(a.) Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
(3) An investigation was done on the action in vitro of two pharmaceutical preparations containing Bi, De Nol and Pepto Bismol, on the fermentative capacity of intestinal bacteria.
(4) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(5) Silufol plates can be used for the control of the production of vitamins, their analysis in varying biological objects, as well as in biochemistry, medicine and pharmaceutics.
(6) Variations in bioavailability and intestinal absorption are important factors in the determination of dosage and should be reduced to a minimum by improved pharmaceutical formulations.
(7) This new derivative could represent a desirable complementation to rhbFGF for the development of more stable pharmaceutical formulations in wound healing applications.
(8) A report of the meeting will be published tomorrow in the Pharmaceutical Journal.
(9) There was no statistically significant difference between the figures obtained by the 2 methods, except for pharmaceutical expenditures (P = 0.005) which were grossly underevaluated by the program.
(10) Pharmaceutical services in a medical screening clinic are described.
(11) Slow release lithium was found a reliable pharmaceutical tool in both providing therapeutic results and avoiding severe side-effects.
(12) The efficacy and tolerability of a new pharmaceutical formulation of a non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug, nimesulide were studied in a double blind study in comparison with flurbiprofen and diclofenac sodium, in 150 patients suffering from postsurgical pain-inflammatory symptoms.
(13) A health committee meeting in Sacramento, the state capital, on Wednesday turned into a tense showdown between lawmakers seeking to argue that the science is unequivocally on the side of universal vaccination, and activists accusing them of being in the pocket of unscrupulous big pharmaceutical companies.
(14) Clarithromycin (TE-031, A-56268) is a new 14-membered ring macrolide antibiotic developed by Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. TE-031 has a methoxy group at position 6 in its structure.
(15) This is especially relevant in light of the use of laboratory mammals to predict the metabolism of novel pharmaceutical agents in humans.
(16) The Double Irish loophole allows US companies, mostly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, to reduce their effective tax bill far below Ireland’s already generous 12.5% corporate tax rate by shifting most of their taxable income from an operating company in Ireland to another Irish-registered firm located in an offshore tax haven, such as Bermuda.
(17) Propylene glycol (PG) is widely used as a drug solvent in the pharmaceutical industry.
(18) The experimental drug, known as GSK2606414, is made by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline.
(19) The Office for National Statistics reported a drop in output across the manufacturing sector, from pharmaceutical firm to makers of computers, electronic & optical products; and food products, beverages & tobacco goods.
(20) The second approach for a UK-listed drug company by a US rival underlined the deal-making zeal that has seized the pharmaceutical sector.
Pharmacist
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
(2) Guidelines are presented for pharmacist coordination of the importation for use by institutionalized patients of drugs not currently approved by the FDA.
(3) The number of pharmacist and technician full-time equivalents increased by only 1.5 in each category between 1985 and 1990.
(4) Pharmacists are criticized for a failing sense of mission and a waning dependence on knowledge.
(5) Ninety pharmacists are employed in 13 hospital pharmacies; half of the pharmacists are occupied bb drug product manufacturing.
(6) A pharmacist's knowledge of insulin products and the pharmacologic activity of the oral hypoglycemic and immunosuppressive agents may aid in the care of patients who are allergic or resistant to insulin.
(7) The course content and format were refined after 11 pharmacists completed a pilot program.
(8) PharmaTrend provides indicators in the areas of revenue, cost, drug distribution, clinical services, research, education, and management support; examples are total direct cost per admission, total drug cost per drug distribution work unit, and comparisons between cost and revenue, supportive staff and pharmacist work hours, and total staff work and paid hours.
(9) The complexity of this technique requires a close collaboration between physicians, surgeons, pharmacists and biochemists.
(10) The De Hemptinne ether inhaler was presented to the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium in February, 1847 by Auguste De Hemptinne, a pharmacist.
(11) Given large number of institutions reporting the presence of formal, prospective, pharmacy-initiated monitoring programs, we suggest that clinical pharmacists will play a major role in implementing the necessary changes.
(12) To estimate the importance of this assertion it is necessary to understand the communication habits of pharmacists, especially their interactions with patients.
(13) In the interdisciplinary approach to home care, pharmacists, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, social workers, and others all participate on a home-care team.
(14) Only 1 of the 52 pharmacists actually demonstrated MDI inhalation technique, and this in response to a request.
(15) Subsequent to the questionnaire the PCCU liaison pharmacist implemented a visual display of monthly drug costs, an education program that included the presentation of questionnaire results, and drug information lectures discussing controversial therapeutic issues.
(16) The 2 types of exemptions proposed were: 1) allowing pharmacists to provide a prescription-only drug in an emergency with the doctor providing a prescription within 72 hours, and 2) allowing pharmacists to provide a 3-day emergency supply of drugs previously ordered by a physician.
(17) The most pronounced finding was the importance of supervisors being pharmacists: satisfaction on five of six satisfaction subscales was related to whether one's supervisor was a pharmacist.
(18) The pharmacist can play a valuable role in distributing information about poison control centers, poison prevention, and appropriate treatment of poisonings.
(19) Before the course was developed, pharmacy staff members were asked to rate their drug information skills; the pharmacists' responses indicated their belief that they were not proficient enough in the skills needed in daily practice.
(20) Between 95 and 98% of all aminoglycoside doses are calculated by staff pharmacists using traditional pharmacokinetic equations.