The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 pp177-204 No 7439
17 February 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   178

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Hopes for the high street 178
Boots The Chemists has developed a private patient group direction for the supply of sildenafil through three of its stores in Manchester — the fourth private PGD that the company has established. Although this one is a major advance in the provision of community clinical pharmacy services, together these PGDs raise an issue that the profession may wish to consider for the future. Should a high street pharmacy continue to be a retail outlet with clinical services on offer?
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News & Features   179-184

News summary, including R&D  179-184
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Lead stories
-Boots launches private PGD service to supply Viagra
-Bar too high for private PGDs
-Opinion varies on uptake of Pfizer accounts
-Threshold triggers antivirals for seasonal influenza
-Written information of little value, say patients
-Donepezil orodispersible tablets approved for use in NHS Scotland
-Ranibizumab launched for macular degeneration
-Interleukin antibody for psoriasis

Products   185

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Products   185
-New medicines
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
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Announcements   185
-Fitness to practise
-NPA board election
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Drug tariff updates   185
-England and Wales (February prescriptions)
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Broad Spectrum   186

Use of preserved eye preparations —is the Society's guidance still relevant? 186
By Valerie Haylor and Jacqueline Jones
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Letters   187-190

-Community pharmacy
-Pfizer proposals
-COPD
-Statins
-Complementary medicine
-NHS
-Physician-assisted suicide
-Prescribing
-Northern Ireland
-Medicines recycling
-Retention fees
-Reciprocity
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Articles   191-192

MPharm at Wolverhampton focuses on practice-based clinical teaching and clinical skills development 191-192
The University of Wolverhampton recruited its first cohort of pharmacy undergraduates in September 2006. Alan Hindle, lead clinical pharmacy lecturer/practitioner at the university, discusses the development and structure of the new MPharm course
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Reviews   193

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Information technology for pharmacists 193
by Richard Fisher
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A practical guide to quality management in clinical trial research 193
by Graham Ogg
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Sport and exercise medicine for pharmacists193
edited by Steven B. Kayne
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Onlooker   194

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Does industry funding mean biased academic research? 194
Research, scientific or otherwise, is essentially a matter of logic guided by ethical considerations. Research has been defined as “an endeavour to discover new or collate old facts, etc, by scientific study or by a course of critical investigation”
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Link between abilities to recall the past and to imagine the future 194
A note on the connection between memory and imagination appears in the 19 January issue of Science. It points out that people suffering from amnesia not only struggle to recall their past but may also require more effort to imagine their future
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Alien plant that threatens our native flora 194
In the 27 January issue of New Scientist is an account of a strange and threatening phenomenon. The Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera), a native of the western Himalaya, was introduced into UK gardens in 1839 but quickly escaped into the wild and colonised damp woodlands and riverbanks. Not content with that feat, it expanded its range across Europe, Canada, the US and New Zealand
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Myths and mankind 194
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   195-198

Recent articles

Ocular conditions
Ocular conditions from A to Z (i)   195-198
In this article, Marvyn Elton presents an A to Z guide to ocular conditions with visible signs that may be shown to pharmacists
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Applications invited for BPC 2007 conference science medal 199
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Hospital Pharmacists Group seeks committee members to represent England 199
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Pharmaceutical Care Awards 200
The Pharmaceutical Journal is calling for entries for the 15th Pharmaceutical Care Awards, which recognise excellence in the development of pharmaceutical services
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New edition of the “Orange guide” now available from the Pharmaceutical Press 201
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Clarification on “Changes to the return and storage of waste medicines in Scotland” 200
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Clarification on “Validity period for owing slips” 200
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Official notices 2001 to present

Statutory Committee inquiries 202
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Council election 2007 202-203
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Hospital Pharmacists Group Committee election 2007 203
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Industrial Pharmacists Group Committee election 2007 203
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Obituaries & tributes 203

Obituaries
-Gratton

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 204
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Future events 185
-Success for pharmacy (4/11/18 March)
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Society meetings 202-203
-Stability testing of pharmaceuticals (19-21 February)
-The role of materials characterisation in pharmaceutical quality by design and manufacture (22 February)
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Corrections 185
-IPG committee
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