Leading
Articles [PDF
(40K)] 460
Winners and losers [Text] 460
News & Features 461-471
News [Text]
[PDF
(420K)] 461-468
• SARS — a worldwide threat [Text]
[PDF (65K)] 469
• Service improvements continue as the NSF
for Older People enters third year [Text]
[PDF (50K)] 470-471
Products [PDF (60K)] 472-473
• Products [Text] 472-473
• Announcements [Text] 473
• Recalls [Text]
Broad Spectrum 474
Since the Government has banned kava because of a tenuous link
with liver disease,
it should ban tobacco, too [Text]
[PDF (40K)] 474
Letters [Text]
[PDF (60K)] 475-478
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 479-481
CPD summary page
Vitiligo
(2) sun protection and skin camouflage [PDF (170K)] 479-481
Original Papers 482-484
The formulation, analysis and stability of glyceryl trinitrate in
non-aqueous pharmaceutical
formulations [PDF (70K)] 482-484
Book reviews [PDF (45K)] 485
• Pharmaceutical chemistry: therapeutic aspects of biomolecules
[Text] 485
• Problems in pediatric drug therapy [Text] 485
• Palliative care formulary [Text] 485
Onlooker [Text]
[PDF (50K)] 486
The path to disaster / Fat of the land / The right attitude 486
The Society [PDF (300K)] 487-496
News
• Eighteen seek election to the Council as the single
transferable vote system
is dropped [Text] 487
• £25,000 made available for branch meetings
on Charter [Text] 487
Council election
Council election candidates' "Who's who" [PDF (145K)] 488-492
Law and Ethics Bulletin
Care needed when dispensing chloramphenicol eye or ear drops
[Text] 493
MEP: Medicines, ethics and practice
April cumulative list of amendments [Text] 493
Official notices
• Welsh Executive election [Text] 493
• Scottish Department Executive election [Text] 493
Statutory Committee [Text]
• Striking-off for leaving lay staff in charge 494
• Committee refuses forger's application for restoration 494
• Reprimand for pharmacist who neglected CD register 495
• No restoration after theft, fraud and driving offences 495
Diary
• Branch meetings [Text]
• Society meetings [Text]
• Future events [Text]
• Conferences [Text]
• Reunions [Text] |
Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture (by Christopher Icha) draws attention to the publication
of the biographical details of the 18 candidates who are contesting this year’s election
of seven members to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council. The election will be the
first to revert to the “first past the post” system (PDF 145K)
Deregulation
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, is in
favour of the Office of Fair Trading’s
recommendation to deregulate pharmacy but is not prepared to risk a Cabinet split on the issue
Worldwide threat of SARS
Over 1,800 cases and 64 deaths from severe acute respiratory distress syndrome have been reported
from 15 countries. In a news feature,
Lin-Nam Wang reports on current recommendations regarding the disease
NSF for Older People
In a news feature, Harriet Adcock
reports on progress made since the National Service Framework for Older People was published
two years ago
Vitiligo
Part 2 of our continuing professional development article on vitiligo looks at what advice pharmacists
can give to patients regarding sun protection and camouflage (PDF 170K)
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