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Part and parcel of change 494
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Community pharmacists should be smiling soon. According to this week's Agenda for 2004 the one product that they would most like to be available as a pharmacy medicine is chloramphenicol eye-drops and, next week, their dreams will start to come true
News & Features 495-502
News summary 495-501
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Campaigning to improve men's health 502
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Men's health is in a poor state. Next week sees the start of “Pop down your local”, a Developing Patient Partnerships campaign to encourage men to make better use of pharmacies. Clare Bellingham finds out what pharmacists can do to help improve men's health
POEMs 498
POEMs series
Prolotherapy technique is ineffective for treating low back pain 498
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Products PDF (60K) 503
• Products Text 503
• Announcements Text 503
• Drug tariff updates Text 503
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text
Broad Spectrum 504
Pharmacists should focus on what they do best, not be dazzled by new ideas 504
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By Peter Jenkins
Letters PDF (75K) 505-507
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Community pharmacy / CSM / Canvassing / Registration exam / Law and ethics
Agenda for 2004 508-509
Agenda for 2004
Out of the dispensary and into the pharmacy — POM-to-P switching 508-509
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By John Blenkinsopp
Vision for pharmacy 510
Vision for pharmacy
“Pop down your local” for health care 510
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Community pharmacists in Rotherham are involved in an initiative to improve men's health. Debbie Andalo spoke to those involved
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 511-513
Recent articles
Men's health series
Prostatitis, BPH and prostate cancer 511-513
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To help pharmacists prepare for the “Pop down your local” campaign to be launched on 29 April, we have commissioned three articles on men’s health. In this first article, Christine Clark takes a look at various prostate problems and their treatments
Meetings 514-515
Reports
AAH Convention 514-515
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Pharmacy faces many changes in the coming months and these were discussed at the AAH convention this week. Clare Bellingham reports
Reviews PDF (110K) 516-517
Man: 120,000BC to present day, the practical step by step guide to men’s health by Ian Banks Text 516
Pharmacoeconomics by Tom Walley, Alan Haycox and Angela Boland Text 516
Drugs: from discovery to approval by Rick Ng Text 516
The unfolding years: memoirs of a bourgeois childhood by Edward Blackwell Text 516
The Cambridge historical dictionary of disease edited by Kenneth F. Kiple Text 517
Fundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy by Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth Williamson Text 517
ESCOP Monographs: the scientific foundation for herbal medicinal products by the European Scientific Co-operative On Phytotherapy Text 517
Onlooker PDF (80K) 518
New light on preserving old oil paintings An interesting article by Catherine Higgitt of the National Gallery and John Plater of Aberdeen University appears in Chemistry World for April. It discusses the mysterious appearance of tiny white specks and minute patches on the surface of old oil paintings. This offers a challenge to those concerned with the preservation of old masters, since it raises the question whether such inclusions are all part of the painted surface or whether they are a threat to be dealt with Text
Need for a broader outlook on the nature and purpose of education We hear a great deal about the significance of education and its shortcomings. What we do not hear is any convincing conclusions regarding its essential nature and purpose in civilised communities Text
Tackling the tricky problem of antidepressant treatment in childhood There is a discussion in the 8 April issue of the New England Journal of Medicine concerning the rather tricky problem of antidepressant medication of children, from the US National Institute of Mental Health. In Britain, physicians have been warned to avoid the use of paroxetine generally in treating depressed children younger than 18 years. In the US, the Food and Drug Administration has cautioned that paroxetine therapy should not be discontinued abruptly, from fear of severe withdrawal reactions Text
The Society PDF (370K) 519-528
• Council election canvassing The Society has issued a statement in response to members’ concerns about canvassing in the Council election Text 519
• Election booklet printing error The Royal Pharmaceutical
Society has learnt that at least one Society member has received a misprinted
copy of the booklet containing Council election candidates' biographical details
and statements of policy Text 519
• Council's handling of Charter proposal to be raised at AGM The
Royal Pharmaceutical Society's annual general meeting of the members on 12 May
is to be asked to discuss the Council's handling of its new Charter proposals
and members' concerns about the Society's future role Text 519
Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001
to present
• Placing orders with specials manufacturers Text 519
• Welsh Executive launches four new briefing papers Four
new briefing papers have been launched by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's
Welsh Executive to inform pharmacists in Wales about recent developments Text 520
• Welsh Executive newsletter highlights Society's review of
devolution The
spring newsletter published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Welsh Executive
highlights the Society's forthcoming review to ensure that the organisation can
meet the needs of devolution Text 520
• Approval for Society’s accounts The Society’s
honorary auditors have inspected and approved the financial statements for 2003 Text 520
• Candidates answer questions Candidates in the Council
election have answered three questions put to them by The Journal PDF (140K) 521-523
Statutory Committee Reports
• Dispensing of wrong strengths results in reprimand Text 524
• Reprimand for pharmacist after a series of Controlled Drugs errors Text 524
• Refusal to accept warning leads to Statutory Committee appearance Text 525
• Restoration to register granted subject to a number of conditions Text 525
• Pharmacists warned that they risk being struck off if they fail to
keep their CD registers up to date Text 526
• Pharmacist reprimanded for failures in working procedures Text 526
Obituaries & tributes Text 527
Official notices 2001
to present
• Annual general meeting Text 527-528
• Council voting papers Text 528
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 528
• Society meetings Text
• Future events Text 503
• Conferences Text 503
• Reunions Text 503
Robert Gordon University, 1974
Awards Text 503
NPPG/ManMed award
Corrections Text
Resources Text
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