CVS/pharmacy

Introduction In the year of 2004, 2.5 billion dollars of annual sales hit the blockbuster market on a pharmaceutical drug named Vioxx (Rofecoxib), which thousands of physicians prescribed to their patients worldwide (Medscape Medical News, 2004; Topol, 2004). The drug has shown an increase in heart attacks and strokes with suspiciousness to why leaders did not act earlier to withdraw the pharmaceutical drug from the market timely (Topol, 2004). The leaders involved were faced with more than a…

focuses only on Confederate pharmacies; Smith focuses on Union laboratories; Evans’ book offers little historical analysis and doesn’t place pharmaceutical care in a larger context of the time, despite its interesting and unique point of view; and Hasegawa’s essay serves as a summary of past work and an outline for future work. Michael A. Flannery’s book, Civil War Pharmacy, attempts to escape and outperform the previous historical narratives by assessing the evolution of pharmacy during the war…

Some aspects of pharmacy has been, constant- unchanged over a long time period of time. The first college of pharmacy in the United States was founded in 1821 as the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Many colleges followed after. No information was found about the establishment of the first pharmacy school in Mexico. Currently, there is eleven pharmacy schools in California and one-hundred thirty nine pharmacy schools in the United States. In Mexico, there is only four pharmacy schools. The…

Additionally, my graduate project and practical work in the Medicinal Chemistry Department in the final year of B.Sc. Pharmacy taught me how to behave in a laboratory, including key areas such as health and safety and a basis for good laboratory practice. This project was about design, chemical synthesis, and biological evaluation of small molecules as anti-proliferative…

1. Introduction The disparities in hypertension prevalence in various racial or ethnic groups exist since 1960, being highest in the non-Hispanic African-American adults . Apart from having higher prevalence of hypertension, this group reportedly has poor blood pressure control as compared to non-Hispanic whites , and poor adherence . One of the theories used to explain medication adherence behavior in patients with hypertension is Bandura’s Self-efficacy theory. Self-efficacy is the person’s…

Medication errors happen all the time, unfortunately. “According to a 2006 Institute of Medicine report, at least 1.5 million preventable medication-related adverse events occur in the Unites States every year, but the true number could be much higher” (Adams, S. C., Federwisch, M., & Ramos, H., 2014). The last straw in medication administration is the nurse. It is so important for the nurse to be very observant when administering medications, so that errors do not occur and lead to further…

Introduction In recent news Turing Pharmaceuticals has been on the news for raising the price on their medicine at skyrocketing costs. One in particular, is a medicine known as Daraprim which cost only $13.50 per tablet, saw an increased on its cost overnight by $736.50 dollars per tablet after being bought by Turing Pharmaceuticals. Daraprim is used in curing a parasitic infection that can be life threatening if left untreated.Turing Pharmaceuticals has obtain other older medicines and…

at a Walmart Super Center in Fort Worth, Texas. My shadowing began early that morning and ended around noon. This was my first time behind the pharmacy viewing a practicing community pharmacist. Many of her tasks for the day included immunizations, reviewing medications orders, counseling patients, and when orders became backed up she aided the pharmacy technician when available. There was an audit that day for immunization from the corporate level to make sure that all procedures and vaccines…

Medicine is essential during one’s life despite the culture, gender and age. Although these are beneficial to treat a patient’s sickness, there are many cases that the use of drugs are harmful and deleterious for the patient. In 1991, the Havard Medical Practice Study showed that there are multiple patients who are harmed or resulted some negative results after the medication. This medication error ranged from the minor impairment with complete recovery in a short time to death. Moreover, this…

the medications prescribed for patients contribute to the best possible health outcome” (ACCP). Clinical pharmacists typically work in a hospitals, outpatient clinic and nursing homes (ACCP). Nuclear Pharmacy is similar to Clinical pharmacy, as they do not have much patient interaction. Nuclear pharmacy careers are mostly in hospitals and imaging facilities. “Nuclear pharmacists are responsible for measuring and delivering the radioactive materials which are used in digital imaging (MRI, CT,…