The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 pp347-378 No 7342
26 March 2005

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Leading Articles PDF (40K)   348

Let pharmacy be heard! 348
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What is going on in the Department of Health? The latest review of the regulation of health professions announced last week, and encompassing all the professions except medicine, seems designed to be ineffective even before it has started work. The three longer-established professional regulators, viz, pharmacy, dentistry and optometry, are excluded from the committee advising the review, save for places for the respective departmental chief officers for pharmacy and dentistry

Wait and see 348
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Some pharmacists will no doubt want to comment on the outcome of the Statutory Committee inquiry into the case of Ghislaine Brant. However, we will not be publishing any letters while the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence is considering the case


News & Features   349-356

News summary  349-354
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Contract 2005
One week before the contract goes live 355-356
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In the first of a series of articles following contractors as they implement the new community pharmacy contract through the year, Tom Moberly looks at how they have coped with the changes needed so far and the problems they have had to overcome in the run-up to the contract going live on 1 April


POEMs    352
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Venlafaxine modestly improves postmenopausal vasomotor symptoms 352
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Products PDF (45K)   357

• Announcements Text 357
• Products Text 357

• Drug tariff updates Text

• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 357
    Durex condoms


Broad Spectrum   358

Are atypical antipsychotics always better than traditional typical ones? 358
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By Jonathan Bland


Letters PDF (80K)  359-362 

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Council election / The profession / Community pharmacy / Revalidation / The Society / Prescription charges


Articles   363-364, 369-370

Diversify or die: what long-term future for the pharmaceutical industry? 363-364
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Independent consultant Nick Hutton says that large pharmaceutical companies that cannot diversify will experience a slow decline

Pharmacy around the world
Pharmacy practice overseas: bringing medicines information to Uganda 369
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Stephen Ward has been working as a hospital pharmacist in Kampala for the past six months. Here he describes what he hopes to achieve

March FACT: is there an interaction between ginseng and warfarin? 370
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Research published in the March issue of Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies is highlighted by Natalie Lane


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   365-368
Recent articles

Antibacterial therapy
The right drug for the right bug   365-368
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Since the introduction of penicillin into clinical use in the 1940s, antibacterials have saved millions of lives. However, the lengthening shadow of antimicrobial resistance threatens a return to the pre-antibiotic era. In the first of three articles, Hayley Wickens and Paul Wade review the decision-making process for antibacterial therapy and give an overview of the drugs available


Reviews PDF (70K)   371

Development and control of medicines and medical devices: by Robin J. Harman Text 371

The knife man: the extraordinary life and times of John Hunter, the father of modern surgery: by Wendy Moore Text 371

Locum pharmacy: a survival guide: by Pamela Mason Text 371


Onlooker PDF (85K)   372

Lethal malpractice in Asia There is disturbing evidence, reviewed in Nature for 10 March, that a great deal of malpractice in developing countries in Asia is putting people at risk when the medicines they rely upon turn out to be counterfeits that fail to have any effect. As an editorial puts it: “The continent’s pharmacies are awash with fake drugs that contain little or none of the labelled active ingredients.” Text

New threat from excess nitrogen on land and water A news item in Nature for 24 February draws attention to the discussion at a conference held in London recently concerning a new threat to our globe in the shape of nitrogenous fertilisers. It drew its data from a five-year project to map the effects of excess nitrogen on forests, rivers and grasslands, in Britain in particular Text

Big eaters before our time — fascinating facts about our Neanderthal cousins It surprises me to come across references to our extinct Neanderthal cousins almost every month in the scientific journals. They disappeared from the face of the earth some 28,000 years ago, but we are still discovering fascinating facts about them Text

Diabolical definitions Text


The Society PDF (290K)   373-378

•  Society plans to collect members’ e-mail addresses to improve communications Text 373

•  1,600 pharmacists risk removal from register for non-payment of 2005 retention fees Text 373

•  Hospital Pharmacists Group seeks committee election candidates Text 373

•  Council election canvassing Text 373

Statutory Committee Reports
• “No case to answer” ruling for Shipman pharmacist Text 374-375
• Reprimand follows pharmacist’s internet supply dispensing errors Text 376

Official notices 2001 to present
• Hospital Pharmacists Group Committee election Text 377
• Council voting papers Text 377
• Erasure from Register on direction of Statutory Committee Text 377
• Payment of retention fee Text 377

Obituaries & tributes Text 377-378


Diary Text

• Branch meetings Text 378

• Society meetings Text

• Future events Text 357

• Conferences Text 357

• Reunions Text 357
    Heriot-Watt 1955 / VE and VJ day


Awards Text

Charitable requests Text

Corrections Text 357
    Avastin

Resources Text 357
    Counterfeit medicines / Dystonia leaflets / TB materials / Epilepsy leaflets

Wants Text 357
    Dermatology formulary / Scout Jamboree