Leading
Articles PDF (50K) 428
Guided by or dictated to 428
Should a code of ethics be a rulebook to be followed punctiliously or should
it be a set of principles that offer guidance but do not provide answers?
The current Code of Ethics, as produced by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society,
is mostly in the former camp
News & Features 429-436
News summary (including R&D) 429-436
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Products PDF (65K) 437
Broad Spectrum 438
Concordance: lessons from practice 438
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By Miranda Leontowitsch, Fiona Stevenson, Irwin Nazareth and Catherine Duggan
Letters PDF (120K) 439-444
North East London LPC / Continuing education / Adverse
effects / Drug interactions / Emergency supplies / Reciprocity / Pharmacists
in the media / Registration examination / The profession / The Society / Onlooker
Agenda for 2005 445-446
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Why the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Code of Ethics is due for review 445-446
Zuzana Deans and Angus Dawson discuss the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Code
of Ethics and the role it currently plays in the practice of pharmacy, and draw
from their research to identify issues and pose questions that relate to it now
and in the future
Articles 447
Alternative cancer cures are a myth 447
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In the 14th article in a series on complementary medicine, Edzard Ernst
explains why there will never be an alternative cure for cancer
Meetings 448-450
Unichem convention 448-9
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Proprietary Association of Great Britain 450
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Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) 451-454
Scars: how pharmacists can help 451-454
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British
Pharmaceutical Conference 455-463
Self-management can empower patients and improve health care 455-456
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Liberating talent and skills of the workforce is key to good
patient care 456-457
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Conference on camera 458-459
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Evolution in diabetes management 460
Services should be developed alongside those of other professions 460
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How to tackle the problem of obesity 461
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How concerned should we be about the spectre of antibiotic resistance? 462
Is industry investment diluting the fruits of academic research? 462
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Transporter-enzyme interplay predicts drug absorption and disposition 463
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Onlooker PDF (130K) 464
Record-keeping with a knotted string The quipu has
long posed a puzzle to archaeologists. The device in question — its
name being a Quechua word signifying a knot — was a length of cord
composed of threads of various colours tied into a complex system of knots
and used for record-keeping
Biological basis of consciousness
There is an intriguing discussion in Science for 1 July concerning
the true nature of consciousness, a topic that was once the exclusive concern
of philosophers but is now treated scientifically and is amenable to experiment
Imagination is the master of art
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art, as in life, remarked
Joseph Conrad in 1912. Wordsworth, in ‘The prelude’ (1850),
waxed even more enthusiastic in defining imagination as “Reason in
her most exalted mood”
The Society PDF (575K) 465-468
Reviewing the Code of Ethics for Pharmacists and the Code of Ethics
for Pharmacy Technicians: a call for ideas 466+2C
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