Volume 2, Issue 1

Christopher P Alderman

pp. 1–7

In an evolutionary process that has spanned several pharmacy involved practitioners accepting 1 decades, many pharmacists in primary and secondary responsibility and accountability for their input into the 8 care setting…

Revikumar K.G, Mohanta. G.P, Veena R, Sonal Sekhar

pp. 8–17

The concept of clinical pharmacy was introduced in pharmacy profession by the American Hospital pharmacists during the period 1920-1940, though the term 'clinical pharmacy' as such was not coined during those days. Clini…

Neelam Mahajan

pp. 18–20

Chronic diseases have been reported to be leading cause of death in world. The WHO report had proposed the global goal to reduce the projected trend of chronic disease death rates by 2% by 2015. Various individual, insti…

Nitesh S Chauhan, Firdous F, R Raveendra, Geetha J, B Gopalakrishna, Roopa Karki

pp. 21–27

Drug information centre refer to facility specially set aside for, and specializing in the provision of drug information & related issues. The purpose of drug information centre is to provide authentic individualized, ac…

Lincy Lal, Cijo George, Anitha Yesoda, Jayakumar B

pp. 28–35

Even after 25 years of the first detection of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), it remains a major health care problem without any cure. Extensive research around the world and the subsequent introduction of hig…

Bhupathy Alagiriswami, Madhan Ramesh, Gurumurthy Parthasarathi, Hatthur Basavanagowdappa

pp. 36–45

This study was aimed to assess and quantify the pharmacist-initiated changes in drug therapy and its cost savings at a tertiary care South Indian Hospital. The medication details of all patients enrolled to the study was…

Divya Hariharaputhran, Sunitha C. Srinivas, Ramesh S. Billimaga, Ajai Kumar B.S

pp. 46–52

Bangalore Institute of Oncology (BIO), a Comprehensive Cancer Center operating since 1989 has initiated Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee (PTC) in 2007 as a forward looking step in promoting rational use of medicines. …

Imran Ahmad Khan, Shobha Rani. R.H, Geetha Subramanyam

pp. 53–61

Both macrolides as well as cephalosporins are widely used in the treatment of various lower respiratory tract infections either alone or in combination. The most commonly prescribed macrolide is azithromycin, generally i…

Vishnu Bapat, Leena Alfred, Shobha Rani R.H, Pushpa. T. Ksheerasagar, Geetha Hegde, Soumya. K. Lund

pp. 69–74

Vaginitis is a very common disease affecting millions of women each year with multifactorial etiology. If left untreated it can lead to various complications. Current medical therapy may temporarily reduce infection but …

Pandey Awanish, Tripathi Poonam, Pandey Rishabh Dev

pp. 75–80

Geriatric patients may have medication-related risk factors only identified by home visits, but the extent to which thoserisk factors are associated with poor health outcomes remainsunclear. To observe the drug utilizati…

Lavanya S, Vijayan K, Abhay Dharamsi, Rajasekaran A, Vijayakumar A

pp. 81–84

To report a case of central venous thrombosis following treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia with L-asparaginase. A 13-year-old master presented with an acute lymphoblastic leukemia associated with three episodes of…

Dr. Shobha Rani R Hiremath

pp. 85–88

Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice (ijopp) is official journal of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI). Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice, a quarterly publication is devoted to publishing reviews and…