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In some circles, pharmacy is the flavour of the month. New universities, and those that have established medical and medicine-related departments in the past few years, are queuing up to provide undergraduate courses in pharmacy. Earlier this week, Kingston University was given the go ahead to open its doors to students of pharmacy in September, joining Medway and East Anglia, both recently established departments, which are either on the brink of taking in students or have done so in the past 12 months
News & Features 531-538
News summary 531-536
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As the European Union expands, what are the implications for pharmacy? 537-538
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On May 1, the EU will expand from its current membership of 15 countries to 25 countries. Pamela Mason examines the diversity in health, health systems and pharmacy practice in the enlarged union
Products PDF (55K) 539
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SMA Wysoy
Broad Spectrum 540
Rising to the challenges of the future 540
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By Allan Karr
Letters PDF (80K) 541-543
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Indemnity insurance / CPD / Drug nomenclature / NHS pension scheme / Ampoule labelling / The profession / Electronic prescribing / Canvassing / The Society
Off the record 543
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Keeping an open mind 543
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Over 100 years ago we could have been peddling snake oil. My “Wellcome’s pharmacists diary”, dated 1912, indicates that just before the 1914–18 war we would have been handling such niceties as “lead and opium lotion” or “pills with arsenic and strychnine”
Continuing Professional Development
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Recent articles
Clinical testing series
Tests on specimens of urine or stools 544-546
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In this fourth article in a series on clinical testing, Pamela Mason focuses on common urine and faecal tests that pharmacists may encounter
Original papers 547-551
An evaluation of a clinic-based pharmacist and a medicines home delivery service
from a transplant outpatient department 547-551
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By Andrew Prowse and David Scott
Aim — To investigate the impact of a clinic-based
pharmacist on prescribing and to evaluate patient and staff perceptions. To assess
patients’ views on the introduction of a medicines delivery service
Onlooker PDF (70K) 552
Remembering an early contributor to The Journal One century ago, on 6 May 1904, the chemist Alexander William Williamson died at his retirement home at High Pitfold, Shottermill, Haslemere Text
Energy going to waste Understanding the concept of noise is not as simple as it sounds. It has been defined as “sound of any kind” and as “overloud or excessive sound”. Our word is derived from the French noise, meaning argument or quarrel, and further back from Latin noxa, that which hurts, and nausea, disgust Text
Doubts about the desirability of devices for detecting deceit Using clever lie-spotting devices to detect deceivers has for many years raised the temperature of debate. The notorious polygraph, which has long obsessed security agencies in the US, has been subject to what Nature calls “withering criticism” and the data it provides are now banned as evidence in many US states, as elsewhere in the world Text
The Society PDF (210K) 553-556
• Practice research seminar A seminar held at the
Society’s headquarters has highlighted the work of researchers whose pharmacy
practice research has been funded by a trust supported by the Society Text 553
• Transcript from April Council meeting now available on Society's website A transcript of the open sessions of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s April Council meeting (held on 30 and 31 March) is now available to download from the Council page within the “About the Society” section of the Society’s website Text 553
• Library helps BBC investigation Staff of the Society’s
library staff have helped a BBC investigation into the high level of arsenic
found in a strand of hair from King George III Text 553
• Annual review for 2003 The Society’s “Annual
Review 2003”, distributed with The Journal this week, looks back at the
Society’s work during a year of change Text 554
Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists 554
May 2004 amendments Text
Obituaries & tributes Text 555
Official notices 2001
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