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Shobha Rani. R Hiremath

pp. 1-1 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.1 · 2014

Dear Readers, We keep reading in literature about the serious problems patients are facing due to the improper use of high risk medicines. High Risk Medicines are those that have a high risk of causing injury or harm if …

Natisha Dukhi, Sunitha Srinivas

pp. 2-9 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.2 · 2014

Epidemic increase in chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) is resulting in immense challenges in developing countries such as South Africa. Previously misunderstood to affect only high-income countries, 80% deaths du…

Uday Venkat Mateti, Shiv Sagar Konda, M.G. Irfan Ahmed Khan, Anantha Naik Nagappa

pp. 10-13 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.3 · 2014

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is an instructional student centered approach, which serves to enhance skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, clinical reasoning and self-directed learning to develop a solution t…

Jyoti Patel, Sandipkumar Bhatt

pp. 14-18 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.4 · 2014

Nuclear pharmacy is a unique branch of pharmacy services that focuses on the proper, safe management and use of radiopharmaceuticals. Most of pharmacist spent their time in traditional services while few renders clinical…

V Kalaiselvan, Prasad Thota, Abishank Singh

pp. 19-22 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.5 · 2014

There are one hundred and fifty Adverse Drug Reactions Monitoring Centres (AMCs) across the country are functioning and reporting’s Adverse Drug Reactions to National Coordination centre (NCC), Pharmacovigilance Programm…

Karan Chawla, Taraneh Tofighi, Arnav Agarwal, Jason Thomas, Tapas Mondal

pp. 23-28 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.6 · 2014

While the use of cheaper bioequivalent generic drugs over brand-name drugs has been widely discussed in literature, their market pricing and subsequent use is largely shaped by government policy-making as well as consume…

Kashif Ullah Khan, Amer Hayat Khan, Syed Azhar Sulaiman, Chow Ting Soo, Raja Ahsan Aftab

pp. 29-35 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.7 · 2014

HIV/AIDS remains the greatest public health concern in the world. With current scenario, HIV-AIDS is considered as a chronic disease due to the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy that has significantly improv…

Inamdar S. Z, K. Rucha, Kotnal R.B, Kulkarni R. V, Simpi C. C, Singh. A, Reddy A. G, P. Jagdeesh, K. Manitheja, N. Arun, B. Vishal

pp. 36-41 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.8 · 2014

Background: Drug therapy may not be successful if the process of writing prescription, dispensing and administration is not appropriately performed resulting into medication errors, which are unfortunately a reality in m…

Dimple Gohel, Sandip Kumar Bhatt, Supriya Malhotra

pp. 42-49 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.9 · 2014

Background: The burden of dermatological Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) is resulting into switching or discontinuation of drug as well as medication non-adherence. Active search is essential for evaluating, managing, repo…

Prem Kumar B, Srinivasa Murthy M, Rajagopal K, Nagaprabu VN, Sree Madhuri P

pp. 50-60 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.10 · 2014

Background: Autoimmune disorders (AID) are emerging non-communicable diseases and understanding their epidemiology could reveal information about their clinical characteristics and disease management. Objective: To recor…

Kruti D. Patel, Tarachand Lalwani, Kartik Shah

pp. 61-68 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.11 · 2014

Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a disease of significantly increasing in terms of economic burden due to its increasing prevalence and high costs. In India because of growing pressure on the h…

Meenu Vijayan, Anisha K A, Arjun Sanal Kumar Selina, Roshni P R

pp. 69-74 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.12 · 2014

Liver cirrhosis is one of the major non communicable diseases, which is expected to be a prime health care concern of the 21stcentury. In the present world, the number of persons suffering from the liver disorders is inc…

Prasad T, Kalaiselvan V, Surabhi S, Vivek D, Ranvirkumar S, Gyanendra Nath S

pp. 75-77 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.7.3.13 · 2014

Adverse drug reactions are regarded as an important public health problem as they may be potentially life- threatening. The World Health Organization defines Adverse drug reaction (Adverse Drug Reaction) as a response to…