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Global
pharmacy: health care for all?
The role of pharmacists in improving health care,
generally and in the area of malaria specifically, were discussed
during a Conference symposium held on 23 September under the chairmanship
of John Waite from the BBC Radio 4 programme You and Yours. Two
other speakers gave contrasting views on the role of the pharmaceutical
industry in neglected diseases
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Pharmacists
can help close global health care gaps...[more]
Pharmacists and malaria...[more]
The pharmaceutical industry and the developing world...[more]
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GHP/NPA joint award
A scheme to allow community pharmacists to make anonymous reports
of medication errors was the winner of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists
and National Pharmaceutical Association joint award for 2000
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Reporting errors in the community...[more]
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Hospital session
It was appropriate that this year’s British Pharmaceutical
Conference took place in Scotland, the birthplace of Sir Alexander
Fleming, since the first session for hospital pharmacists on 24
September was on the topic of hospital acquired infection
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Antibiotic
resistance: are we destined to return to the pre-penicillin days?...[more]
Managing manpower, managing medicines...[more]
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Primary care symposium
The chief executive of leading-edge North Peterborough Primary Care
Trust has a view of the future of primary care where pharmacists
play a central role in a wide range of patient services
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Pharmacists
can play a central role in a wide range of patient services ...[more]
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Community pharmacy
A discussion on the future of pharmacy and the role of pharmacy
in public health was held on 24 September. The session was chaired
by Peter Curphey, a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s
Council, and led by Alison Strath, chairman of the Society’s
Scottish Executive, Dr George Rae, member, General Practice Committee,
and Professor Peter Noyce, professor of pharmacy practice, University
of Manchester. A second community pharmacy session discussed care
of older people
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Pharmacy opportunities
in public health...[more]
Opportunities for pharmacy in care of older people...[more]
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AstraZeneca lecture
The success of drug delivery via inhalers and nebulisers largely
depends on the size of the particles or droplets inhaled. On 25
September, Dr Igor Gonda described his research into the factors
that affect particle size
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How optimising
particle size can lead to more effective inhaled drug therapy...[more]
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GlaxoSmithKline lecture
The winner of this year’s GlaxoSmithKline International Achievement
Award is Professor Sandy Florence, dean of the School of Pharmacy,
University of London. Professor Florence gave a lecture about drug
delivery
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Explorations
in drug delivery: soft matter, small spheres...[more]
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Conference symposium:
Challenges presented by prevention and treatment of tuberculosis
Speakers at a symposium 24 September said that tuberculosis
still kills more people worldwide than any other infectious disease
and discussed the advances and pitfalls in the hunt to find new
drugs and vaccines for use against it
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Development
of new drugs is being hampered by the efficacy of existing treatments...[more]
Advances in tuberculosis vaccine research...[more]
How the body resists infection by M tuberculosis
...[more]
HIV-associated tuberculosis — double trouble...[more]
The M tuberculosis genome ...[more]
Control of TB in cattle...[more]
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