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30/04/2021

Equip Pharmacists to Immunize

India working on equipping pharmacists to vaccinate

We continue our marking of World Immunization Week by bringing you news of progress from around the world.

In India, the need of the hour is to increase the vaccination coverage. The Indian Pharmaceutical Association has been developing on a training module to equip pharmacists to immunise and is lobbying the government.

“We look forward to a time when our profession is able to help ensure that its 1.35bn people are protected against COVID-19 through vaccination. It may be a long way to go, but we will keep working towards this goal,” said Manjiri Gharat, vice president, Indian Pharmaceutical Association.

07/10/2020

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06/10/2020

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06/10/2020

“Medical tattoos” placed into the skin with microneedles could provide a new way of monitoring health parameters in real time

Microneedles are needles so small (typically with a length less than 0.5mm) that they are painless. For some years, pharmaceutical scientists have been investigating their use for the delivery of medicines and vaccines, but researchers from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Université de Montréal, Canada, are experimenting with polymeric microneedles delivering an agent which gives a fluorescent signal that could be measured with a portable detector in a point-of-care or home setting.

The findings were presented at the 7th Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress this week by Sam Babity, who said: “The skin — the largest organ in the human body — carries a great deal of health-related information and microneedles could help us to access this.” The researchers showed that they were able to optimise a fluorescent agent for use in the skin, develop dissolving microneedles, formulate the agent to be compatible for delivery via the microneedles, and measure the rate of lymphatic drainage, which is an indicator of lymphedema.

Further investigation with agents that react with physiological analytes in the skin such as reactive oxygen species — an indicator of inflammation — is ongoing. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/36wuQu4

01/10/2020

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25/09/2020

23/09/2020

Dear Members,

This year, to mark the World Pharmacists Day, the SEARPharm Forum is planning to hold a webinar.

Topic: “Role of Pharmacists in transforming global health in the background of COVID-19 in the South East Asia Region"

Date: Sep 25, 2020
Time: 10:30 AM IST

Join Zoom Meeting URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84881563923?pwd=aEkvYXEzY1lzSWVZSS82ZTZqZDdDdz09

Meeting ID: 848 8156 3923
Passcode: 816120

29/03/2020

08/02/2020

11 February is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Be ready to join in raising awareness of the under-representation of women in pharmaceutical sciences and education. On Tuesday, we’ll be launching a new initiative ― ― to support women in these areas. Save the date and download the package for your social media here https://www.fip.org/fipwise