Maintaining quality in compounded preparations must be a top priority of top management, and it must involve all pharmacy employees. Pharmacy compounding requires the development and maintenance of standard operating procedures to ensure quality and minimize compounding errors. Standard operating procedures are detailed instructions initiated by the pharmacist-in-charge or the quality control o...

Background Functional gastrointestinal diseases are common in general populations and comprise more than 40% visits to gastroenterologists. Treatment options of gastrointestinal diseases have been limited. There are a few medications for functional gastrointestinal diseases and some of medications are not available in the market or in the place where the patient lives. Traditional Persian medic...

In herbal medicinal products the entire herbal drug or an herbal drug preparation is regarded as the active pharmaceutical ingredient, regardless of whether constituents with defined therapeutic activity are known. In quality control and stability testing of herbal medicinal products, fingerprint chromatograms are used as powerful tools to evaluate and compare the composition of compounds in su...

PURPOSE The direct influence of environmental cleanliness and risk manipulations on prepared syringes was evaluated. METHODS Media-fill testing was used to estimate potential microbial contamination. Syringes were prepared in three different environments using four different uncontrolled high-risk manipulations. The three environments included an International Organization for Standardization...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Drug administration errors are more likely to reach the patient than other medication errors. The main aim of this study was to determine whether the sharing of information on drug administration errors among health care providers would reduce such problems. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study involved direct, undisguised observations of drug administrations in two pediatri...

The Ministry of Health is constantly emphasizing the quality, efficacy and safety of pharmaceutical products to safeguard the Malaysians public1. The Drug Control Authority at its 92nd meeting has decided to review the registration of generic products to include bioequivelent studies requirement for certain categories of oral immediate release products2 Bioavailability testing of drug products ...

The world is witnessing an unprecedented growth in the usage of herbal products. India is a mother hub for natural herbs based science. Herbal drug technology is used for converting botanical materials into medicines, where standardization and quality control with proper integration of modern scientific techniques and traditional knowledge is important. For global harmonization WHO specific gui...

Introduction (aim) Science 2008 the main rode of HIV transmission began to shift from parenteral toward sexual. So, female-sex workers and FSWdrug users are considered to have increased risk of HIV infection due many factors, some of which could be consequences of personal violence towards females: economic pressure, stigmatized needleborrowing, sharing of drug preparation equipment and sexual ...