The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 pp427-468 No 7370
8 October 2005

The Pharmaceutical Journal, 8 October 2005

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Scars: how pharmacists can help

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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
PDF (60K)
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
PDF (95K)

Proprietary Association of Great Britain 450
PDF (65K)


Continuing Professional Development (CPD)    451-454

Scars: how pharmacists can help   451-454
PDF (225K)


British Pharmaceutical Conference    455-463

Self-management can empower patients and improve health care 455-456
PDF (170K)

Liberating talent and skills of the workforce is key to good patient care 456-457
PDF (135K)

Conference on camera 458-459
PDF (800K)

Evolution in diabetes management 460
Services should be developed alongside those of other professions 460
PDF (80K)

How to tackle the problem of obesity 461
PDF (90K)

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
PDF (85K)


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
PDF (55K)


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