Harmonization of pharmacy education has to be made a global agenda that will encompass the developments that have taken place in basic, medical, pharmaceutical sciences in serving the needs and expectations of the society. The professional pharmacy curriculum is designed to produce pharmacists who have the abilities and skills to provide drug information, education, and pharmaceutical care to p...

Internationally, pharmaceutical products (FP) are authorized after their risk-benefit profile has been assessed, taking into account efficacy, safety and quality parameters. In 2009, it was established in Peru that all pharmaceutical products to be commercialized should show proof of their efficacy and safety. According to the new regulation, in effect as of 2012, the pharmaceutical specialties...

Patient care consists of integrated domains of care, including medical care, nursing care, and pharmaceutical care. The provision of pharmaceutical care involves not only medication therapy but decisions about medication selection, dosages, routes and methods of administration, medication therapy monitoring, and the provision of medication-related information and counseling to individual patien...

The main objective of this paper was to develop a simple, sensitive and validated UV spectrophotometric method for the determination of chloroquine sulphate in pharmaceutical formulations. The aqueous solution of chloroquine sulphate absorbed maximally at 220 nm performed at room temperature (25 ± 1oC). Under optimized experimental conditions, Beer’s law was obeyed in the concentration range of...

The authors evaluate the implications of product photosensitivity and how it influences various aspects of product development. They discuss a product photosensitivity classification system and present a photosensitive pharmaceutical product case study. hotostability testing in the pharmaceutical industry has evolved rapidly, particularly since the May 1997 publication of the ICH Q1B guidance “...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of pharmacist intervention on the prevention and solution of drug therapyproblems (DTP), Body Mass Index (BMI), and blood pressure control in elderly outpatients with hypertension. The instruments were applied to 30 elderly outpatients assisted at the pharmacy of a primary health care unit in Ribeirão Preto (SP), Brazil. The group of patients...

modern biotechnology and genetic engineering using techniques and special ‎laboratory tools plays an important role in the pharmaceutical industry and medicinal ‎plant propagation. among these techniques, it can be noted that a wide range of ‎elicitors are widely used for inducing metabolites at invitro culture. due to the ‎pharmaceutical properties of artichoke and its history, it has been dee...