Lithium pharmacology

As a child growing up in Bamenda, the capital of the North West Province in Cameroon, I witnessed at a very young age the devastating effects of the lack of adequate health care. The situation was further complicated by the illness of my grandmother who is the inspiration behind my desire to pursue a degree in pharmacy. Given our very close relationship, her illness gravely affected me. Initially, I guessed it was just old age, and she would get better, but the symptoms worsened overtime.…

When administered, sugammadex forms a water-soluble complex with aminosteroid non-depolarizing agents, thereby reversing NMB.22 Sugammadex has an affinity for aminosteroids as follows: rucoronium> vecuronium> pancuronium.1 Specifically, sugammadex is 2.5 times more selective for rocuronium than vecuronium.23 Sugammadex acts three to eight times faster than neostigmine to reverse a NMB.24 Due to its highly selective reversal of rocuronium-induced NMB, there is a new but growing interest in…

2.1. Na-ion Batteries (NIBs) Na-based batteries are not new. Back to the 1970s, Na-ion and Li-ion batteries were investigated in parallel.5,6 The investigation of Na-ion batteries significantly decreased after the success of commercial application of Li-ion batteries in the 1990s. Na-ion batteries have a very similar working principle as the Li-ion batteries. As shown in Figure 2.1, each electrochemical cell is basically composed of a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a membrane…

of Chemistry describes this evolution through stages. Initially, knowledge of herbalism from the Chinese and Greeks laid the foundation for the growth of empirical knowledge in Europe and the Middle East. However, it wasn’t until the 1800s that pharmacology was founded when European scientists began to study the active ingredients in substances. This, coupled with organic chemistry (which began with the production of urea), really pushed the science towards its present form. Soon, companies like…

The biases that medical community composed is something a very huge in our society today. They have this believe that the medical community knows everything that good for us and our children throughout in our society. They think mother do not know anything about their children’s health condition because she or he had not been medical school to some degree she may not know that terminology of the medical but she knows how her child feeling and what is good for him or her. The medical community…

There has been drug shortages of chemotherapeutic agents, which is an issue that has been affecting patients with cancer. The article Drug Shortages and the Burden of Access to Care: A Critical Issue Affecting Patients with Cancer, brings awareness about pharmaceutical drug shortages in the United States. Shortages of drugs have affected how health care is delivered, which has caused many problems to arise with patient care. The article brings attention and targets the public about the impact…

After researching certain organizations throughout the many roles within the pharmaceutical field, I had never realized all the options as a student that I have. Though I still do not know what I want to do as a pharmacist, I did find a couple professional organizations in which I would fit in well. In fact there is one in particular that I thoroughly enjoyed after researching about which is the pediatric pharmacy association also known as PPAG. Before doing this research I had never heard of…

Porter’s Five Forces Model Analysis On AYURVET LIMITED Company Profile Ayurvet Limited (Formerly known as Dabur Ayurvet limited) established in 1992, is a leading Animal Healthcare company specialised in 100% safe and natural products. Ayurvet became a standalone company in 2002, solely dedicated to animal health and nutrition. It is classified as Non-govt Company and…

Topic / profession Medicines counter assistant Level 1 Scheduled / unscheduled Scheduled Experience / reference IPP placement (community) year 1 Date: January 2016 Student Name: Katherine Greene Student ID: 9543606 Background reading The General Pharmaceutical Society has some information: (http://pharmacyregulation.org/education/support-staff ) Inter-professional team questions: 1. What does a medicines counter assistant do? A medicines counter assistant is involved in the sale of…

According to the case presented by Donnellon and Margolis (2009), MediSys was a small company that manufactured medical monitoring systems for hospitals. It was founded in 2002, and up until 2008, had been successful. However, the board of directors began to notice an early pattern of slow growth, while two other competitors were moving into the same major markets, launching products that were to compete with IntenseCare, their most recent product. This case takes place six months before the…