The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) Guidance for the Handling of Gene Medicines

A new issue of our favorite journal is out there for us all to read. The EJHP European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy - Practice and the EJHP European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy - Science. The section we like more, the country focus, is dedicated to Sweden (Country focus: Hospital Pharmacy in Sweden).

THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN SWEDEN
CLINICAL PHARMACY IN SWEDEN
APODOS: THE SWEDISH MODEL OF MULTI-DOSE
INTERVIEW WITH JOAKIM PETTERSSON, POLITICAL ADVISER AT THE SWEDISH MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS

We think that the the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) guidance for the handling of gene medicines, is very important and an article published once in a decade. We must translate this guide to all the languages of the European Union!

Congradulations to the authors (Arnold G Vulto, PharmD, PhD; Nicola Stoner, BSc (Hons), MRPharmS, Dip Clin Pharm, PhD; Hana Balásová, PharmD; Ana-Cristina Cercos, PharmD, PhD; Torsten Hoppe-Tichy, PhD; Juan L Vinent Genestar, PharmD; Kirsi Kontra, PharmLic; Per Nydert, MScPharm8; András Vermes, PharmD, PhD; Andrea Wolfsberger, PharmD)

The article is here: http://www.eahp.eu/upload/ejhp/CoverStory29-39.pdf

Google says working to solve health record dilemma

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc aims to apply Web search technology to a general set of health information problems and remains committed to the market despite slow initial progress, an executive said on Wednesday.

"We do have a broad interest in this area," Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of Search Products & User Experience, told Internet industry leaders at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. "It will start with search."

Mayer said engineers stumbled onto Google's potential role in the field by noticing the number of searches users perform with its Web search services for hard-to-diagnose health problems, often simply by typing symptoms into a Web browser.

"Google is not a doctor, but people come to us with a lot of health information searches," Mayer told the audience of several hundred executives, financiers and writers. "There is a big user information need, which we should ultimately fill."


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For more info: REUTERS
Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:48am EDT, By Eric Auchard

Join the energy revolution!

Renewing the UK National Health System

The UK has launched a review of the National Health Service (NHS) to examine the impact of technology and lifestyle choices on the nation's well-being and to make the system more fair, personal and effective.

Launching the review, UK Premier Gordon Brown also announced the creation of a new health innovation fund.

"Our vision...is an NHS that not only provides a personal service that is organised around the needs of the patients but one that is pioneering new cures for the future. Renewing the NHS is my most immediate priority in the job that I hold,'' said UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown as he launched a reportexternal setting out the Government's vision for the country's future health service.

The interim report, NHS next stage review external , published on 4 October 2007, sets out a 10-year vision for the British health service. The report looks at how the NHS can become fairer, more personalised, effective and safe and sets out actions that should be taken to make progress towards that vision. "This interim report is the start of developing this vision for the next ten years," said Lord Darzi, author of the report.

Led by the new health minister, Lord Ara Darzi, the review will examine the impact of technology and lifestyle choices on the nation's well-being, and will look to make the NHS more responsive and better able to serve the needs of the public. The final part of the review setting out how the vision can be delivered will be published in spring 2008.


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http://www.euractiv.com/en/health/uk-rethinks-national-health-service/article-167392