Leading Articles 266 |
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Tackling the tickle 266
For the first time UK guidelines for the
treatment of cough have been produced by the British Thoracic Society,
which has calculated that acute cough costs the British economy about £1bn
a year
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Innovations and BPC 2006 266
Normally, the main summer holiday period comes to an end and pharmacists have time to draw breath before setting off for the British Pharmaceutical Conference
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News & Features 267-272 |
News summary 267-271
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Lead stories
-More enhanced service specifications planned as data reveal slow uptake
by primary care bodies
-Out-of-hours access to patient information comes a step closer in
Scotland
-BTS publishes cough management guidance
-Boots to launch £25 chlamydia test in England and Wales
-Unregulated competition will hurt pharmacy, commission is told
-Consultation on e-prescribing for NHS in England
-DoH broadens obesity support
-Further data oppose inhaled steroids in child wheeze
Have your say on the new contract 272
This week, 1,000 community pharmacists in England and Wales are being given their chance to describe how the new community pharmacy contract has affected them and to explain where it is working and where it is not. Tom Moberly reports
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Products 273 |
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Products 273
-SPC changes
-Counter products
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Announcements 273
-Clinical pharmacy graduates
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Letters 274-276 |
-Asthma
-Homoeopathy
-Controlled drugs
-Compliance aids
-MURs
-Safety
-Retention fees
-The Society
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Articles 277-284,
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Keeping cancer at bay the natural way 277-284
Jonathan Hill, Zoey Hanstock and Brian Lockwood discuss nutraceuticals that appear promising in the prevention and treatment of cancer
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An opportune time to reappraise the future of the independent sector 289-290
In this article, Allen Tweedie discusses the Independent Pharmacy Federation's view on the Department of Health consultation on “Control of entry system” for NHS pharmaceutical contractors and the opportunity this consultation presents for the independent sector
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Continuing Professional Development
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Recent articles
Promoting self care of joint pain 285-288
Joint pain is a common condition and pharmacists are ideally placed to provide advice to patients on managing the condition. John Dickson discusses joint pain, its causes, cases for referral and treatments available
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Meetings 291-293 |
Reports index
World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Diseases know no boundaries; neither should medicine or pharmaceutical care 291-293
International and interprofessional collaboration, workforce issues, HIV/AIDS, avian influenza and counterfeit medicines were the themes of the valedictory address of the outgoing president of the International Pharmaceutical Federation when he addressed the 66th FIP congress, which was the first to be held in Latin America. Graeme Smith reports
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Onlooker 294 |
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A healthy diet beats dietary supplements 294
An article on the myths attached for decades to some of the antioxidant supplements consumed in efforts to maintain good health appears in the 5 August issue of New Scientist
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 Life of the hunter-gatherer: nasty and brutish but not necessarily short 294
At the annual meeting of the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society, held in Philadelphia early in June, it was suggested that, although life may have been nasty and brutish for our prehistoric ancestors, it may often have been longer than we have hitherto supposed
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Should children participate in clinical trials? 294
An editorial published in the 17 June issue of The Lancet commends the recent draft amendments to EU legislation on medicines for children legislation that paves the way for more trials for paediatric prescribing
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Essential human freedoms 294
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What is this culture? 294
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Census finds high job satisfaction 295
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Timetable of Society consultations for which members' input is sought 295
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Medicines, Ethics and Practice: a guide for pharmacists
MEP page
September 2006 amendments 296
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Official notices 2001
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Statutory Committee decision 296
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Erasure from the Register on the direction of the Statutory Committee 296
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Obituaries & tributes 296
Obituaries
-Fox
Tributes
-Fox
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Future events 273
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Branch meetings 296
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Resources 273
-Bowel health
-Non-specific urethritis
-Preventing diabetes
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