Comment

An Onlooker's Notebook 556

• Driver's dilemma 556
• Drugs in art 556
• Explosive stuff 556
• Animals have rights 556

Leading Article 557

• Time to break the mould

News 558-561

• PSNC takes advice over PPA "fraud" 558
• PSNC resists Category D changes 558
• New French pharmaceutical union 559
• Scottish generics changes 559
• BASF to close Beeston site 559
• Pharmacy stand at Labour Party conference 559
• Ranitidine in corner shops in three years, pharmacists believe 559
• MSP agrees with pharmacy input into primary care 560
• PMCPA rejects Pharmacia & Upjohn complaint 560
• Scottish contract transfer 560
• NPA board report 560
• NICE rejects Glaxo Wellcome appeal against Relenza NHS ban 561

Clinical Pharmacy 562-564

• Specialists debate the use of palivizumab in RSV prevention 562
• New data confirm increased prevalence of childhood asthma 562
• Blindness postponed by diltiazem? 563
• French pharmacists can supply emergency contraception 563
• NSAID lozenge for sore throats launched 563
• Keep eating fruit and vegetables, says researcher 564
• Nifedipine and sperm 564
• Cutting off tumour blood supply 564

The Society 565-568

• Profession "raring to go" on pharmacy strategy . . . But the Minister has no news of it 565
• Society presses for better pay and conditions in higher education 566
• Welsh Executive: discussion document on contraception and sexual health 566
• Law and Ethics Bulletin 566
• Obituaries 567-568
• Obituaries - Adam Roxburgh 567
• Obituaries - John Castle 567
• Roadshow heads for Taunton after Cardiff "success" 568

Letters to the Editor 569

• Plea for PR support 569
• More pieces for the jigsaw please 569
• Local input? 569

Broad Spectrum 570

• Clinical governance and pharmacy: is there a place for policy in our profession (C. Duggan and S. Dhillon)

Continuing Education 571-576

• Travel medicine: (2) Travellers' diarrhoea (L. Goodyer)

Special Feature - Pharmacy Education 577-595

• The BPSA (J. Burton) 577-578
• A fresh approach to pharmacy education: the collaborative BPharm degree of MEDUNSA and Technikon Pretoria (R. S. Summers et al) 579-581
• E-mails from Grahamstown (C. Anderson) 582-583
• Research conducted by UK schools of pharmacy (T. Moffat) 584-586
• An invitation to participate in a review of degree accreditation (R. Dewdney) 587-589
• The schools of pharmacy
  • Aberdeen 590
  • Bath 590
  • Belfast 590
  • Birmingham 591
  • Bradford 591
  • Brighton 591
  • Cardiff 592
  • Derby 595
  • Glasgow 592
  • Keele 595
  • Leeds 595
  • Leicester 592
  • Liverpool 593
  • London, King's College 593
  • London, The School of Pharmacy 593
  • Manchester 594
  • Nottingham 594
  • Sunderland 595

The Conference 596-608

• Community Pharmacy Session 596-597
• Joint Agricultural and Veterinary and Community Pharmacy Session 598
• Diabetes Care Session 599
• Science Symposia - Asthma: the role of leukotrienes 600-601
• Science Symposia - Genomics: blueprints for drug discovery 602-603
• Science Symposia - New technology in drug discovery 604-605
• Glaxo Wellcome international achievement award lecture 606
• Joint Professional/Science Symposium 607

International 609-614

• World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Usable antibiotics are running out 609-610
• World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Evidence-based pharmacy and the importance of practice research 610
• World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences - A strategy for pharmacy is vital, Ann Lewis tells congress 611
• World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Standards must be set for dietary supplements 611
• World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Room for improvement in prescription labelling 612
• World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences - How pictograms can reinforce patient information 612
• World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Approaches to drug discovery from plants 613
• World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences - The work of Pharmaciens Sans Frontières 614
• World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences - FIP formulates strategy for the future 614

Products 615-616

• Strefen lozenges 615
• Abelcet vials 615
• Synvisc injection 615
• Zydol XL tablets 615
• Nicotinell lozenges 615
• Price changes 615-616

Notice-Board 617-618

• Diary 617
• Wants list 617
• Official notices 617
• Traditional Chinese Medicine 617
• Future events 618
• Correction 618
• Appointments 618
• BSHP mugs 618