Pharmaceutical drug

Herbal remedies are fast becoming popular even in our generation where everything seems to be governed by science. Herbal remedies or herbal medicine can be the first thing we try whenever we notice something wrong with our system, such as cough and colds. There are also times when we use herbs as our last resort, for example after we haven taken too many fat-burning pills. We also use different herbal remedies for more serious ailments from ulcer and kidney stones to reproductive problems and…

Cameroon led to the destruction of our drug store in the Market. I was harrassed and beaten almost to death by the army of the Cameroonian government, who threatened my life since I was a member of the SCNC. I left Limbe my home town to Douala after a lot of frustration to seek refuge with my extended family. In Douala, I was fortunate to have a full-time job as a medical laboratory scientist at Polyclinic Muna, while I worked part-time for evergreen (a natural drugs agency) as a sales agent. I…

opportunity to utilize my past skills and training. I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about my work history, education, and skills. My work history includes a wide and diverse range of experiences. Currently, I am working at a long care pharmaceutical in the compliance/triage department. My main job is to contact physicians on narcotic prescriptions to receive a hard copy within the required time frame. I also run controlled prescription logs and proof scripts to ensure that…

To meet the ever increasing demands for improved quality of life, a number of pharmaceutical researchers have developed a variety of dosage forms and the oral route has always been the most preferred means of drug administration due to the ease, high patient compliance and low cost of production. In spite of a variety of dosage forms, tablets are most commonly adopted dosage form. The class II drugs have low solubility issues which results in poor dissolution rate and bioavailability[1,2].…

healthcare providers and patients in person and by phone, answer questions and requests, refer inquiries to the pharmacist. I also maintain pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level , anticipating needed medications and supplies, place and expedite orders,verifies receipt and remove outdated drugs. She said I organize medications for pharmacist to dispense by reading medication orders and prescriptions, preparing labels,calculating quantities. Betty said i…

Summary The Medicated Child (2008) documentary addresses the prevailing issue of medicating or overly medicating children. Frontline initially reported on the rising epidemic in 2001, however this film focuses on their follow up documentary in 2008. The film follows families and children longitudinally to attempt to find out the long term effects of behaviorally modifying medication use. The film describes that nearly one million children in the years leading to 2008 when the documentary was…

accurate. In my view, I agree that we should eliminate animal testing because the results may be successful on animals but can cause death in humans. However, I can see why many are for animal testing because there have been several case studies where drugs were medically accurate for human consumption. One reason animal testing should be removed is that animals and humans are different in anatomy and in the way the body functions. Humans have a profoundly complex…

amount needs to be verified. There are certain protocols to do with different medications as far as verifying the dose. For example, insulin dosage must be checked by two RN’s before it can be given to a patient. This is because, insulin has a high risk drug. Dosage amount is important, because the patient needs enough medication for it to be effective, but not too much to put the patient at risk for toxicity. Medications are given at certain time intervals to help the medications react…

On Wednesday 29th April 2014, I was assigned to the same four patients I had the day prior. One of my patients was admitted for sepsis of the R) knee following a total knee joint replacement two months prior. He was a 67 year old Maori gentleman, MRSA positive with a history of gout, hypertension, GORD, bilateral total hip joint replacements and R) sided weakness following a MVA in 2011. During handover, it was stated to us that this patient was due to have his IVABs at both 1300 and 1400.…

It sounds a bit bizarre telling a person that their smell sense, or more precisely one particular scent can make them fill better (or worse!). Is this even possible? According to the aromatherapists, it sure is! Nowadays, we have a whole industry devoted to the production of a wide range of beautiful fragrances, but from ancient times aromas were considered to be powerful alternative medicine tools. Scientist have proven that different fragrances have miscellaneous, but nonetheless powerful…