The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 pp59-86 No 7461
21 July 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   60

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What do you hope for? 60
With widespread acknowledgement that the future of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society — and the sort of professional leadership role it will develop — is in the gift of the membership, it is timely that the Society announces this week that it has commissioned a research consultancy to find out what members want
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Profession under the spotlight 60
Pharmacists concerned that products containing ephedrine and pseudoephedrine may be switched to prescription-only medicines have a chance to prove that their houses are in order
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News & Features   61-68

News summary, including R&D  61-67
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Lead stories
-Regulatory change team revealed
-Dawn Primarolo is named new minister in charge of pharmacy
-Regulation needs to be “reframed” Keith Ridge tells the College of Pharmacy Practice
-Push for ETP roll-out in Scotland
-Company chemists reject emphasis in APPG report
-Greater emphasis on off-label prescribing needed
-Reprimands for three companies
-SMC accepts four new medicines
-New rheumatoid arthritis treatments show promise

Rare diseases: how treatment is funded 68
Diseases that affect one patient in every 100,000 or so would lead to unmanageable burdens if expensive treatments had to be funded locally. Tom Moberly looks at national programmes for funding such treatments and recent changes to the organisations involved
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POEMs   66

POEMs series

Ibuprofen better analgesic after a single dose 66
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Products   69

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Products   69
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Products miscellany
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Alert   69
-Sensodyne Original and Sensodyne Mint
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Drug tariff updates   69
-England and Wales
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Broad Spectrum   70

Shared learning is now a reality — a further update from a double agent 70
By Michael Gibson
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Letters   71-72

-White Paper
-Pfizer
-Recruitment
-Dispensing
-Labelling
-Retention fees
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Original papers   73-76

The application of explicit criteria to identify accident and emergency patients suitable for management solely by a pharmacist 73-76
By Sana Ahmed, Ursula Collignon and C. Alice Oborne
Aim — To determine the proportion of patients attending an accident and emergency (A&E) department who are suitable for management by a pharmacist
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Reviews   77

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Non-prescription medicines 77
by Alan Nathan
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Pharmacy practice in an aging society 77
by Jeanette Yeznach Wick
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British herbal compendium volume 2: a handbook of scientific information on widely used plant drugs 77
by Peter Bradley
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Athena   78

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Preventing malaria spread 78
As summer progresses, sun block, travel sickness tablets and antidiarrhoeals fly off the shelves. For those travelling to exotic destinations, malaria prophylaxis is a major concern. Around 2,000 Britons and 500 million people worldwide suffer from malaria each year (according to the World Health Organization). Understanding why mosquitoes bite may be the key to preventing the spread of this deadly disease
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Taking empathy to a touch-sensitive level 78
As pharmacists we are often encouraged to be empathetic. However,what makes people empathetic is still unknown. In contrast, people with mirror touch-synaesthesia (MTS) can literally feel the pain of others
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Important role for the umbilical cord 78
In many ancient cultures of Africa, Asia and Latin America the umbilical cord is not cut away at the baby's abdomen at birth. Instead, it is allowed to detach naturally from the newborn at around one to two days after birth. The benefits of these traditions have never been investigated. However, now it seems that the umbilical cord is full of untapped resources, and may be integral to the health of the newborn
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Surf, sand and Escherichia coli? 78
Despite the rainy weather, holidaymakers will be making their way to beaches, to indulge in a little sea-air sand and general relaxation. What people who are flying to the US in search of sun may not be aware of are the recent concerns about the number of Escherichia coli strains found on beaches there
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Memes and genres — literal evolution 78
Patterns of literature in the UK could be linked to that of genetic evolution, according to Franco Moretti, an English professor at Stanford University. Studying the trends of literature in the UK, he shows that there have been three surges in the development of the novel to date
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)   79-82

Recent articles

Haemorrhoids and anal fissures  79-82
Susan Allen looks at two common anorectal problems that pharmacists might encounter
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Opinion Leader commissioned to identify members' expectations 83
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Preview of code of ethics with this week's Journal 83
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Society delighted at response of tutors to its training day survey 83
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Registration examination results out on July 20 84
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New book on homoeopathic prescribing, written by homoeopathic pharmacists, published by the Pharmaceutical Press 84
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Official notices 2001 to present

Statutory Committee 85
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Disciplinary Committee decisions 85
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Obituaries & tributes 86

Obituaries
-Browne
-Dewhurst
-Jindal
-Lloyd
-McBean
-Metcalf
-Monks
-Pink
-Preston
-Tuffin
-Wilkinson

Tribute
-Templeton

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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 86
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Society meetings 84
-FIP Quality-International 2007 Conference: Call for speakers and posters (26-27 November)
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Future events 69
-Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association (CPA) conference (1-5 August)
-The Pharmacist (13-27 August)
-UniChem convention (1-7 September)
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Reunions 69
-The Square 1982
-Hope Winch Society
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Awards 69
-Pharma Awards
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Corrections 69
-BPC organiser
-The Journal
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