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healthcare providers. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approximately 1.3 million people experience either death or injury due to medication mishaps (medication error reports, 2009). Errors occur in all level of the healthcare field that can lead to someone’s death. However, pharmacists no matter what setting whether it’s anything from retail to manage care their responsibilities in preventing drug errors are significant. A Pharmacist is a drug expert they are the last person…

emergency room visits every year. Many doctors and “health experts argue that problems with supplements are so widespread that regulations should be tightened to protect public health” (Weeks). Prescriptions are needed and should be placed on every drug and supplement that is available to the consumer. The public needs to be told how to take the supplement, how much is an appropriate dose, when to take it, and what possible side effects there are. Consumers just assume that if a supplement is on…

Having been in community practice for quite some time, I have come to understand that packaging of a pharmaceutical product is a production process which every pharmaceutical companies that are into production should take as serious as the formulation process. Apart from its primary role of maintaining the integrity of a dosage form, it equally plays an invaluable role in the marketing strategy surrounding the product in question. What is packaging? Packaging can be best defined as the…

Solid lipid nanoparticles: Solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) were introduced in the early 1990s as a drug delivery system in order to overcome the drawbacks associated with the traditional colloidal dispersions. The core of SLNs consist of a lipid with a high melting point and is covered with amphiphilic surfactants that form the outer shell in which drug can be efficiently incorporated. They are commonly matrices of lipids, which maintain a solid state at room and body temperature…

spending on healthcare, people in the United States are still unable to afford the health care prices, particularly the need for prescription drugs. It is difficult for consumers who have already spent money on health coverage, and with high drug cost due to pharmaceuticals’ regulation on price increased the burden for patients to afford the drugs that they need. Drugs are created and manufactured by the pharmaceutical companies where they have the authority…

Johnson and Johnson is a company who has been around since 1886 with products ranging from baby items to pharmaceuticals. One of their bestselling products, a subsidiary, with over one hundred million users, Tylenol was responsible for 19 percent of Johnson & Johnson's corporate profits during the first few years of the company starting. Tylenol was the absolute leader in the painkiller field accounting for a 37 percent market share, outselling the next four leading painkillers combined,…

1. Reading through the chapter, it was mentioned that Wasson put the customers first when it came to Walgreen’s. He would do anything to hinder CVS’s image. It really showed how eager and determined he was. Wasson took up creating, presenting, and débuting the Walgreen’s app for phones consisted of many neat features, for the ease of the customer. An interesting feature is the text message alert indicating when prescriptions are ready to be picked up at the pharmacy. Many notable things Wasson…

The FDA is charged with protecting consumers, patients, and enhancing public health globally by maximizing compliance of FDA regulated drugs, products, and devices and minimizing risk associated with those products. While FDA’s overarching mission remains the same, it has added additional products to regulate and further expansion of its global reach. FDA is now responsibility for regulating the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products to protect the public health and to…

About 4,500 children may develop serious adverse effects involving life-threatening conditions, hospitalization, permanent disability, or death each year from vaccines ("Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System," n.d.). This a very high number of serious adverse effects per year. It is hard to understand that even with this number so high, discussion of the possible requirement of all children to have vaccines are in debate. Vaccines should not be required for children because the government…

One might assume that counterfeit pharmaceuticals wouldn’t pose as such a large problem due to stringent government programs such as the FDA. But, unfortunately, these drugs sneak under the FDA radar and aren’t regulated in the slightest. The FDA is the Food and Drug Administration and it is responsible for monitoring the safety, efficacy, quality and security of a variety of products distributed across America and other US territories. Their aim as an organization is to inform and educate…