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Leading Article PDF (55K) 194
World wide worry 194
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Although most people would say that they have benefited from the existence of the world wide web, there are many potentially dangerous drawbacks to it. Among them is the ease with which prescription-only medicines can be obtained through it — an issue recently highlighted by the death of a student who was able to buy hundreds of painkillers, tranquillisers and antipsychotics online for his own use
News & Features 195-202
News summary 195-201
Text PDF (400K)
Buying medicines on the world wide web: what is legal and what is not? 202
Text PDF (50K)
What controls are there over medicine sales over the internet? Michael Thompson investigates
Products PDF (70K) 203
• Products Text 203
• Announcements Text 203
• Drug tariff updates Text
• Recalls Text 203
Letters PDF (75K) 204-205
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Sign language / Tablet crushing / CPD / Community pharmacy
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Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 206-208
Recent articles
Insulin therapy by continuous subcutaneous infusion 206-208
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By Colin Deeney, MSc, MRPharmS
This article discusses an established delivery option for insulin therapy: continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion pumps
Original Papers 209-213
An examination of the risk management issues in the
handling at home of
over-the-counter medicines purchased for children 209-213
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By Sharon Conroy, BPharm, MRPharmS, Jacqueline Collier, PhD, RGN, Nicola Birchley, BA, RN(Child)Dip, Karen Neil, PhD, MRPharmS, Sarah Rodgers, BSc, John McIntyre, MB, ChB, MRCP,
Imti Choonara, MD, FRCPCH, and Anthony Avery, MB, ChB, MRCGP
Aim: To examine how over-the-counter medicines for
children are handled in the home and identify any potential risks associated
with their use
Articles 214-215
A hospital-based integrated medicines management model 214-215
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By Glenda F. Fleming PhD, Anita Hogg BSc, Alison Woods, Michael G. Scott PhD, and James C. McElnay, PhD
This article outlines a model that was developed in Northern Ireland to
provide a comprehensive, hospital-based medicines management service
Onlooker PDF (70K) 216
Science and industry At a conference held in Washington last month, sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, much disquiet was expressed over the growing problem of the interference of powerful industries with the publication in journals of results of scientific research which run counter to what the industry wishes to portray Text
Fags in the flicks I have to admit that the sight of someone striding about with a cigarette drooping from the lips, or holding a smoking cigarette in the air, revolts me. It is a stupid but at the same time arrogant gesture Text
Let me finish Rhetoric is defined as the art of making speeches Text
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Medicines, ethics and
practice
Up-to-date guidance on the legal status
of thousands of human medicines is now available from
a searchable live database on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's website. |
The Society PDF (170K) 217-222
August Council meeting Text
• Society to seek broader powers to regulate retail pharmacy premises Text 217-218
• Stakeholders' interests Text 218
• The inspectorate Text 218
• Privy Council involvement in Society appointments Text 218
• Dispensing errors Text 218
• Methods of payment for retention and premises fees Text 218-219
• Grandparent clause criteria for dispensing assistants' training Text 219
• Staff Pension Fund Trustees Text 219
• "Ask about medicines week" Text 219-220
• Statutory fees for 2004 Text 220
News
• Most fees set to rise by 5 per cent Text 220
• First supplementary prescribing programme given accreditation Text 220
Official notices 2001
to present
• Alterations to the Byelaws: Statutory fees Text 222
• Erasures from Register for non-payment of fees Text 222
Diary Text
• Branch meetings
• Society meetings 222
• Future events 203
• Conferences
• Reunions 203 |
Front Cover Picture
This week’s front cover picture illustrates our news
feature, in
which Michael Thompson investigates what controls exist over medicine sales
on the internet
Hot weather
The recent hot weather poses no
significant risk to the stability of
medicines
Insulin therapy
An article in our continuing professional development section discusses
administration of insulin via continuous subcutaneous infusion pumps
(PDF 65K)
OTC medicines purchased for children
Research from Derbyshire identifies a number of risks involved in the
use of over-the-counter medicines in children and suggests an important
role for pharmacists in educating parents (PDF 100K)
Medicines management
A model that was developed to provide a comprehensive, hospital-based
medicines management service is outlined in an article (PDF 75K)
Recalls
Baxter Healthcare has recalled a number of batches of sodium
chloride 0.9 per cent intravenous infusion BP and Janssen-Cilag has recalled
a number of batches of Eprex (epoetin
alfa) solution for injection prefilled syringes
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