Editor's Column — Scribbles
We have another issue of Scribe to celebrate! Soliciting articles is a tough job and I wish to thank the following volunteers who contributed articles for this issue...click here for more

The Brighton Collaboration to Enhance Immunization Safety: A potential model for other Realms of Safety?
The Brighton Collaboration is a successful international voluntary collaboration to facilitate the development, evaluation, and dissemination of high quality information about the safety of human vaccines...click here for more

COMMITTEE UPDATES

Good Epidemiology Practice Guidelines Committee
The Committee on Good Pharmacoepidemiology has been active on two high priority tasks charged by the Board: Updating the Good Pharmacoepidemiology Practice Guidelines, and launching the development of Risk Management Guidelines...click here for more

Improvisé ISPE's Visibility — The First Step
By Yola Moride, FISPE
Chair, ISPE Public Relations Committee...click here for more

Call for Task Force Members — ADE Reporting
The ISPE Board of Directors recently approved the formation of an ad hoc task force to develop guidelines for submitting adverse drug event (ADE) reports to professional journals...click here for more

REPORT FROM MEETINGS

Report from a FDA Advisory Committee meeting
By Lois La Grenade MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Division of Drug Risk Evaluation, FDA/CDER..click here for more

CHANGING BEHAVIORS: How do we do it? How do we know when we’ve done it?
The ISPE symposium on "Changing Behaviors: How do we do it? How do we know when we’ve done it?" was held in Baltimore, April 19, 2004. There were over 140...click here for more

Students Gather at Mid-Year Meeting in Baltimore
Kevin Haynes represented ISPE students on behalf of Nicole Hartnell at the ISPE board meeting in Baltimore...click here for more

SNOMED Question for ISPE Members
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is attempting to evaluate the SNOMED CT terminology...click here for more

Input Sought on Establishment of ISPE Distinguished Scientist Award
ISPE currently presents annual student awards (including the Stanley Edlavitch Award) to the best student abstracts submitted to the annual meeting...click here for more

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By Robert C Nelson
I received my pharmacy degree from Long Island University's Brooklyn College of Pharmacy back when... click here for more

BOOK REVIEW

New Book "Medicines out of Control? Antidepressants and the Conspiracy of Goodwill"
Calls for an overhaul of the "secretive and profoundly inadequate system of medicines control", are made in a new book 'Medicines out of Control?' launched in March 2004...click here for more

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

A New Training Option at the University of Maryland
What do you chose for training in Pharmacoepidemiology, a degree in Pharmacy or Epidemiology? Now students do not have to choose...click here for more

Johns Hopkins Summer Pharmacoepidemiology Course
This year’s course will be taught by Harry A. Guess, MD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology in the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Public Health, and Director of the UNC GlaxoSmithKline Center of Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology...click here for more