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NSAIDS-ADRs-Severe Cutaneous Adverse Reaction (SCAR)

Submitted by vijayaratna on Thu, 10/18/2012 - 18:26

The World Health Organisation, in its Pharmaceuticals News Letter, May, 2012, warned that Severe Cutaneous Adverse Reaction (SCAR), is possible with the use of Non steroidal Antiinflammatory drugs. The risk associated with NSAIDS is very low, but it is possible. The highest number of reactions were seen in the case of celecoxib, and that was only six cases per I million person-years.

Community pharmacy in India and some issues

Submitted by vijayaratna on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 17:37

Retail sale in India mostly takes place through medical shops and the idea of community pharmacy is not known much here in India. The pharmacy profession has been making attempts, consistently and strongly, in the past three decades, to imbue the sellers in the medical shops with professional values and transform the medical shops into community pharmacies.

Memory 2- preparation of dilute sulphuric acid

Submitted by vijayaratna on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 10:37
Memory 2 - preparation of dilute sulphuric acid! Friends, I want to share another experience with you. As a part of my research, I did a number of practicals but I remember a few things very vividly. One such work is the way we prepared dilute sulphuric Acid. I want to describe this to you.

Targeted drug delivery systems- a brief note

Submitted by vijayaratna on Thu, 02/24/2011 - 03:28
Targeted Drug Delivery Systems Prof. J. Vijaya Ratna, AU College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. 1. ? Paul Ehrlich first proposed targeting of drugs in 1902. ? A Targeted Drug Delivery system (TDDS) is a delivery system that releases its drug at a preselected biosite in a controlled manner. 2. ? Side Effects are the bane of modern medicines.

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