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Cancer sessions
Our final package of reports from the Conference in Glasgow
starts with “tackling cancer”, one of its main themes.
Sessions held on 24, 25 and 26 September looked at the pharmacist’s
role in cancer care, recent developments in the search for new cancer
treatments, including compounds sourced from natural products, and
the role that food plays in the development of cancers
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Closing the
gaps in cancer care in order to save lives...[more]
The pharmacist’s role in community palliative care...[more]
Bureaucracy holds back cancer drugs from patients...[more]
Use of monoclonal antibodies to target cancer cells...[more]
Antiangiogenic drugs are a third of new cancer research targets...[more]
PGP modulators could stop drug-resistant cancer...[more]
Natural products and the treatment of cancer...[more]
Superbroccoli and other foods in cancer prevention...[more]
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Complementary therapy
session
For the third year running, the British Pharmaceutical
Conference included lectures on complementary medicine. This year’s
presentations focused on complementary medicines, particularly mistletoe
extract, for patients with cancer
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Complementary
medicines and the treatment of cancer...[more]
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Practice research lecture
Dr Carmel Hughes gave the Chemist & Druggist
practice research award lecture on 24 September. The lecture detailed
her work as a Harkness Fellow in the United States, looking at the
effects of legislation on the quality of prescribing in nursing
homes
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Legislation
alone cannot ensure quality...[more]
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Coronary heart disease
(Managing the challenge of heart disease)
Tackling cardiovascular disease was the Conference theme
for the day on 25 September. The role of pharmacists in CHD was
discussed in a Conference symposium and a session for hospital pharmacists.
Other speakers addressed the National Service Framework for CHD
and how coronary disease fitted in with public health in Glasgow
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Role for pharmacists
in care of patients with CHD...[more]
Optimising the management of heart failure...[more]
Hospital pharmacists and the NSF for CHD...[more]
Managers should be impresarios — not babysitters...[more]
How pharmacists help patients after heart attacks...[more]
Eliminating lymphatic filariasis...[more]
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Science medal lecture
This year’s Conference Science Medal was awarded to Dr
Bruno Hancock. His lecture, given on 24 September, looked at the
characterisation and molecular engineering of amorphous materials.
Jo Barnes reports
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Disordered
drug delivery: destiny, dynamics and the Deborah number...[more]
Conference Science Medal...[more]
Dr Bruno Hancock...[more]
Applications for the 2002 Conference Science Medal...[more]
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Pharmaceutical care
Attendees at the Conference on 23 September heard about
a pharmaceutical care course run by the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate
Education and its Scottish counterpart
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Pharmaceutical
care in the community...[more]
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National Association of
Women Pharmacists (NAWP)
The question of why so few women have been included in
clinical trials on new medicines was discussed during a Conference
session held on 23 September in conjunction with the National Association
of Women Pharmacists
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Sexual discrimination
and clinical trials...[more]
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Veterinary pharmacy session
Foot and mouth disease was the main topic addressed by
speakers at the veterinary pharmacy session of the British Pharmaceutical
Conference, held on 24 September. The session, entitled “The effect
on the nation’s health of animal transmitted diseases”, was chaired
by Douglas Davidson (Blairgowrie), a past chairman of the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society’s Veterinary Pharmacists Group
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The effect
on the nation’s health of animal transmitted diseases...[more]
Protection against zoonotic diseases...[more]
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Pharmacy in the service
of patients
The differing views of patients and pharmacists about
new medicines were discussed in a session entitled “Pharmacy in
the service of patients” held on 23 September
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Patients’
different views of medicines...[more]
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