Background The introduction of pharmaceutical care in Nigeria has been faced with many challenges in addition to limited information regarding the practice. Objective This study aimed to determine the barriers encountered by community pharmacists in Nigeria in the provision of pharmaceutical care. Methods A cross-sectional descriptive survey was carried out in Enugu urban, southeast Nigeria...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical care is defined as the responsible provision of medication therapy to achieve definite outcomes that improve patients' quality of life. Pharmacy education should equip students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to practise pharmaceutical care competently. OBJECTIVE To investigate pharmacy students' attitudes towards pharmaceutical care, perceptions ...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical representatives provide medicines information on their promoted products to doctors. However, studies have shown that the quality of this information is often low. No study has assessed the medicines information provided by pharmaceutical representatives to doctors in Malaysia and no recent evidence in Australia is present. We aimed to compare the provision of medicine...

The Medical and Pharmaceutical Statistics Research Unit (MPS) (www.mps-research.com) is directed by Professor Anne Whitehead and undertakes collaborative research with the pharmaceutical industry and medical research institutes. The post is offered for a two year period in the first instance. MPS is funded by grants from the MRC North West Hub for Trials Methodology Research (NWHTMR), the US Na...

Two courses, advanced decision-making and pharmaceutical marketing, were combined in a collaborative process to mimic how the pharmaceutical industry determines the potential of new drugs. Integrated student teams worked together to complete semester-long projects and taught each other their respective knowledge areas—marketing and statistics. Real-world data for medical and pharmacy claims pay...

pharmaceutical industry is currently undergoing a transient phase with new orientation. loss of financial resources, presence of new therapeutic agents and increasing cost of research and development have called for a full.scale restructuring within the pharmaceutical industry to retain even the most basic competitiveness. the development of new technologies has been as one way out of the dilem...

Department of Biochemistry, Paulista School of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo São Paulo/SP, Brazil. Clinical and Toxicological Analysis Department, São Paulo University of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sao Paulo/SP, Brazil. Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, São Paulo University São Paulo/ SP, Brazil. Heart Institute (InCor), São Paulo University Medical School, São Paulo/ SP, Brazil...

Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology (X.G., H.J., B.J.N.), National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (X.G., B.J.N.), Department of Statistics (A.L., D.N.), Department of Genetics, Development, and Cellular Biology (L.L.), Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics (X.Z.), and Center for Metabolic Biolog...