Pharmaceutical drug

Pharmacy is a branch of health-care system which deals with the medicines, its dosage, drug delivery system, its effects on human body, and drug interactions. Pharmacy is a combination of chemical science and health science which ensures the effective and safe use of the medications. Since my childhood, my curiosity was developed in the field of medicinal science, which developed a keen interest to know mechanism of drugs on human body. During the course of my previous education, I was…

Pharmacy benefit managers are third-party pharmaceutical benefit administrators. They’re primary functions are processing and paying for prescribed pharmaceutical drugs. They also secure contracts with pharmacies, create lists of preferred pharmaceuticals called formularies, and make deals with manufacturers. Utilization management programs are implemented by pharmaceutical benefit managers to assure that client treatment is necessary. Utilization management helps observe the medical need for…

always magnificent. Just because a doctor prescribes a patient a drug, this does not mean that the patient should become ignorant to any alternative possibilities and just simply take the drug. Many lab produced, chemical, pharmaceuticals can be avoided by simply eating better, a lifestyle change,…

accepted medical use in 1970, the United States Congress placed marijuana under Schedule I of the “Controlled Substances Act”. A lot has changed since then because Washington DC, and 28 of the 50 US states have legalized the medical use of marijuana (Drug Policy Alliance, 2016). In recent years, medical marijuana has provided a source of contentious debate in the US. Questions have arisen on whether patients should be allowed to grow their plants or if the medical use of marijuana could…

Marijuana being a new cure that helps patients with illnesses instead of pharmaceutical drugs helping the patients die quicker. As we know the cost of pharmaceutical drugs are going up in price by the minute, but there have been some studies that Marijuana is helping more patients and its less cost effective then medicine. We know that many people are against marijuana drug, and we have a lot of politicians that are fighting that this drug to be more harmful then good for patients. Many States…

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 that drug…

PHARMACEUTICAL CARE Pharmaceutical care: Pharmaceutical care is a professional service provided to patients delivered by qualified, registered and trained pharmacist in clinical, community and hospital settings. The main aim of Pharmaceutical care is ensure the best standards of practice while using medicines and health care to achieve the optimized predetermined safety and efficacy goals. Historical background of Pharmaceutical care The emergence of pharmaceutical care begins in 1960s in USA…

change The Legacy Hopewell House has gone to a new system of disposing pharmaceuticals. The old system allowed for medication to be disposed of in the trash, sink, toilet, or sharps container. The new system, called the Cactus Smart Sink (CSS), allows for disposal in an environmentally safe and non-retrievable way. CSS utilizes a dual canister system that allows for disposal of both solid and liquid pharmaceuticals. Once the drug is placed into the canister it is rendered unretrievable by…

Deontological Study of Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising May 10, 2001, a semi-truck rolls down Interstate 71 carrying a load of steel headed for Detroit. The driver, a 49 year old healthy man with a touch of arthritis, drinks his tea and listens to the radio and he rumbles down the highway. Shifting gears ca be hard on a man with arthritis in the knees, so his physician prescribed the well-advertised drug Vioxx. Phil had seen Dorothy Hamill advertise the drug on television, and…

medicine that I must inform you about. Pharmaceutical companies have been overcharging the ill for life-saving medicine for years. Many of those with terminal illnesses who have suffered under a bad hand from fate have been unable to afford the medicine they need to survive because of the astronomical prices placed on them by companies. Why? They struggle to pay for basic needs such as food, water, and clothes let alone medicines with their inability to work. And the drug makers in return, earn…