Volume 4, Issue 2

Patel I, Chang J, Srivastava J, Balkrishnan R

pp. 1–9

The ever mounting challenge facing global health today is the wide spread gap between the life expectancy observed in the developed and the developing world. War, famine, communicable and non-communicable diseases challe…

Vishvas G

pp. 10–15

India has the highest prevalence of diabetes (50.8 million people). Sitagliptin and saxagliptin are the two newer drugs approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a sy…

Hasan SAA, Shobha C

pp. 16–22

The bile acid sequestrants are the group of medications utilized to bind certain components of bile in the gastrointestinal tract. Enterohepatic circulation of bile acids is disrupted by sequestering bile acids and preve…

Ganachari M S, Tarun W, Vimala CL

pp. 23–28

Patient counseling is a critical component of the dispensing process, in order to ensure that the patient receives and understands important information such as the name of the drug and the purpose of the medication. Cli…

Amrita P, Singh SP

pp. 29–36

Adverse drug reaction (ADR) monitoring and reporting activity is in its infancy in India. Physicians being frontline caregivers, a study was conducted to determine the level of awareness of physicians about ADR reporting…

Ramanath KV, Shafiya SB

pp. 57–63

Urinary tract infections are the second most common infectious disease in the community medical practice. The objective was to study the prescription pattern of antibiotics used in the treatment of UTI. A prospective cro…

Dinesh KG, Padmasani L, Vasantha J, Veera RB, Sudhakar P, Uma MR

pp. 64–68

Children are more vulnerable to various adverse events related to drugs and the poor understanding of instructions on prescription by the patient or caretakers were likely to cause medication error and less effective tre…

Naresh T, Raghu KV, Prasad T, Praveen NVRKT, Dhanapal CK, Mohanta GP

pp. 69–75

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disorder and affects large segment of population and is a major public health problem. Diabetic foot problems, such as ulcerations, infections and gangrene are the most common cause of hosp…

Arun Kumar K. S, Venkateswarlu K, Ramesh A

pp. 37–42

Medication administration errors account for 34% of all medication errors and identified as one of the important reasons for patients' morbidity and mortality. NPSA statistics show that 59.3% of medication errors occur d…

Shveta S, Jagmohan S

pp. 43–46

The objective of this study was to describe and examine the self medication pattern in the state of Punjab. A sample of 300 nuclear families from 5 different districts of Punjab were randomly selected for the study. The …

Khan N A, Abid M, Singh V K, Vaishali V, Chattopadhyay P, Ghosh A K, Kamal K

pp. 47–50

Lack of knowledge and awareness about Tuberculosis (TB) as well as Direct observed therapy short course (DOTS) are a persistent and major community problem due to which suffering and mortality rate increases tremendously…

Rajanandh M G, Ruby V, Ramasamy C

pp. 51–56

Drug information service refers to activities carried out by pharmacists in providing any drug related information to healthcare professionals to provide better patient care. The study was aimed to evaluate the drug info…

The Editor

pp. 76–79

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…