The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 pp151-176 No 7438
10 February 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   152

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Give women the choice 152
This week the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency organised a seminar to raise the possibility that some medicines for women — including the contraceptive pill — should be available to purchase over the counter. There will be a predictable negative response from certain groups within the medical profession to such a switch
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Let patients decide who sees their records 152
Community pharmacists in Britain must think, on a daily basis, how much more effective they would be if they could see patients' medical records. Many GPs and patients, however, are concerned about confidentiality if any Thomas, Richard or Henrietta may take a look
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News & Features   153-160

News summary  153-159
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Lead stories
-MHRA begins to consider OTC availability of contraceptive pill
-Tranexamic acid proposed as next POM-to-P switch
-First national board meeting
-Lord Fraser of Carmyllie criminal charges dropped
-Section 60 Order approved
-Contract review starts to gather evidence
-England's chief pharmacist calls for strong leaders
-Guidance on H5N1 post-exposure prophylaxis issued
-PCT considers major outsourcing
-Clomifene better than metformin for PCOS infertility
-Medicines uptake increases but geographical variation still exists

Patients hold the key to who may have access to their medical records 160
A pilot service giving patients password-protected internet access to their medical records might help pharmacists too. Clare Bellingham reports
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Products   161

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Products   161
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Products miscellany
-Discontinued products
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Announcements   161
-Osteonecrosis with CART
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Broad Spectrum   162

Traditional postgraduate education and training needs a makeover 162
By Cheryl Davis and Sharon Steel
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Letters   163-164

-Statins
-Advertising
-Physician assisted suicide
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Articles   165-167

How hospital teacher-practitioners contribute to undergraduate and preregistration education and training 165-167
This article, from the workforce development subgroup of the West Midlands Chief Pharmacists Network, describes an education and training scheme that not only benefits undergraduate pharmacy students and preregistration trainees but also helps recruitment into hospital pharmacy
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Meetings   168

Reports index

Drug Utilisation Research Group
“Gaming”: a loophole in the system 168
Over-achieving GPs mean less money in the NHS kitty. Lin-Nam Wang reports on an analysis of the impact of the quality and outcomes framework
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Reviews   169

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Psoriasis — the at your fingertips guide 169
by Tim Mitchell and Rebecca Penzer
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Good laboratory practice: the why and the how 169
by Jurg P. Seiler
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Best medicine — hypertension: angiotensin receptor blockers 169
by Bryan Williams, Mark Davis and George Kassianos
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Onlooker   170

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Blue-eyed boy seeks blue-eyed girl 170
With the approach of St Valentine's Day it is perhaps appropriate to comment on recent research findings about the significance of eye colour in the development of romantic attraction between men and women
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A link between Faust and the Ancient Mariner 170
It is interesting to note that an early translation into English of Goethe’s ‘Faust’, published in 1821 without disclosing its translator’s name, is soon to be republished by the Oxford University Press with the translation now accredited to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the celebrated author of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
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Born at the wrong time 170
There has long been a sneaking belief that the time of year at which your birth takes place has a long-lasting influence on your health and your life span. This may not be merely superstition but may have some basis in fact, according to a comment in the 22 January 2007 issue of New Scientist
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Endeavouring to improve the relationship between science and society 170
An editorial commentary by Alan Leshner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the 12 January 2007 issue of Science traces some of the relationship between science and society
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Veterinary Pharmacist (newsletter)   insert

Veterinary Pharmacist Group

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Respondents support Society's proposals for new Code of Ethics 171
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Minister opens new Welsh office of Society 171
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Ethnic minorities attracted to careers in pharmacy 172
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New textbook on paediatric pharmacy for pharmaceutical scientists 172
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Metropolitan Police investigations and release of patient confidential data 173
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Medication error logs 173
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Official notices 2001 to present

Council election 2007 174
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Industrial Pharmacists Group Committee election 2007 174
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Obituaries & tributes 174

Obituaries
-Allen
-Marsh
-Parkinson
-Scales
-Tomlinson
-Wilson

Tributes
-Allen
-Roebuck

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 176
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Society meetings 174
-Symposium: The role of materials characterisation in pharmaceutical quality by design and manufacture (22 February)

-Residential course: Pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic data analysis (20-24 May)
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Future events 161
-Exploratory development (21-22 February)
-Patient information (28 February)
-Dermatology (15 March)
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Resources 161
-Patient groups
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