Leading Articles 294 |
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Confidence undermined 294
After heralding the new pharmacy contract
introduced nearly three years ago as the lever to develop a clinically
focused community pharmacy sector, the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating
Committee seems to be developing a new message over its funding
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No black or white answers 294
With the number of tests being carried out
in the NHS annually running into the hundreds of millions and with
the recent massive expansion in tests available for the public to buy,
concern was raised earlier this week about the lack of regulation of
all these different products
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News & Features 295-302 |
News summary 295-301
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Lead stories
-PSNC chairman: pharmacy's confidence is shaken
-Lansley tells of Category M “boom and bust”
-Oral contraception PGD starts in Manchester
-Banksy artwork appears on London pharmacy wall
-Revised Society election details
-Budget
-Prescription charge rises by 25p to £7.10 in England
-Law change to force companies to report all ADRs
-Health tests need to be evaluated
-SMC approves infliximab for child Crohn's disease
-Novel vaccine reduces BP by targeting angiotensin II
-Study supports use of aromatase inhibitors after tamoxifen use ends
MHRA gives industry a morality check 302
Legislative changes will force pharmaceutical companies to report promptly the side effects of all medicines after an attempt by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to prosecute GlaxoSmithKline for allegedly withholding safety data on Seroxat failed. Dawn Connelly reports
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Products 303 |
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Products 303
-SPC changes
-Prescription products
-Supply issues
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Announcements 303
-DermaSilk
-UCB Pharma distribution
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Medical device alert 303
-Smiths Medical cassette reservoirs for CADD
pumps
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Broad Spectrum 304 |
Why we need industrial pharmacists 304
By Stephen Goundrey-Smith
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Letters 305-308 |
-Category M medicines
-Community pharmacy
-Primary care contracts
-100-hour pharmacies
-PCT commissioning
-Prescription charges
-Medicines use reviews
-Dispensing
-Minor ailment scheme
-Adverse drug reactions
-Asthma management
-Non-practising status
-The Society
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Articles 309-318 |
Landmark drugs
Zidovudine — a harbinger of hope for sufferers from AIDS in the 1980s 309-310
In this sixth article in a series on landmark drugs, Jenny Bryan looks at the antiviral zidovudine, which, as the first drug to be licensed for the
treatment of AIDS, brought hope to sufferers, who at the time were mainly gay men, and saved them from an automatic death sentence
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Headache resources
Guidelines for community pharmacists on the management of headache 311-318
Headache is a significant public health problem that is often suitable for pharmacists to manage because patients turn to them for help or to self-medicate, rather than visit their GP. Christine Glover and colleagues outline their evidence-based guidelines for pharmacists
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Footler 319 |
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 By the light of the silvery moon … 319
Exposure to too much sunlight is unhealthy for us, we are told. We know there are links between sunshine holidays, sunbeds and skin cancer. Conversely we have recently been informed that too little time spent in the sun is also bad for us. Anyone living north of Birmingham in our dark winter days is unlikely to be producing enough vitamin D. Taking a vitamin supplement has been recommended to prevent rickets, which we had hoped was a problem of the past for children
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Leave those freckles alone 319
A discussion broke out recently as to whether freckles are an attractive part of one’s features or something to get rid of
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How biowalls improve well-being 319
We are gradually understanding the need to improve our environment. Wind turbines, like them or not, are multiplying, and solar panels with their big brothers, solar walls and solar roofs are helping to produce “green” energy. Green roofs covered with closely packed plants growing in a few inches of soil on a waterproof layer in place of roof tiles help to insulate buildings, collect rainwater and reduce air pollution
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| The Society 320-321 |
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Official notices 2001
to present
Health Committee 320
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Disciplinary Committee 320
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Obituaries & tributes 321
Obituaries
-Grainger
-Huntley
-Kitchener
-MacDonald
Tribute
-Huntley
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My career 322 |
Careers
 A move from HIV to haemato-oncology 322
This article looks at how working as an HIV specialist prepared Elizabeth Davies for a haemato-oncology post
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Diary / Health events
Branch meetings 321
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Society meetings 321
-Biologically active compounds in foods and drinks
(1 May)
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Future events 303
-Gene and immunotherapy (19 March)
-CPPE learning@lunch (April/May)
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Resources 303
-NHS operating framework
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