| Leading
Article [PDF
(40K)]
• Patient packs need attention too [Text]
• Looking good but saying little [Text]
News & Features
News [Text]
[PDF
(400K)]
• What is a pharmacy locum worth and is pay
determined by supply and demand? [Text]
[PDF
(80K)]
• Message about hormone therapy and cardiovascular
risk becoming clearer [Text]
[PDF (55K)]
Broad Spectrum
Selling nature’s remedies — a challenge to professional
credibility [Text]
[PDF
(45K)]
Letters [Text]
[PDF
(75K)]
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CPD summary page
Heart disease
(4) Secondary prevention of heart disease [PDF
(80K)]
Articles
• Childhood malaria — prevention and emergency
self-treatment [Text]
[PDF
(65K)]
• Public autopsy: educational event or barbaric
butchery? [Text]
[PDF
(35K)]
Meetings and Conferences
United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association [PDF
(95K)]
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF
(70K)]
Price of fatigue / The healthy life / Drugs and aboriginals
The Society
[PDF
(80K)]
News
How PDGs have moved on [Text]
Official notices
Statutory Committee decisions [Text]
Notice-board
Branch
meetings
Future
events
Conferences
and more
Products [Text]
[PDF
(75K)]
Announcements [Text]
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Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture (by Christopher Icha) illustrates
a news feature
which asks: “How much is a locum pharmacist worth?”
Blister packs
From next year blister
packs of aspirin, paracetamol and iron will have to conform to the
British Standard for non-reclosable packaging
See also Leading
article
HRT
Researchers say that trials are now showing that hormone replacement therapy
carries cardiovascular risk. A news
feature reports new data on the risks and benefits of HRT and related
treatment
Coronary heart disease
The fourth article in our series on heart disease reviews evidence for
specific therapeutic interventions that have a significant impact on cardiovascular
risk in CHD (PDF
80K)
Malaria in children
An article on
malaria examines the particular risks and issues relating to prevention
and emergency self-treatment of malaria in children
Public autopsy
In the light of last week’s public
autopsy, performed in an art gallery in London, an article offers
a pharmacist’s experience and opinions of the event
| 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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