OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of two primary care strategies for delivering evidence based care to people aged 55 or over with knee pain: enhanced pharmacy review and community physiotherapy. DESIGN Pragmatic multicentre randomised clinical trial. SETTING 15 general practices in North Staffordshire. PARTICIPANTS 325 adults aged 55 years or over (mean 68 years) consulting with k...

* Department of pharmaceutcal, College of Pharmacy, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq. Introduction Herbal medicine is a traditional or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants’ seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, flowers and plant extracts for medicinal purposes. Plants are important sources of medicine for thousands of years and are the most important source of life saving drug...

1 Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University, Staudinger Weg 5, 55128 Mainz, Germany 2Department of Clinical Oncology, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 149 Sangil-dong, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 134-727, Republic of Korea 3 Department of Medical Oncology, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan 4H...

1. Pharm. D, Dept. of Pharmacy Practice, Deccan School of Pharmacy, Hyd-01. [E-mail: [email protected]] 2. Pharm. D Incharge, H.O.D. Dept. of Pharmacy Practice, Deccan School of Pharmacy, Hyd-01. [E-mail: [email protected]; Tel: +919573141136] 3. Pharm. D Professor, Dept. of Pharmacy Practice, Deccan School of Pharmacy, Hyd-01. [E-mail: [email protected]; Tel: +91-8688501638] 4. Pharm. D, D...

since late 1960s, pharmacists in the usa and england have started a professional movement towards a more efficient presence in clinical wards of hospitals. a similar movement has started in developed european countries during the past decade. pharmacists are convinced of the need for them to play their role as drug consultants and pharmacotherapy advisers to make decisions on drug therapy probl...

Department of Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Dalian Medical University, China (A.Z., C.W., Q.L., Q.M., J.P., H.S., X.M., X.H., K.L) Provincial Key Laboratory for Pharmacokinetics and Transport, Liaoning, Dalian Medical University, China (C.W., Q.L., Q.M., J.P., H.S., X.M., K.L) Research Institute of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine of Dalian Medical University, Liaoning,...

the aim of this study was to provide a clinical pharmacy education program at masih daneshvari hospital, a university affiliated hospital, located in tehran, iran. for this purpose, the most common pharmacist involved interventions and aspects of potential fields for pharmacy students and residents education was firstly identified. clinical pharmacy interventions and drug information forms were...

background: drugs play a strategic role as a health commodity. thus, the supply chain management of drugs is an important issue to reducing costs and thereby improving patient health. objective: this study evaluated the status of drug supply chain management and health reform in the pharmaceutical sector of teaching hospitals in ahvaz, iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out i...

1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia. 2 Faculty of Pharmacy, Ajman University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates. 3 Department of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Postgraduate Medicine, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. 4 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, College of Clinical Phar...