CPJ · RPC Canadian Pharmacists Association
Table of Contents 2004 Vol 137, No. 9

OPINION

Editorial
Risk-sharing plan for MDs is bad policy
Polly Thompson

Éditorial
Le régime de récompense pour les médecins laisse à désirer

Guest Editorial
Rofecoxib announcement could have long-term implications
Alan J. Forster

Commentary
OTC statins: opportunity or threat?
William Semchuk, Jeffrey G. Taylor, Ross T. Tsuyuki

Letters to the Editor
Bev Harris, Charles D. Bayliff, Ron Marcinkoski, Jack Hoffman

PULSE - News This Month

Proposed deal on Rx costs garners mixed reviews

Nova Scotia boosts Rx monitoring body

Workplace support for asthma management

17% cut from NIHB hurts BC pharmacists

Sales curb a possibility to fight crystal meth

Medications in the news

Drug supply threatened, claims coalition

FEATURES

Spotlight on Research
Pharmacists deliver anticoagulation therapy
Tammy Bungard

Practice Spotlight
Patient tool in combination antiplatelet Rx
Margaret Ackman, Wendy Gordon, Heather Kertland, Don Kuntz, Jennifer Pickering, and Ann Thompson

Pharmacists break ground at asthma camp
Shannan L. Neubauer, Charity D. Evans, and Sarah S. Jacques

Are we ready for prescriptive authority? Lessons from the self-care example
Roy Dobson, Jeffrey G. Taylor, Larry D. Lynd

DEPARTMENTS

Product update
Denis Bélanger

Focus on Patient Care
Non-prescription painkillers and chronic liver disease
Ellen Fan and Scott Gavura

Focus on Error Prevention
Consign handwritten prescriptions to the past
Ian Stewart

Alternative Medicine
Blue cohosh toxic during pregnancy
Mario Bédard

Journal Club
Rofecoxib data on CV effects were troubling for years
Susan Pierce

SPONSORED COLUMNS

Dialogue on Diabetes
Taking the fear out of insulin
Don Rusnak

Ask Your Pharmacist
Diagnosing osteoporosis
Sherry Hertz

Treating osteoporosis
Sherry Hertz

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