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Custom Rx Connection August 2012

I A C P Annual Student Writing Competition Celebrates Original Thinking The IACP Foundation established the Annual Student Writing All pharmacy students are encouraged to compete. If you are a Competition to recognize outstanding original papers on pharmacy pharmacy student preceptor, please ensure that each of your compounding. Three winners are selected by a review committee students knows about this great opportunity to actively participate in from the papers submitted. The winners of this writing competition the compounding profession. Click here for information about the each receive a $500 cash prize. IACP Foundation Student Essay Content. The 2011 Winning Essays Intervention on Quality of Life Seijo Chow Many lives were lost this year due to the terrifying earthquake followed by the tsunami Loma Linda University in Japan. As countless people were directly affected by the incidents, many more are School of Pharmacy currently affected by the explosion of the nuclear plants.The need for potassium iodide Loma Linda, Calif. among those in Japan and in the nearby countries as a measure of precaution against the radiation became a huge issue when the demand surpassed the supply. While the tragedy took place during my rotation at an independent compounding pharmacy, I was Click here to read more The Role of Compounding in Tomorrow’s Care of Patients: Personalized Pharmaceutical Care Amanda Phillips Loma Linda University School of Pharmacy Loma Linda, Calif. Personalized pharmaceutical care is at the heart of compounding pharmacy. Pharmacy practice began with compounding – before commercially manufactured products, compounding drug preparations was the main practice of pharmacy. Up until the 1920s, about 80% of all prescriptions were compounded. In the 1970s, compounded prescriptions reached a low of less than 1% of all prescriptions.Today,between 30 and 40 million prescriptions are compounded each year. Compounding pharmacy is making a comeback in the United States. The future of compounding pharmacy lies with the ability of compounding pharmacists to work Click here to read more 32 I A C P C U S T O M Rx C O N N E C T I O N I A C P R X . O R G


Custom Rx Connection August 2012
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