Issue : The Pharmaceutical Journal, March 2020, Vol 304, No 7935
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Young people who vape are almost five times more likely to start smoking, research suggests Subscription
Young people who have tried e-cigarettes are nearly five times more likely to go on to try smoking, a review of the evidence suggests. However, it remains unclear whether or not e-cigarettes act as a ‘gateway’ to smoking.
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Welsh Pharmacy Board meeting: 5 February 2020
At the latest Royal Pharmaceutical Society Welsh Pharmacy Board meeting, discussions revolved around Brexit, medicines shortages and public affairs in Wales.
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We must not forget transgender patients’ physiology if we are to prescribe safely Subscription
Pharmacists should always be respectful of patients’ identity wishes, but biological differences between the sexes mean that conflating sex and gender could have serious implications for prescribing.
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Tribute: Martin Leonard Ibbitt
It was with great sadness that I heard of the death of Martin Ibbitt after a short illness.
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Tribute: Laurie Evans
I was very sorry to read of the recent passing of Laurie Evans. I first met Laurie, together with his wife Celia, when I was aged 16 years, working the counter during evenings and weekends in a supermarket pharmacy in Southampton. Semi-retired after many years running their own pharmacy, a hub of the neighbouring community at Bitterne Triangle, Mr and Mrs Evans would frequently provide locum pharmacist cover for those evening shifts.
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Tribute: John Buckles
I was sorry to learn of the passing of John Buckles. Although I have not had contact with John for some years, I have fond memories of our time together as apprentices with Timothy Whites and Taylors in Preston, in the early 1950s. John was the senior apprentice who acted as the ‘deputy apprentice master’. Even then, his abilities as a teacher came through. I well remember how he guided me, as a very raw recruit, through the complexities of the apothecaries’ system of weights and measures ...
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Transitional payments for pharmacies to increase but then end in 2021 Subscription
Transitional payments for pharmacies will increase early in the 2020/2021 financial year, but then be phased out, with no transition payments at all expected from 2021/2022, pharmacy negotiators have said.
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Three-quarters of Rowlands pharmacies could cut opening hours under money-saving proposals Subscription
Rowlands Pharmacy has proposed cutting back on the number of hours its pharmacies are open for in an effort to cut costs.
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The true impact of the UK’s hormone replacement therapy shortages Subscription
More than 18 months of hormone replacement therapy product shortages have had a drastic impact on the lives of people who rely on them, but nobody seems to know why they are happening.
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The race to stop COVID-19
As a new strain of coronavirus threatens public health systems across the globe, researchers are racing to develop a vaccine.
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