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Concerned and diasappointed!

September 7, 2010

by Kazeem Olalekan MRPharmS
A news article on the BBC Today program (http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8971000/8971236.stm) came to my attention yesterday about Avandia. It left me concerned for my patients and disappointed in the regulatory framework and in particular at GSK’s response. The concern about Avandia is not new. In July 2007, I posted a blog on Iforg Limited [...]

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Pharmacy and Politics; Healthcare and Election

May 2, 2010

by Kazeem Olalekan
There is something important called the general election happening right now. On May the 6th (3 days from today), the citizens of the United Kingdom will elect one MP for each of the 650 constituencies to the House of Commons(1). There has been a lot of firsts in this election: The first televised [...]

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Synchronised Swimming

March 6, 2010

by Kazeem Olalekan

With glowing hearts, United States of America bagged 9 Gold medals, 15 silver medals and 13 bronze medals in the recent winter Olympics in Vancouver. A total medal haul of 37, seven more than their closest rival, Germany. Great Britain, on the other hand, came joint last with Estonia and Kazakhstan (is that [...]

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The coroner has spoken

March 6, 2010

The issue surrounding the suspended sentence handed out to our colleague, Elizabeth Lee, has exercise a lot of passion amongst practising pharmacists. It moved myself to write this article.

The latest update in this sorry episode is the report by the coroner on the 4th of March 2010. Peter Bedford, Berkshire coroner, said that the effects [...]

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Complacency did not build the Tower of Babylon

February 19, 2010

Some of you may be aware of the Babylon Tower debacle. The story goes that at one point in the history the world had one common language as they all descended from one man. A part of the world’s people moved eastward and some settled on the plain of Shinar also [...]

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Antibiotics Resistance – A perfect Storm

October 20, 2009

Tonight bookapharmacist.com in conjuction with Pfizer, are supporting an important Branch meeting on Antibiotics Resistance (-Just another example of big Pharma working with Pharmacists). Download the events pdf here. The talk on Antibiotic Resistance will be given by no other than Dr Kieran Hand, Consultant Pharmacist – Anti-infectives at Southampton University Hospitals Trust. This [...]

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…and another one: More Packaging: why not?

October 20, 2009

We hate to be picky here but this issue of extra packaging layer is our bugbear just now. We have now catalogued three cases (including this one). Maybe if we continue to do this, someone will take note and come up with a wonderful idea to minimise packaging. We all have to do our bit [...]

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Yet another layer of Packaging!

September 28, 2009

Here, we follow up on our post of the 15th of September 2009 titled: New Packaging: What is the point? Here is another evidence of increasing use of extra layer of packaging for medicinal products. Anyone with ingenious ways of tackling this increasing problem?

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Tic.Toc.Tic.Toc: The birth of Responsibility

September 28, 2009

It is difficult not to have noticed the oncoming significant change in community pharmacy regulation. We are referring to the Responsible Pharmacist regulation which is due to take effect in eh…3 days (1st October 2009). At bookapharmacist.com, we call it “the birth of responsibility”. If this is the birth of responsibility, then what has community [...]

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Pharmacist 2.0 and beyond…

September 28, 2009

by Kazeem Olalekan MRPharmS MBCS
Pharmacist 2.0 is a parody on Web 2.0. Yes, it is funny but there is a serious underlying point to this.

What is Web 2.0?

Wikipedia describe Web 2.0 as “web development and web design that facilitates interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of Web [...]

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