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All The Small (Surgical) Things

snaeem — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:29:23 +0100

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The workload problem in numbers

ranveer — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:54:41 +0100

There are currently concerns over the number of pharmacists and their increasing workload. I've pulled together a few numbers which might help inform the debate. Below is a graph showing how the number of pharmacists has increased in comparison with the number of pharmacies. I've used 2002 as a reference point as it's the earliest year a complete dataset is available. The number of...

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A pharmacist’s apocalypse

Editor — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:45:00 +0100

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Eat less salt, more potassium

Hourglass — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:32:08 +0100

The influence of a reduced salt intake on blood pressure continues to be much in the news. In its 2012 guidelines, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that adults cut their salt intake below 5g daily to reduce blood pressure and risk of stroke and coronary heart disease. A recent Cochrane analysis suggested that the current recommendations to reduce daily salt intake from 9–12g to...

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How his dentition helped to identify Richard III

Hourglass — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:38:30 +0100

Following the discovery of Richard III’s remains under a car park in Leicester, I was interested to spot an article in the British Dental Journal which describes how his dentition played an important part in confirming his identity. There were no surviving dental records for Richard III but the identity of his remains was confirmed by retrieving DNA samples from three of his molar teeth. The...

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