The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 pp349-382 No 7495
29 March 2008

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Article   350

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Where regulation falls down 350
Making Britain the safest place to take medicines is a laudable aim espoused by the President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. It is a principle worth aspiring to, but there are many difficulties in defining what it might mean in practice
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News   351-8

News summary  351-8
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Lead stories
-New code includes pharmacy despite opposition
-Independent safety review lacking in paediatric trials
-Scotland's community pharmacy representatives oppose plans to register and regulate technicians
-Medicines funded through risk-sharing must offer tangible value
-Digital versions of new BNF include extra entries
-EU sets out plans to make it easier to spot counterfeit medicines
-Age to start HIV therapy in children needs research
-NHS pharmacy workforce rises by 2 per cent between 2006 and 2007

POEMs   355

POEMs series

Long-term use of PPIs appears to be safe in children 355
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Products   359

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Letters   360-3

- Minor ailment service
- Locum responibilities
- Education
- The Society
- Manufacturing
- White Paper
- Children's BNF
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Original papers   371-5

Randomised, controlled, parallel group clinical trials to evaluate the efficacy of isopropyl myristate/cyclomethicone solution against head lice 371-5
By Ian F. Burgess, Peter N. Lee and Christine M. Brown
Aim — To evaluate the efficacy and safety of two applications, seven days apart, of either isopropyl myristate/cyclomethicone solution (IPM/C) (Full Marks Solution) or permethrin 1 per cent (Lyclear Creme Rinse) for the treatment of head louse infestation
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Articles   364-370

Parallel trade
The birth of the parallel medicines trade 364-7
In the first article in a series on parallel imports, Cathal Gallagher and Richard O'Neill examine the history of the parallel trade in medicines and outline landmark European law cases that have set the criteria for the licensing of these products throughout the EU
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Healthcare ethics and law
Healthcare: who pays and how much? 368-70
In the second article of a series discussing issues in healthcare ethics and law, David Badcott and Joy Wingfield ask: what price a life?
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Glow-worm   376

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There is more than one way to hug a tree 376
The term “tree-hugger” is often used in a deprecatory sense by those of a less liberal disposition to describe members of society who have the interests of the environment at heart, but whose views may appear not to be in the mainstream, in much the same way as “hippies” were pigeonholed in the 1960s and ’70s

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Electricity and dune formation 376
When high winds sweep across the surface of the desert they carry along grains of sand, causing them to bounce against each other and the ground, in a process known as saltation (from the Latin for “leap”)
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Sweden's double leap year 376
As we move into spring 2008, the four-yearly occurrence of 29 February slips into memory, complete with the quirks and rituals associated with it, such as leap year babies, the origins of women asking for the man’s hand in marriage, and the apparent absence of the rule of law on leap year day during medieval times
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The Society    377-82

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Disciplinary Committee 377
Reprimand for misconduct in the supply of cyclizine
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Law and Ethics Bulletin 2001 to present
Restriction on sale of pseudoephedrine and ephedrine products 377
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Prescribing of Controlled Drugs by pharmacist and nurse independent prescribers 377
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Official notices 2001 to present

Erasures from the Registers for non-payment of fees 378-381
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Obituaries & tributes

Obituaries
-Ashworth
-Reid

Tributes
-Davies
-Grainger
-Huntley
-Pipe
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Corrections 359
-AstraZeneca news
-David Kent's letter
-Grainger
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