The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 pp771-800 No 7327
27 November 2004

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Leading Article PDF (45K)   772

Training for tomorrow 772
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Pharmacy training needs to be re-examined. With a substantial expansion in new roles in recent years, the profession needs to consider whether its current training is producing people, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level,with the appropriate skills to meet the requirements that these new pharmacy roles bring


News & Features   773-780

News summary  773-778
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What makes pharmacists competent? 779-780
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What are the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviour that pharmacists will need in the future? The answers lie in a report published this week by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Clare Bellingham reports


Products PDF (55K)   781

• Products Text 781

• Drug tariff updates Text

• Recalls & Drug alerts Text


Broad Spectrum   782

“Us” and “them” — mind the gap! 782
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By Malcolm E. Brown


Letters PDF (90K)  783-785 

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Registration exam / Pharmacist prescribing / Agenda for change / New contract / Retention fees / Statins / Levothyroxine / The Journal


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   786-788
Recent articles

Peri-operative medication
Post-operative nausea and vomiting   786-788
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In the seventh article of a series on peri-operative care, Mohamed H. Rahman and Jane Beattie give an overview of the causes and risk factors, and the pharmacological management of post-operative nausea and vomiting


Original papers   789-792

Developing and validating a competency framework for advanced pharmacy practice 789-792
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By Naomi Meadows, David Webb, Duncan McRobbie, Sotiris Antoniou, Ian Bates and Graham Davies
Aim —To develop and validate an advanced practice competency framework


Articles   793-795

New drug technologies
What role will dendrimer-based drug technology have in the future? 793-794
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In the fifth article in our series looking developments in drug technologies, Jenny Bryan describes how dendrimer nanoparticles are being used to prevent the transmission of HIV and to improve the bioavailability of some drugs

Complementary medicine
Should we use “powerful placebos”? 795
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In this fifth article on complementary medicine, Edzard Ernst debates the value of the placebo effect


Onlooker PDF (90K)   796

So how do placebos work? An editorial in the BMJ for 23 October offers an interesting discussion about placebos, whether they work in clinical practice, and how they work. And in this issue of The Journal Edzard Ernst debates the ethical issues of using a biologically inert or irrelevant substance in a deliberate therapeutic activity. Yet placebos are being used, sometimes to respond to a patient’s unreasonable demand for a medicine, sometimes to allay a patient’s worry, for possible analgesic or tranquillising effects or even as a diagnostic tool Text

Foundation creams used by Romans in London An intriguing account by a group of chemists from Bristol and London is published in Nature for 4 November. It concerns the manufacture of a cosmetic face cream discovered during archaeological excavations in a Roman temple precinct in London. A small tin canister was unearthed, complete with its lid and contents, a most unusual discovery Text

Conservation of our heritage: physicists and biologists united Sculptures and other elements of our heritage in Europe are constantly subject to the ravages of pollution, natural decay processes and even the close interest of tourists. It now seems that funding for their conservation is getting harder to come by Text

And I quote… Human rights/Time to spare Text


The Society PDF (220K)   797-800

•  Parliamentary Fund donors asked how to redeploy their contributions Text 797

•  New season of inspectors’ presentations for preregistration trainees Text 797

Statutory Committee Reports
• Reprimand after dispensing wart ointment in error for nasal cream Text 798
• Adjournment in case arising from a succession of dispensing errors Text 798
• Application for restoration is adjourned for a second time Text 798

Official notices 2001 to present
• Statutory Committee inquiries Text 799
• Erasure from Register on direction of Statutory Committee Text 799
• Parliamentary Fund: return of contributions Text 799


Diary Text

• Branch meetings Text 800

• Society meetings Text

• Future events Text 781

• Conferences Text

• Reunions Text


Awards Text

Charitable requests Text

Corrections Text 781
    Castle Hill Hospital / George Gannon

Resources Text 781
    World AIDS day

Wants Text