Volumes & Issues

Siruma A, Hornby D, Sunitha S

pp. 1-7 · 2012

The World Health Organization constitution declares that it is a fundamental right of every human being to enjoy the highest standard of health regardless of their racial, religious, and political or socio economic backg…

Iftekar H Md., Kalaiselvan V, Gyanendra N S

pp. 8-15 · 2012

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is epidemic in most developed and many developing countries and is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Vildagliptin represent a new class of oral anti-diabetic agent that enhance t…

Srikanth B.A, Purushothama K.R, Narotham K.R

pp. 16-20 · 2012

Patient counseling were intended to improve adherence and maintaining quality of life. Antiretroviral adherence is the second strongest predictor of progression to AIDS and death, after CD4 count. Incomplete adherence to…

Celin A.T, Seuma J, Ramesh A

pp. 28-33 · 2012

Introduction: Drug related problems contribute to patient's morbidity, mortality and decreased quality of life. Drug related problems can occur at any stage of prescribing, transcribing, dispensing and administration of …

Ajit S, Sanjay P, Shinde R.R

pp. 34-41 · 2012

Background: It is essential that the prescribing and administration of drugs should be evaluated from time to time, to quantify the error in such procedures, and look for possible solutions for an effective utilization o…

Amrita P, Simar P.S, Vineet K

pp. 42-50 · 2012

Objective: To evaluate the awareness of health care professionals (HCPs) regarding Pharmacovigilance, adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and it's reporting. Method: Aself-structured questionnaire was delivered by hand to a sa…

Mahendra Kumar BJ, Sandeep A, Soumya M

pp. 51-55 · 2012

Many hospitalizations in India are due to Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) and resulting in morbidity and mortality in majority cases in addition to the huge economic burden. Asurvey was conducted to assess the knowledge, at…

Pallavi H.S, Nirzarini N.S

pp. 56-60 · 2012

Introduction: Anemia of cancer is characterized by ineffective erythropoiesis, which is due to a number of factors. One of the most important among these is abnormal iron metabolism. There is also 'functional failure' du…

Jimmy O.D, Shobha Rani R.H, Indira R, Ramjan S

pp. 61-64 · 2012

Introduction: Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) can occur when two or more medications are simultaneously administered, where one medication increases or decreases the effectiveness of the other. There are three possible out…

Nishat C, Rashedul M.I, Mehedi H. MD, Rouf Md. M.

pp. 65-72 · 2012

This study attempts to investigate the prevalence of self-medication of antibiotics among people in Bangladesh.This study was conducted in six districts of Bangladesh (Dhaka, Munshiganj, Kishoreganj, Chittagong, Chandpur…

Praveen K.D, Biradar K, Hafiz S.A, Karna K, Neelkanta P.R

pp. 73-75 · 2012

The inappropriate prescribing (IP) is a major, public health problem in older people most often resulting from defective choice of medication by the prescriber. The present study was therefore entitled “Assessment of pot…

Showande S.J, Olaifa O.A

pp. 76-83 · 2012

The focus of this exploratory study was to determine if community pharmacists order laboratory tests, why they order the tests, what type of tests they order and what they do with the outcome of such tests. Self administ…

Hisham Md., Vijayakumar A, Rajesh N, Sivakumar M.N

pp. 84-86 · 2012

Introduction: Nitrobenzene, an aromatic organic compound used in paints and printing industry. Its toxicity induces methemoglobinemia. Clinical Sequelae: A42 year female patient survived a suicidal consumption of 250ml o…

Vinod K.M, Dipsanker C, Ramesh K.V, Girish G, Beulah M

pp. 87-90 · 2012

Cutaneous drug eruptions are one of the most common types of adverse reaction to drug therapy, with an overall incidence rate of 2–3% in hospitalized patients. The prevalence of drug eruptions has been reported to range …

Shobha Rani R Hiremath

pp. 91-94 · 2012

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…

Shobha Rani R Hiremath

pp. i-i · 2012

Dear Readers, At the outset, the editorial board of ijopp wishes you all a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2013! Agood research should always lead to a publication to share the researcher's work. Earlier, a research p…