OBJECTIVE To provide information for community pharmacies considering implementation of a pharmacogenetic testing service. SETTING A single community pharmacy from a regional chain. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION Community pharmacists at the study site routinely provide pharmacy services including medication therapy management, immunizations, point-of-care testing, blood pressure monitoring, and diab...

Report of the 2013-2014 Academic Affairs Committee Jeff Cain, EdD, MS, Jeannine M. Conway, PharmD, Margarita V. DiVall, PharmD, Med, Brian L. Erstad, PharmD, Paul R. Lockman, PhD, John C. Ressler, EdD, Amy H. Schwartz, PharmD, Scott Stolte, PharmD, Ruth E. Nemire, PharmD, EdD a University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, Lexington, Kentucky b University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Minneap...

PHAR:1200 Medicines That Changed or Will Change the World 1 s.h. Herbal remedies and ancient traditional medicines have led to the discovery of life-saving drug therapies; as science has evolved, how the discovery of other important medicines have come about through advances in chemistry and biology and now through advances in computer science and informatics; students learn about the discovery...

BACKGROUND In Australia, the profession of pharmacy has undergone many changes to adapt to the needs of the community. In recent years, concerns have been raised with evidence emerging of workforce saturation in traditional pharmacy practice sectors. It is not known how current final year pharmacy students' perceive the different pharmacy career paths in this changing environment. Hence investi...

Pharmacy education in the United States is currently in a state of transition as the nation’s schools of pharmacy move from the five-year Bachelor of Science degree to the Doctor of Pharmacy degree. At this same time, applications to pharmacy schools have fallen for two consecutive years. Because of these trends, a potential concern for pharmacy educators is losing highly qualified students to ...

ph.G., Ph.D., Dean of Pharmacy in the Cleveland School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Pp. 1,175, with 246 Original Illustrations. Published by W. B. Saunders & Co., 1909. This monumental work, as the author stales in bis preface, is divided into seven parts. Part 1?Deals with pharmaceutical processes and a striking feature is the discussion of ...

MADALINA VIERIU1, GLADIOLA TANTARU1, MIHAI APOSTU1, ALINA DIANA PANAINTE1, LUMINITA AGOROAEI2*, LIVIA UNCU3, NELA BIBIRE1 1 ”Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, 16 University Str., 700115, Iasi, Romania 2 “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Toxicology,16 Universitatii Str., 700115, Iasi, Romania 3 ...

As part of an ongoing multi-year project investigating hospital-based clinical pharmacy services, the variation in clinical pharmacy services among hospitals with various teaching affiliations was studied. Survey documents, completed by the director of pharmacy, were completed for 1597 hospitals, representing 43 percent of the nation’s acute care general medical surgical hospitals. Hospitals we...

BACKGROUND This study assessed pharmacy performance and satisfaction as reported by patients during ovulation induction therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients (n = 1269) receiving gonadotropin prescriptions for intrauterine insemination or in vitro fertilisation-embryo transfer in 2007-2008 were prospectively interviewed by nurses and/or completed a structured questionnaire to evaluate pharm...

Copyright © 2005, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc. All rights reserved. 1079-2082/05/0402-0856$06.00. There is a pressing need to prepare health-system pharmacists for executive-level positions, motivate them to step into these roles and educate health-system administrators about the value a pharmacist in such a position could bring to his or her organization. To do this, the...