The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp297-322 No 7417
9 September 2006

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Leading Articles   298

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We all could do better 298
Two documents published at the British Pharmaceutical Conference held in Manchester earlier this week have inter-related themes — although this was not acknowledged at the time
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To split or not to split? 298
Whether or not the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has to split in order to separate its regulatory functions from its professional leadership role was raised at the British Pharmaceutical Conference
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News & Features   299-304

News summary  299-303
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Lead stories
-Minister launches national framework to support establishment of pharmacists with special interests
-Support for closer working with GPs to manage long-term conditions
-Regulator and leadership body do not need to be within same organisation, says Keith Ridge
-Commissioning needs to be informed by strategic pharmaceutical advice, says Society's President
-Changes to homoeopathic remedy licensing announced by MHRA
-NPSA recommends anticoagulant role for pharmacy
-Further ASCOT data support case for amlodipine-based therapy

Working with police to protect the public 304
Pharmacists in Gwent are now able to keep up to date with local drug safety issues through a police messaging system. Tom Moberly reports
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Products   305

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Products   305
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Products miscellany
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Recalls   305
-Gyno-Pevaryl 150 Combipack
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Broad Spectrum   306

Are pharmacists “suitably qualified” to provide stoma appliances? 306
By Cherry Bwalya
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Letters   307-308

-The Society
-Community pharmacy
-Control of entry
-Complementary medicine
-Controlled drugs
-Diabetes
-Pharmacy in the US
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British Pharmaceutical Conference 2006   299-300, 309-316

British Pharmaceutical Conference
News and reports 299-300, 309-316
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News 299-300
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Reports 309-316
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Articles   317

Radio-frequency ID to the rescue 317
Peter Harrop outlines moves towards introducing radio frequency identification as a means of verifying the authenticity and integrity of medicines, as well as to improve compliance and reduce medical errors
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Onlooker   318

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Moral quandary over stem cell research 318
In an editorial in the 18 August issue of Science, Ruth Faden, a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, examines the challenges faced by scientists in countries with differing legal requirements. The immediate problem has arisen over national laws governing the use of human embryonic stem cells in research. These vary widely from place to place, and so far no reasonable compromise has been reached that might serve to guide the scientists concerned
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Puzzling escalation in hospital admissions arising from insect stings 318
There is an intriguing suggestion in the 22 July issue of The Lancet that some other living creatures might be conceived as rebelling against the human race that has assumed, with incredible arrogance, that it is so superior as never to be reckoned with
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The lacing of illicit drugs with fentanyl is an expanding deadly hazard 318
A world report in The Lancet of 12 August draws attention to the ever-increasing threat of the deliberate adulteration of narcotic drugs with opioid analgesics. The latest examples in the international drug traffic business have been diamorphine and cocaine laced with fentanyl
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Guidance on further changes to Controlled Drug legislation 319
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Statutory Committee declines to hear a case that is eight years old 319
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Statutory Committee Reports
Pharmacist who made “irresponsible” supplies to patient with anorexia is ordered to be struck off 320
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Striking-off ordered for pharmacist who dispensed out-of-date medicine and told patient it was usable 321
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Further changes to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 322
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 322
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Future events 305
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Awards 305
-Innovation in pharmacologistics
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Resources 305
-Healthy eating in coeliac disease
-Scottish contract
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Wants 305
-Journal club, Wales
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Corrections 305
-Letter response
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