Background: At the present time, teaching pharmacology for medical students mainly focuses on the basic principles of pharmacology. This study was conducted to assess the current situation of pharmacology teaching and the necessity of developing clinical pharmacology from the viewpoint of medical interns and externs in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-secti...

Terpenes are active constituents of many pharmaceutical dosage forms with naturalproducts origin. One of the challenges in developing dosage forms with herbal originis their standardization as pharmaceutical products. GC-Mass is the most decisive andreliable technique to fulfill the requirements in this regard. In the present study, a reliable,rapid, and accurate method was developed for determ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this article is to provide an outcome evaluation model for preparedness of pharmaceutical services (PS) in disaster situations. METHODS A five-step evaluation model development was conducted. The first step was a search of disaster preparedness and PS literature. The second step consisted of a description of the political and organizational aspects, external context, impl...

With the costs of pharmaceuticals increasing, steps need to be taken to modernize the approach process in order to reduce the cost of developing new medicines and increase the availability of new and better pharmaceuticals.

the present study was designed to develop a simple, validated liquid chromatographic method for the analysis of azithromycin in bulk and pharmaceutical dosage forms using ultraviolet detector. the best stationary phase was determined as c18 column, 5 µm, 250 mm × 4.6 mm. mobile phase was optimized to obtain a fast and selective separation of the drug. flow rate was 1.5 ml/min, wavelength was se...

1 Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 2 International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, Princeton, NJ, 3 BioMedCom Consultants inc., Montréal, Canada, 4 The Institute for Research & Education, HealthSystems Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 5 Merck Medco Managed Care, LLC, Montvale, NJ, 6 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 7 Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princet...

A number of Brazilian municipalities have been affected by disasters in recent years. Municipal managers need to invest in preparedness to mitigate the impact of events and to restrict damages. Disaster preparedness should be conducted on various fronts, including the health sector, of which pharmaceutical services (PS) are a part. The scope of this paper is to describe and analyze PS preparedn...

Not surprisingly, the wide range of effective medicinal agents available today is one of the greatest scientific achievements. Regardless of the advancements in effectiveness and safety of the medicines embedded in dosage forms, the pharmaceutical concept of the latter is growing to be ever more eminent (Adibkia et al., 2011). Following on from recent advancements, in a time of increased consid...

INTRODUCTION Pharmaceutical industry is no longer allowed to develop new medicines for use in adults only, as the 2007 Paediatric Regulation requires children to be considered also. The plans for such paediatric development called Paediatric Investigation Plans (PIPs) are subject to agreement by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and its Paediatric Committee (PDCO). The aim of this study was t...