmaceutical Federation, which took place in Nice this week, begin here


The "Broad Spectrum" feature is open to any writer.

Contributions of around 1,200 words, commenting on topics of current interest, should be sent to managing editor Graeme Smith (graeme.smith@pharmj.org.uk) for consideration.


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