Volume 11, Issue 2

Kunjal Patel, Prachie Patel, M. Chandra Sekar

pp. 62–63 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.2.13 · 2018

During the advanced pharmacy practice rotation in India in the winter of 2017, The University of Findlay Pharmacy students observed the availability and sale of large number of fixed dose combinations and many of those c…

Jasmina Eswaramkunnath, Anjali Kuriakose, Lia Abraham

pp. 64–66 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.2.14 · 2018

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. At present radiation therapy, hormone therapy, surgery to remove prostate, freezing prostate tissue, chemotherapy and biological therapy are employed. The best natural di…

Pelden Chejor

pp. 67–70 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.2.15 · 2018

Bhutan is a small country located in the eastern Himalayas situated between China and India. Bhutan’s road to modern health system began in 1961. Essential Drugs Program under the Ministry of Health introduced pharmacovi…

Tarun Wadhwa, Samar Gamal El Sheikh, Padma G.M. Rao

pp. 71–78 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.2.16 · 2018

Context:Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) can result in a number of consequences, ranging from allergic reactions to permanent harm thereby causing morbidity and mortality leading to an increase in the health care costs. Aim…

Rohit Singh Rawat

pp. 79–85 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.2.17 · 2018

Background and Objectives:The older population are more vulnerable to inappropriate prescribing andrelated adverse events due altered physiology. The objectives of the present study were to determine the prevalence of po…

Raja Sree Gadde, Divya Teja Dhanenkula, Sowjanya Kammila, Dharani Nelluri, Manjusha Polisetty, Sowmya Kaniganti, Yamini Vadlamannati, Siva Reddy Challa, Lakshmi Pavani Anne, Krishna Sri Nalla, Sravya Gethika Dammalapati

pp. 86–90 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.2.18 · 2018

Background:The use of “triggers” to identify Adverse Drug reactions (ADRs) is a novel emerging method for measuring the overall level of harm from medications in a health care organization. Our main objective is to deter…

Shailesh Tripathi, Sudip Bhattacharya

pp. 91–95 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.2.19 · 2018

Background:The concept of generic prescription is widely accepted in various parts of the world. Nevertheless, it has failed to gain popularity in India due to factors such as non-availability and distrust on the product…

P. Venkata Ramana, S. Susmitha, Danish Ahmad Khan, S K Eshma, S M D Yaseen

pp. 96–98 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.2.20 · 2018

Prednisolone is a 1, 2-dehydrocortisolwhich is highly potent synthetic glucocorticosteroid which has minimal mineralocorticoid activity. Prednisolone is used as antinflammatory or immunosuppressive agent, which indicated…

Kavya Nedamanuru, Sai Jyothi Dampetla, Divya Gopineni

pp. 99–100 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.2.21 · 2018

Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome (SSSS) is the medical term used to define a skin condition induced by the exfoliative toxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus. It is also called as Ritter disease, Lyell disease and …

Sharad Chand

pp. 101–103 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.2.22 · 2018

Scorpion stings are so frequent complaints as like other bites across the globe and it is one of the more common causes of hospitalization in the rural India. Normally, the stings will lead to the intense pain but having…

Padmakar S, K Sujan Kumar, S Parveen

pp. 104–109 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.11.2.23 · 2018

‘Cerebral’ – refers to the brain. ‘Palsy’ – can mean weakness or paralysis or lack of muscle control. Therefore, cerebral palsy is a disorder of muscle control which results from some damage to part of the brain. Cerebra…