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General interest
Science
Practice
 
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 Getting the message across: communicating risk and benefit to patients
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 Predicting safety benefits and risks in drug development red bullet point The review of the new contract framework
 
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 Balancing risk and regulation: the increasing role of patients and pharmacists orange bullet point Risk management: the key to pharmaceutical quality red bullet point Statins as an early intervention: public health
versus individual choice
    Regulation and balance: cost benefit analysis orange bullet point Therapeutic biomolecules and vaccines: reducing future risk red bullet point Squaring the circle: protecting pharmacists and patients
 
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 Ensuring the safety of herbal
medicines: pharmacovigilance and interactions with drugs		 orange bullet point Cox-2 inhibitors: blood, guts, fashion and politics red bullet point Getting the right balance for OTC medicines
  green bullet point Prevention better than cure? orange bullet point New scientists: recent advances in pharmaceutical science red bullet point From prescribing to plastic surgery in community pharmacy: opportunity and risk in a permissive age
 
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 Prevention versus treatment
following the emerging pattern of blindness in the Western World		 orange bullet point Quality by design: mitigating risk in drug development red bullet point Thinking outside of the box: communicating risks and benefits to people in special groups
    orange bullet point Reducing the risks of counterfeit red bullet point Supervision and responsible pharmacists
    orange bullet point From genomics to medicine red bullet point Always read the leaflet: improving the readability of patient information leaflets
    orange bullet point Challenges in drug delivery red bullet point The risks and benefits of self-administration of medicines in hospital
    orange bullet point Cutting-edge drug design red bullet point From Manchester to Malta: communicating to patients across Europe
 

orange bullet point Inhalation and drug delivery red bullet point Ask about medicines: what about the children?
    orange bullet point Risks and benefits: drug evaluation in the 21st Century red bullet point Pharmacists with a special interest
    orange bullet point Nanotechnology in drug delivery and medicine red bullet point Pharmacy in a secure environment
    orange bullet point Myths, rumours and evidence red bullet point Errors and risk: what is the link?
    orange bullet point Herbal medicinal products red bullet point Debate: Friend or foe? The media’s reporting of risks and benefits
    orange bullet point Pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical chemistry    
    orange bullet point Genotoxic impurities    
    orange bullet point Debate: Homoeopathy or allopathy – which one would you choose?    
         
  Speakers at BPC 2007 will include:
     
  green bullet point Professor Nick Barber, Head of the Department of Practice and Policy, The School of Pharmacy, University of London
  green bullet point Professor Alison Blenkinsopp, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Keele University
  green bullet point Professor Nigel Brown, Director, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
  green bullet point Harry Cayton, National Director for Patients and the Public, Department of Health
  green bullet point Professor Sir Colin Dollery, Senior Consultant, GlaxoSmithKline
  green bullet point Dr Ben Goldacre, Author, Bad Science Column, The Guardian
  green bullet point Professor Chris Hawkey, Professor of Gastroenterology, University of Nottingham
  green bullet point Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, Minister of State for Quality, Department of Health
  green bullet point Dr Carole Longson, Director, Health Technology Evaluation Centre, NICE
  green bullet point Professor Theo Raynor, Practice Chairman BPC 2007
  green bullet point Joanne Rule, Chief Executive, CancerBACUP
  green bullet point Olivia Timbs, Editor, The Pharmaceutical Journal
  green bullet point Peter White, Broadcaster
  green bullet point Professor Clive Wilson, Science Chairman BPC 2007
  green bullet point Professor Kent Woods, Chief Executive, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
         
  Working with others:
  BPC is a multi-disciplinary event and the 2007 programme was developed in conjunction with the following organisations:
     
  green bullet point Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences green bullet point Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
  green bullet point British Pharmacological Society green bullet point National Pharmacy Association
  green bullet point Company Chemists’ Association green bullet point Prison Pharmacists’ Forum
  green bullet point European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences green bullet point Sense About Science
  green bullet point Hospital Pharmacists Group green bullet point The Pharmacists’ Defence Association
  green bullet point Industrial Pharmacists Group green bullet point UKI Controlled Release Society
  green bullet point Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group  
     
 
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