EXPERTS EXCHANGE IDEAS AT GLOBAL PHARMA MEET

Saturday, 15 February 2014 | Dehradun
Dozens of pharma specialists from India and abroad held discussions and ideas over the current trends in the discipline of pharmaceutical sciences and threw light and expressed their perceptions over the recent research assignments conducted in the field of pharma education and discipline in the 2-day ‘International Conference on Pharmaceutical Science’ (ICPS-2014) that was started in Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Technology and Science (SGRRITS) in Dehradun on Friday.

After inaugurating the first conference of its kind in the Uttarakhand,  President of Pharmacy Council of India Dr B Suresh highlighted the significance of ‘Pharm-D’ course. He said that in foreign countries, ‘Pharm-D’ course is very much popular and opted by a large number of students and said that Pharm-Ddegree holders can seek employment in hospitals as clinical practitioners.

In foreign countries, Pharm-D students are playing quite a significant role in patient care. He emphasised that pharmacy professional have their own crucial role in clinical services. Speaking on the occasion, vice-president of Centre for Responsible Nutrition, USA, Dr James Griffith provided useful information about conventional and herbal medicines. A day will come when the herbal medicines of today will be the patents of tomorrow. The way the Ayurvedic, Unani and traditional Chinese medicines are gaining popularity, the time has come for the herbal medicines also to be patented.

3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Biowaivers and Biosimilars

DPA wishes you a Happy New Year 2014..!!

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Dear Pharm.Ds,

On behalf of  Doctor of Pharmacy Association, we would like to extend our warm New Year Greetings to all  the Pharmacists throughout the Country.

We wish that the New Year will bring health & wealth as well as Unity in Diversity. Let us plan and work smart in all our undertakings. At the same time, let us be united like a Family of Pharmacists with understanding and tolerance together in support for each other.

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Pharm.D IV year Question papers 2010,2011 & 2012.

Pharm.D V year Question papers 2010,2011 & 2012.

Indian Pharmacists Revolution Yatra reaches Andhra Pradesh State

The Indian Pharmacists revolution yatra (Kashmir to KanyaKumari) campaign was launched on 4 January 2013 by Udyog Development Foundation, from Jantar mantar New Delhi. The Yatra has already completed Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal, Uttarakhand,Uttarapradesh,Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, Odisha, WestBengal, Sikkim, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunchal Pradesh, Assam, Madhya Pradesh and now in Hyderabad ,Andhra Pradesh.

Good NEWS about Stipend for Pharm.D Students during internship

Finally after a long wait here is a good news for all of us about stipend/fee during Pharm.D internship..The Pharmacy council of India  has issued a circular regarding Stipend for Pharm.D Students during internship..Thanks to Phamacy council of India for considering our demand.

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Good NEWS:Successful in advocating Stipend for Pharm.D students during Internship

AP Pharmacy council Registration procedure for Pharm.D students passed out

IACP Pharmacy Practice - Advanced Learning Series Module VI programme

Date: 06 to 08 October 2013

Venue: Hotel Daspalla, Road no.37, Jubilee Hills-Madhapur Road, Hyderabad-33

Register Now !!! - Pharmacy Practice Advanced Learning Series Module VI

International Speakers:
1. Prof. Krishna Kumar, Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, College of Pharmacy, Howard University, Washington, D.C. USA.
2. Prof. Hanna Phan, Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
3. Prof. Amy K. Kennedy, University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, Tucson, Arizona, USA

         
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PCI clears proposal to make degree as basic qualification for registering with pharmacy councils

The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) plans to make degree as the minimum qualification for pharmacists getting registered with state pharmacy councils and to practice as a working pharmacist.

The PCI will start a two year bridge course for uplifting the diploma holders into bachelors’ level and the draft proposal in this regard was approved by the central council meeting (CCM) of the PCI, last week.

The course will be known as ‘Bachelor Degree in Pharmacy Practice’. Colleges offering pharmacy degree courses can apply for sanction from PCI to start the course about which the Council will shortly notify the details. The course is designed to start either as evening course or as parallel course with classes to be conducted on Saturdays and Sundays, without affecting their working times.

A case of cough

History

Your next patient is a florid, plump, forthright woman of 52 years, who is complaining of an irritating cough for the last week or two. She works as a waitress or bartender, and is married with three children. The cough is non-productive and is disturbing her sleep. She admits to getting breathless on climbing stairs, but she is familiar with the symptom and is merely asking for a repeat prescription of her regular cough medicine. The computer records only date back 6 years, so you ask the receptionist to find her old Lloyd George paper records, and in the meantime examine her.

Examination 

You note her being overweight, almost obese: she weighs 14 stone (90 kg) and is 5 feet 8 inches tall (175 cm), giving her a body mass index of almost 30. You also note her nicotine-stained fingers: she smokes about 20 cigarettes a day, less now, since the ban on smoking at work. Her throat is slightly inflamed. She has a scattering of coarse rhonchi, but no rales. You guess that she may have a mild exacerbation of chronic obstructive airways disease. Her peak flow rate is certainly reduced (300 L/minute).
The records now reveal that she has been prescribed variously simple linctus, ipecacuanha with morphine linctus and pholcodine linctus by one of your predecessors in the practice. 

Questions
• What treatment might you rationally advise?
• What other advice might you offer her?
• What further investigation is appropriate?