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Now that the names of the new Privy Council nominees have been announced, together with the name of the academic pharmacist representative from schools of pharmacy in Great Britain, the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society is likely to have a different take on matters. Including the pharmacists and the pharmacy technicians elected to Council for the first time, the academic pharmacist and the Privy Council nominees, there will be 18 new faces in the Council chamber
News & Features 571-578
News summary, including R&D news 571-577
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Pharmacy after the general election 578
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Pharmacists and pharmacy organisations will be wondering what the future holds for them now that there is a new Government, a new ministerial team responsible for health and a new batch of MPs. Michael Thompson investigates
Products PDF (75K) 579
• Products Text 579
Lloydspharmacy wins diabetes award Text 579
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• Recalls & Drug alerts Text 579
LifeScan blood glucose meters
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Letters PDF (100K) 580-584
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The Society / Birdsgrove House / Reciprocal registration / NAWP / Pharmacy technicians / Community pharmacy / Statutory Committee / Internet sites / Complementary medicine / Pharmacy graduates / RFID pilot / CPD
Vision for pharmacy 585
Vision for pharmacy
Taking medicines review into a mosque 585
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Cultural barriers can limit access to mainstream health care services among patients from ethnic minorities. Tom Moberly met Alia Gilani, a bilingual pharmacist running a medicines review clinic based in a mosque which has helped to overcome these barriers and increase attendance at clinics
Original papers 586-589
Walking a line between health care and sales: the role of the medicines counter assistant 586-589
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By Jonathan Banks, Alison Shaw and Marjorie C. Weiss
Aim — To investigate the role of the medicines
counter assistant in the sale of over-the-counter medicines
Articles 590-592
Complementary medicine
Belief: an amazing healing device 590-592
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Ray Sturgess reviews the evidence for the key role that patients’ beliefs have in the healing process. He argues that belief is the sole explanation for the effectiveness of many complementary therapies and suggests improvements to how pharmacists deal with supplying complementary medicines
Industrial Pharmacists Group insert
Industrial Pharmacists Group
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Meetings 593
Reports
Nucare convention 593
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Onlooker PDF (60K) 594
Loathsome to the eye and dangerous to the lungs Revisiting some of the adventures of Philip Marlowe, as narrated by Raymond Chandler, I was reminded that not long ago smoking cigars and cigarettes was usually accepted without serious criticism. Indeed, in many circles you were seen as a trifle odd if you suggested that the habit was a bad one and that on no account would you descend to sharing it Text
New attempt to trace human history and patterns of migration An article by Elizabeth Pennisi in Science for 15 April, describes an enterprising programme of research designed to collect samples of DNA and use them to reveal the mysterious patterns of migration since humans emerged Text
Mixing religious conviction with politics has become a risky business An editorial in the 8 April issue of Science draws timely attention to a problem which is affecting certain cultural aspects of society in Europe and the US. For the past two centuries scepticism, with a growing confidence in the findings of science and rational modes of thought, has dominated the way in which questions of life and death, and why the universe is as it seems to be, are faced and answered Text
The Society PDF (230K) 595-598
• Council complete as Privy Council appoints lay members and academic pharmacist named Text 595
• Birdsgrove House — the current situation explained Text 596
• New face on Scottish Executive Text 596
• Society registers 1,000th technician Text 596
• Prescribing consultation deadline looms Text 596
• Accounts published on Society’s website Text 596
Official notices 2001
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• Scottish AGM Text 597
• Scottish Executive Election Result 2005 Text 597
Obituaries & tributes Text 598
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• Future events Text 579
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Awards Text
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Corrections Text 579
Vitalux Plus
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Diabetes funding
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