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One of the design innovations for The Journal this year is to be the regular use of the centre four-page section as a “pull-out”. Although this device has been used in the past on an ad hoc basis — for Royal Pharmaceutical Society consultations and Prescribing & Medicines Management, for example — there will be relatively few occasions in 2005 when those four-pages will not be designed to be detachable
Welcome aboard! 36
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We would like to add to the welcome expressed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to the four pharmacy technicians who were the first to register earlier this week. Although it is not known how many pharmacy technicians will register this year and next (registration will not be mandatory until 2007), pharmacy technicians will quickly be able to make their voices heard because two of the places on the reformed Council have been reserved for them
News & Features 37-45
News summary, including R&D 37-43
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Looking into the pharmaceutical future 44-45
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With the pharmaceutical industry facing increasing difficulties developing new treatments, Tom Moberly looks at changes in drug discovery processes and the impact that medicines currently in development are likely to have on the fortunes of companies
POEMs 45
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Smoking increases the risk of infection 45
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Products PDF (110K) 46-47
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• Products Text 46-47
• Drug tariff updates Text 46
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Broad Spectrum 48
Medical statisticians are useful to know 48
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By Frank Leach and Brian Faragher
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Fellowship of the Society / Overseas pharmacists / The Society / Retention fee / CPD / PECs / Drug donations / Dispensing errors / Dispensing / Morphine sulphate / Near patient testing / Slimming clubs / New contract / The Journal
Articles 56-57
New framework for analysing practice? 56-57
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In this article, Darrin Baines and Catherine Hale propose a new theoretical framework for analysing pharmacy practice, based on a new branch of social sciences known as new institutional economics
Meetings 58-59
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Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group 58-59
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A modest saint invoked to relieve chills and fevers On 21 January Saint Agnes, who ranks as the patron saint of young virgins, is celebrated. She was born in Rome in the year 291 and was martyred during the Diocletian persecution of 304, at the early age of 13 Text
How ordinary people can turn into torturers Recent reports of violence and even deliberate torture associated with American guards and Iraqi prisoners have drawn attention to the phenomenon of torture of one human being by another. The psychological and cultural aspects of this problem have been described by psychologists and neuroscientists in Science for 26 November 2004 Text
A broader approach to the problem of childhood depression It has been suggested that unhappiness among children is on the increase. But it is also suggested that the tendency to label the condition as depression, and therefore as something that can be counteracted by the prescribing of antidepressant drugs, is worthy of criticism Text
Continuing Professional Development
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Clinical developments in 2004 61-64
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Medicines are at the core of pharmacy practice and it is important that pharmacists, so often referred to as drug experts, keep abreast of developments. But so much happens in the world of pharmacy that it can be easy to overlook new developments. Here is a chance to catch up: in our first CPD article of the year, Harriet Adcock looks back at the medicines launched during 2004 and considers some of the more significant clinical developments of the past year
The Society PDF (190K) 65-68
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• Invitation to apply for 2005 research awards Text 65
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• Society meetings Text 67-68
Risk management of injectable therapy (April 14)
Legislative changes affecting the QP (February 15)
Stability testing of pharmaceuticals (February 21-23)
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