The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 pp659-690 No 7455
9 June 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   660

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Exceptional challenges 660
Hemant Patel was elected unopposed for a third term of office as President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society at the Council meeting earlier this week
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News & Features   661-667

News summary  661-666
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Lead stories
-MHRA warns of more counterfeits in supply chain
-Pfizer purchasing quotas criticised by CPS
-NHS in surplus by £510m
-Cause to rasie pharmacy profile in pandemic flu plans
-Manufacturer to offer money back if treatment fails
-Most paediatric cancer drug errors reach patients before detection
-Long-term trastuzumab data show sustained benefit
-Folic acid supplements can reduce risk of stroke

Pharmacy can attract men to health 667
Men make far less use of pharmacies than women, even though many features of pharmacies should make them attractive and convenient sources of information for men. Ahead of Men’s Health Week (11–17 June), Tom Moberly looks at what pharmacy can do to tackle men’s health issues
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Products   668-669

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Products   668
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Discontinued products
-Supply issues
-Products miscellany
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Recalls/Device alerts   668
-Casodex
-Plavix
-Smiths Medical medication cassette reservoir
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Broad Spectrum   670

M is for mayhem, madness or mischief 670
By Angus Thompson
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Letters   671-676

-White Paper
-The profession
-Tablets within capsules
-Technicians
-Supervision
-The Society
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Articles   677-678, 683

Electronic prescribing — technology designed for the health care setting 677-678, 683
In this article Stephen Goundrey-Smith outlines the requirements for the Connecting for Health electronic prescribing programme and discusses what electronic prescribing will mean for pharmacists
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   679-682

Recent articles

Palliative care
Pain in palliative care: a review   679-682
In the first of two articles on managing pain in palliative care, Andrew Dickman looks at non-opioid and adjuvant analgesics
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Meetings   684

Reports index

Cystic Fibrosis Pharmacist Group
Aspergillus exposure — a growing problem for cystic fibrosis patients 684
A recent meeting heard about some of the problems facing patients with cystic fibrosis. Nicola Purcell reports
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Reviews   685

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Selling sickness: how drug companies are turning us all into patients 685
by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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Excipient development for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and drug delivery systems 685
edited by Ashok Katdare and Mahesh V. Chaubal
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Clinical pharmacy 685
by Jane Wright, Alistair Howard Gray and Vincent Goodey
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Onlooker   686

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Managing the problem of depression in pregnancy 686
A discussion of the tricky problem of depression in women during pregnancy, from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College, London, appears in the 12 May issue of the BMJ. It points out that rates of depression are higher during the childbearing years than at any other time and vary from 7 to 15 per cent in economically developed countries to 19 to 25 per cent in less developed ones. The relapse rate in pregnant women with a history of recurrent mood disorder may be as high as 50 per cent
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More discoveries from the Mayan dynasties 686
In the Guatemala jungle, west of the famous Mayan ruin of Tikal, archaeologists have found a 1,400-year old royal tomb containing a mass of artefacts, including figurines of superb quality, apparently representing a court assembly
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Genetic predisposition is unjustifiable basis for discrimination 686
I note from an editorial in the 11 May issue of Science that the US House of Representatives has just passed legislation prohibiting health insurers from denying coverage to a healthy individual, or charging higher insurance premiums, solely because he or she possesses a genetic predisposition to develop a disease in the future. At the same time the law will prevent employers from making use of genetic information when deciding to hire, fire or promote employees
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Brain teaser 686
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Hemant Patel is President again 687
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Colin Ranshaw resigns from the Council 687
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Regulations replace Byelaws 687
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APG holds committee election 687
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Views sought on “responsible pharmacist” concept 688
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Six more pharmacists designated as fellows of the Society 688
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Move to introduce stronger penalties for unlawfully breaching patient confidentiality 689
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Official notices 2001 to present

New fellows 689
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Academic Pharmacy Group Committee election 2007 689
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CLARIFICATION: Susan Lisa Lander 689
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Obituaries & tributes 690

Obituaries
-Lawrie
-Noble

Tributes
-Lawrie

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 690
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Society meetings 689
-Annual meeting of members in Scotland (12 June)
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Awards 669
-Oncology
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Resources 669
-Switch-saving calculator
-Patient survey
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Corrections 669
-Counterfeit lot number
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