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Under the influence? 702
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A passing comment at a recent conference on
adverse drug reactions in psychiatric care has raised an interesting
question. Are pharmacists, and other new prescribers, susceptible to
the blandishments of pharmaceutical representatives and others in the
marketing departments of pharmaceutical companies?
Is self-care better care? 702
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Self-care is almost a government mantra — not quite in the league of “choice” but not far off. Helping patients to be self-sufficient is likely to keep them away from their doctors for longer. But does it mean they are fitter?
News & Features 703-710
News summary including R&D 703-709
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Are contractors ready for the contract? 710
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Clare Bellingham reports a Numark audit which shows that pharmacists have much to do before next April if the new contract is approved
Products PDF (80K) 711
• Products Text 711
• Announcements Text 711
• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 711
Bricanyl and Pulmicort inhalers
Broad Spectrum 712
Does the registration examination serve any fair or useful purpose? 712
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By Sultan Dajani
Letters PDF (65K) 713-714
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New contract / Boots the Chemists / Dispensing / MedicinesComplete / The Society / The Journal
Agenda for 2004 715-716
Agenda for 2004
Self-care goes under the microscope 715
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By Harriet Adcock
Welsh responses to devolution review 716
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By Hannah Pike
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 717-719
Recent articles
Peri-operative medication
Drugs used to prevent surgical VTE 717-719
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In the sixth article of a series on peri-operative care, Mohamed H. Rahman and Jane Beattie give an overview of pharmacological prevention of VTE
Articles 720-722
Generic clozapine in schizophrenia: what is all the fuss about? 720-721
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Stephen Bazire and Vicky Burton share experiences of switching to generic clozapine in Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Should we dismiss complementary medicine if evidence tells us to? 722
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In the fourth article on complementary medicine, Edzard Ernst looks at the significance of negative evidence to consumers and pharmacists
Meetings 723-725
Reports
PSNC 723-724
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UKCPA 725
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Onlooker PDF (95K) 726
Second thoughts on DDT? A report in The Lancet for 25 September from Clare Klapp raises the question of how dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) came to fall into disrepute, and how much justification there is to make cautious use of it today. Text
Dress and adornment among Neanderthalers Archaeologists and anthropologists gathered in Gibraltar recently to pursue the intriguing question of the culture enjoyed by our distant cousins, the Neanderthalers, over whom there has been ample argument across the past few decades Text
Fat and feckless in a worrying world According to Rachel Cottam of Croydon, writing in The Lancet for 2 October, we are having to face a complex situation when we look at the growing phenomenon of obesity
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Note of hope “The time is approaching when despotism and superstition, those enormous chains that have so long enfettered mankind, shall be annihilated — when liberated man shall display the mental energies for which he was created…” Text
The Society PDF (220K) 727-730
• David Thurston named Science Chairman for BPC 2006 Text 727
• Nominations sought for 2005 conference science medal Text 727
• Declaration of competence forms: cut-off date soon Text 727
• Simvastatin guidance Text 727
• Information sheet on children’s medicines to be available soon Text 728
• Society to host Food and Drug Administration process analytical technology forum Text 728
• Society’s Shipman response and briefing published Text 728
• Medicines management in Wales under spotlight Text 728
Obituaries & tributes Text 729
Diary Text
• Branch meetings Text 730
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• Future events Text 730
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