Use of official health services often remains low despite great efforts to improve quality of care. Are informal treatments responsible for keeping a number of patients away from standard care, and if so, why? Through a questionnaire survey with proportional cluster samples, we studied the case histories of 952 children in Bandiagara and Sikasso areas of Mali. Most children with reported uncomp...

After the boom of pharmacological research during the 1950s, mainly as a result of the screening technique, the identification of active molecules, their reshaping by means of pharmaco-chemical drug design, and the creation of extremely efficacious and successful medicines, the pharmaceutical world sought a new source of inspiration. Such biota as the tropical forest, a quantity of plants credi...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical drug promotion is a means of informing health professionals about new drugs. The approach is often times unethical and inappropriate and may promote irrational prescribing. Dearth of information on impact of pharmaceutical drug promotion on prescribing behaviour of doctors in developing African countries has necessitated this study. We therefore aimed to determine the ...

BACKGROUND Pharmacists can provide beneficial pharmaceutical care services to patients receiving Parenteral Nutrition (PN) therapy by working within Nutrition Support Teams (NSTs). OBJECTIVE This study was designed to explore pharmacists' role in PN therapy in hospitals of Kuwait, sources of PN-related information, opinions on NSTs, perceptions about the barriers to pharmaceutical care implem...

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 dile...

The growing prevalence of telecomputing technologies presents instructors with a wide range of options for enhancing the learning experience of students in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacy curricula, particularly in large-class settings. However, this wealth of technological resources consists largely of discrete tools developed for purposes other than instruction, and therefore instruc...

in this work, the optimization calculations were carried out on quetiapine hemifumarat, 4, and its analogues, 1-5. these calculations were carried out using the b3lyp/6-31g(d) level of theory. the dft calculations clarified a boat structure for dibenzothiazepine moiety of the molecule which piperazine moiety has a chair conformation. thermal energies (e), enthalpies (h), and free energies (g) o...

this commentary explores the implications of increased social media marketing by drug manufacturers, based on findings in hyosun kim’s article of the major themes in recent food and drug administration (fda) warning letters and notices of violation regarding online direct-to-consumer promotions of pharmaceuticals. kim’s rigorous analysis of fda letters over a 10-year span highlights a relative ...

this paper discussed the application of information and communication technology (ict) in pharmaceutical product marketing in nigeria. data for the study was obtained from 76 pharmaceutical firms in southwest nigeria which comprised of about 95% of the pharmaceutical companies that were into manufacturing of drugs in nigeria. the categories of firms surveyed include retail pharmacy, combination...