Front Cover Picture
Our front cover photograph is of Strasbourg, France, which was the venue for a seminar organised by the Council of Europe to promote the role of the pharmacist in managing new health technologies. Report (p718). Leading article (p695).
Generics inquiry
The House of Commons Health Select Committee is inquiring into the availability to the NHS of generic medicines (p696).
Meningitis vaccine
A new meningitis vaccine is being included in the Department of Health's national immunisation programme (p700). News feature (p703).
PJOnline
Some tips for searching PJOnline, The Pharmaceutical Journal's new website, are provided for readers on p706.
Disability discrimination
The implications for pharmacy of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 is the subject of the fourth article in our "Business Focus" series on the financial and managerial aspects of running a community pharmacy (p716).
Advertising medicines
Whether drug companies should be allowed to advertise their prescription products direct to the public was the subject of a recent debate at the King's Fund in London (p723).
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