I am a Pharmacist

10/25/2024

Looking to start a career in the pharmaceutical industry? This article is just for you!
Pharmacy Abbreviations List

Effective communication is essential in the pharmacy sector for efficient tasking, recordkeeping, as well as patient safety. To facilitate efficient communication among healthcare professionals, ease your tasks like documentation, and convey information quickly and accurately, you must be familiar w...

07/12/2024

Lubricants are additives that, when placed between two rubbing surfaces, reduce friction that arises at the interface[1]. Lubricants may be Personal lubricants, or “Lube” or Pharmaceutical lubricants or Machinery lubricants.

Lubricants are known as lubricating agents. This article covers lubricant types, uses, mechanisms, selection, limitations, quality tests, properties, examples.

12/02/2023

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞
, also known as personalized medicine, is an approach to medical care and treatment that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. The goal of precision medicine is to tailor medical decisions, interventions, and treatments to the specific characteristics of each patient, rather than adopting a one-size-fits-all approach.

07/22/2023

Drug design is an inventive effort of designing a suitable lead molecule to make it more active and safer with less toxicity than the original lead molecule that may properly bind with its specific receptor sites to produce a certain pharmacological effect. In other words, Drug design is ........

12/12/2022

Biologics are therapeutics that can be based on proteins, peptides, viruses, viral vectors, or nucleic acids. They require a defined environment to remain intact and functional throughout the manufacturing and formulation process, as well as during long-term storage.

10/17/2022

Pregnancy-Risk Categories

These have been in use since 1979 and are defined as follows:

Category A: No risk in human studies (studies in pregnant women have not demonstrated a risk to the fetus during the first trimester).
Category B: No risk in animal studies (there are no adequate studies in humans, but animal studies did not demonstrate a risk to the fetus).
Category C: Risk cannot be ruled out. There are no satisfactory studies in pregnant women, but animal studies demonstrated a risk to the fetus; potential benefits of the drug may outweigh the risks.
Category D: Evidence of risk (studies in pregnant women have demonstrated a risk to the fetus; potential benefits of the drug may outweigh the risks).
Category X: Contraindicated (studies in pregnant women have demonstrated a risk to the fetus, and/or human or animal studies have shown fetal abnormalities; risks of the drug outweigh the potential benefits).

09/25/2022

World Pharmacists Day on 25 September 2022
“Pharmacy united in action for a healthier world”

07/17/2022

Examples of suspension (Chemistry, Food & Pharmaceuticals)

Examples of suspension you should know for a better understanding of suspension. In pharmaceuticals, suspensions may