The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 pp501-532 No 7424
28 October 2006

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Leading Articles   502

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Never overlook a cough! 502
Ask most community pharmacists what is the most popular specialist service offered at pharmacies and smoking cessation is bound to be near the top. But even pharmacists who run successful schemes may be missing a trick — unless suggestions in this week's Continuing professional development centre section are followed
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Food for thought from New Zealand 502
Two years ago we wrote about the splitting of the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand into separate regulatory and professional organisations. This week, we found out how successful the split has been
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News & Features   503-510

News summary  503-508
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Lead stories
-Concerns remain for medicines management roles
-MHRA issues warning over high-dose NSAIDS
-Pharmacist attacks Society employee with metal bar at Statutory Committee hearing
-Boots electronic prescription service system approved
-Influenza vaccine capacity lacking in case of pandemic, WHO warns
-Pharmacy review helps patients with knee pain
-NICE publishes guideline on urinary incontinence
-Prescription charges in England to be reviewed
-Recipients of NPPG award study pupils' views on chronic illness

Split success: New Zealand's story 509
Two years ago, the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand split, creating separate organisations for regulation and representation. With the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain facing calls for a separation of functions, Clare Bellingham finds out if the NZ split has been a success
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Integrating self care into primary care 510
Community pharmacy is given prominent billing in the Working in Partnership Programme's new book on self care. Tom Moberly reports
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Products   511

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Products   511
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Counter products
-Products miscellany
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Announcements   511
-Phosphate supplements in BNF 52
-Trasylol
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Drug tariff updates   511
-England and Wales
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Broad Spectrum   512

Why treatment plans must replace prescriptions in an electronic age 512
Bob Gartside
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Letters   513-515

-Pfizer products
-Superdrug
-Electronic prescribing
-Instalment prescriptions
-The profession
-Fractures
-Section 60 Order
-Local councils
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Articles   516-520, 525

Baby clothes, sandwiches and T-shirts spoil pharmacy's professional image 516-517
What follows is based on the valedictory address to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Council on 10 October given by Alexander Florence, former dean of The School of Pharmacy, University of London, and emeritus professor of pharmacy. He told the Council that the profession has much to celebrate, but that pharmacy's image on the high street continues to let the profession down
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What targeted therapy for cancer is and how it is achieved: a review 518-520, 525
In this article, Max Summerhayes describes ways in which tumours are targeted by cytotoxic drugs
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   521-524

Recent articles

An overview of lung cancer   521-524
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. With public smoking bans springing up over Europe and investment in campaigns to discourage the habit in the UK, perhaps more of the future generation will see smoking as unattractive. But what about those for whom such interventions have come too late? In this article, Michael Peake explains why it is important to be alert to lung cancer
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Meetings   526-527

Reports index

Analytical Solutions
New developments in chromatographic and other analytical techniques 526
Nicholas D. Wood reports from a seminar for those involved in analysis or development of medicines, medical devices or their components
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FIP
Ask for your FIP congress supplement 527
Our extended coverage of the recent FIP Congress is published in a 36-page supplement. Graeme Smith encourages readers to obtain a copy
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Onlooker   528

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UN to decide what “disability” means 528
An intriguing comment on what we mean when we talk of a disability appears in The Lancet of October 7
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Palaeoanthropologists excited by finding of a young human ancestor 528
Great interest has been aroused among palaeoanthropologists by recent reports regarding the skeleton of a three-year-old girl discovered in Ethiopia. She was buried some 3.3 million years ago by a local flood
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Oldest writing in the New World is discovered 528
In the 15 September issue of Science there is an account of the finding of what is claimed by the experts to be the oldest example of writing so far discovered in the New World. It was on a stone block quarried by road builders from an ancient mound at Cascajal, outside San Lorenzo in Mexico
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Tricky problem of fanatics / Essential human freedoms 528
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Pass rate of 84.5 per cent in Society's autumn registration examination 529
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Branch meeting attendances can be boosted by CPD-related topics 529
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Museum adds four new replica jars to its range of merchandise 530
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Pharmacy technicians encouraged to register and vote in English and Welsh board elections 530
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Official notices 2001 to present

English Pharmacy Board elections 531
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Scottish Pharmacy Board elections 531
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Welsh Pharmacy Board elections 531
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Registration examination successes 531-532
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 532
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Society meetings 531
-Joint meeting: “A night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury: the history of syphilis and its treatments” (November 15)

-One-day course: Preparing for and managing in emergencies — lessons for hospital pharmacy (November 30)
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Future events 511
-Preregistration trainee first-aid training (November 4)
-Asthma and COPD (November 21)
-AAH convention (April 18-24, 2007)
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Resources 511
-Complementary medicines
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Reunions 511
-Bath centenary
-Welsh School of Pharmacy
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Wants 511
-Needle exchange study
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