Pharmaceutical industry

I was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of fifteen. I had just arrived in the U.S. after having lived as a refugee in the Philippines, where the disease was prevalent. Though I was prescribed with nine months of antibiotic treatment, I was thankful that at least I did not have the scar on my parents’ shoulders, a result of smallpox vaccinations which I once believed marked them as “Vietnamese boat refugees.” Throughout my treatment, my pharmacist made a great impact toward my wellbeing. She…

Introduction Drenches is a liquid formulation for oral administration that is used to kill internal and external parasites especially in sheep. It is used in the worm control on any farms. Drenches is also known as anthelmintics as they contain active ingredients that kill the helminths in the stomach. Basically, there are three major types of drenches which are the suspensions, solutions and emulsions. (P.Junquera, 2015) Drenches can be a “broad spectrum” when they treat an extensive range of…

2.1. Substitution of herbal drugs Pratinidhi is a unique concept about the practice of substitute a herbal drug in the absence of an original drug (Murthy, 2004; Sharma, 2007). The word ‘Pratinidhi’ means representation, substitute or vicegerent (Apte, 2006). The concept of ‘Pratinidhi dravyas’ (Drug substitutes) can be traced from the ancient works like Bhavaprakasha by Bhavmishra in 16th century, Yogaratnakara by an unknown author in 17th century and Bhaishajya ratnavali by Govind Das in 14th…

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…

To study the tolerability of the analgesic autoinjector in the non-rodents( rabbit) by analysing biochemical parameters. 8.1 Introduction The objective of drug discovery and drug delivery system is to treat infections and particularly pain and suffering during the ailments and thereby maintaining a healthy human population. Any development in medical field is evaluated using a variety of clinical procedures prior introducing to humans. In pharmacological research, animal usage has become a…

Drugs are horrible things that can tear families apart. However, there are drugs that are prescribed to millions, every day. Prescribed medication can help strengthen the person, and bring families together. You often wonder where the line lays between prescription drugs and illegal ones. The legal drugs have many side effects, and can be as dangerous as the illegal ones. Heroin and Oxycodone have similarities. Yet, one is legal and the other is not. It’s insane how the one is much more…

The problem that manifests in South Africa especially amongst teenagers in the society is drug abuse. I say this because teenagers in schools have a habit of using drugs to stimulate their performance, build up their self-esteem or because of peer pressure and none of these should be happening in schools as drugs are illegal and they have negative effects for their bodies. Drug abuse is the excessive use of a substance that is illegal either alcohol or drugs, this leads the teen to be dependent…

957 which replaces the previous good practices for national control for pharmaceutical laboratories, 36th Report - Annex 3 of the World Health Organization Official Reports Sequences, No. 902, 2002. This guidance needs to be followed by all pharmaceutical laboratories for quality control, but excluding biologic product, because there is a different guideline called the good practices for pharmaceutical microbiology laboratories Reference QAS/09, 297 by…

They all have the qualifications to accurately research and report on studies that were done regarding human health and pharmaceutical use. The authors may have a bias on the matter due to the fact that they are from a far more liberal university, and therefore it is possible that the research that the authors conducted was focused mainly on the positive aspects of the drug.…

CC Sara is a 41-year-old female here today complaining of right wrist pain. HPI The patient had prior trauma to her wrist, resulting in a right radial fracture, treated with surgery by Dr. Eberhart in February of 2014. Since then, she tells me, once she recovered from that, she had been doing reasonably well. About a week and a half ago, she says she fell on her wrist. She tripped. She immediately felt pain, as well as there was swelling in the right wrist as well. She went to an urgent…