New Drug Case Study

First, the medical assistant should convert the doctor’s prescription into layman’s terms for Doris. Medication A is two teaspoons by mouth every four hours. Medication B is 2.5 milliliters by mouth three times daily (Fulcher, Fulcher, & Soto, 2012, p. 1b). Doris should be cautious of confusing her medication dosages as that could lead to possible overdose. If Doris is afraid of mixing her medications, the medical assistant should convert to the unit that Doris is more comfortable with. For example, if Doris prefers milliliters, she should take around 9.8 milliliters of medication A. Alternatively, medication B could be taken at .5 teaspoons (Fulcher, Fulcher, & Soto, 2012, p. 131). Patients taking multiple medications should have a medication

After Doris was sent home with two types of medication, she should really read closely to what the bottle says. Medication A is to be taken every four hours by mouth and medication B is to be taken three times a day by mouth. Usually when some medication is three times a day, it has to be taken with food, that way it can be taken with meals. The medication that is every four hours probably will be okay taken on a empty stomach. Since these medications are liquid, the doctor will advise nothing to be ate or drank within 30 minutes of taking. Liquid medications are usually made for coating the throat/intestines. And of course, no alcohol and no operating machinery until Doris gets used to the side effects.

Francesca, thank you for your discussion. I enjoyed how you described what Jane is experiencing with her medication. What I would try to explain to her would be that each of our bodies operate in different ways. That some individual respond differently to all forms of medications and why some have allergic reactions. Therefore, it makes sense that the gentlemen that she met in the lobby has a different response than she does with a different medication. However, it in no way means that the medication that he is taking would be affective. Furthermore, I would explain that I would not recommend her to change the medication because right now it appears to be working. It appears that her system has reached complete equilibrium (Preston,

Currently in America we have the luxury of having large chains of retail pharmacies across the country, providing consumers with the ability to easy access to over the counter medication and granting them larger freedom to self-medicate. In an article by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association a survey done in America was cited in which 73% of the participants claimed that they would rather self-medicate rather than see an actual healthcare provider for their opinion on the matter, and that 96% believed that they make the correct choices when it comes to the medications they choose to treat themselves (CHPA). With self-medication and the prevalence of OTC drugs continuing to expand, it is important that pharmacists who work in retail settings

A suspicious package found near 770 caused police who arrived at the scene to close down Eastern Parkway on Shabbos afternoon. The incident happened as the davening was ending in 770. The entire area remained closed for over two hours as police investigated.

Eliminates the responsibility of having to go out and refill pills, while reminding the consumer to take the appropriate pills

An Investigational New Drug Application (IND) is a request for authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to administer an investigational drug or biological product to humans. This authorization should be acquired before the start of interstate commerce of the product. During a new drug's early preclinical development, the sponsor's primary goal is to determine if the product is reasonably safe for initial use in humans, and if the compound exhibits pharmacological activity that justifies commercial development. When a product is identified capable for further development, the sponsor starts collecting the data and information necessary to establish that the product will be safe

Healthcare provider with qualified privileges should write a prescription based on patient’s medical history, and current health problems, also patient’s allergies and any relevant blood results known. However, writing prescriptions becomes illegal when these factors are not put into consideration, which may result into unnecessary harm to patient or even lead to untimely death. For the purpose of this discussion, scenario 3 will be review and require questions answered. The scenario 3 stated “You see another nurse practitioner writing a prescription for her husband who is not a patient of the practitioner. The prescription is for a narcotic. You can’t decide whether or not to report the

Drugs are all around, in your pharmacy or out on the street. There are people who actually use it correctly, the prescribed drug. There are people who use it in a way to get high, the illegal drug or prescribed drug used illegally. There are people who have a tendency to get high and not remember what they were doing. They tend to have triggers and they resort to the drug and abuse it. Each time their tolerance going up and having to use more than the last amount. They keep going until they basically die or get caught and thrown in jail.

Is a pill by itself worth 700 dollars? Depending on the drugs one buys price varies but overall people say the the price of prescription drugs is to high. It is extremely difficult to identify the actual cost of a drug because the pricing chains are complex.Variations in the price take place because of the power the drug companies have in their market. Drug manufacturers charge different customers different prices for the same drug as large purchasers can obtain discounts and rebates Overall, it is projected that Medicare beneficiaries will spend $1.2 trillion on prescription drugs over the next decade. With new drugs, generic drugs, and older drugs the price varies depending on what kind you get, who you get them from, and where you get them

Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease that is spread through the air from person to person. It attacks the lungs mainly, although it can also affect different areas in the body such as the kidneys, the brain, and the spine. Tuberculosis is both preventable and curable. It requires treatment and proper medication use. If someone affected by TB is not properly treated there is a high risk of death. The two main drugs used in curing patients with TB are isoniazid and rifampicin. Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis(MDR TB) is resistant to both of these drugs used for treatment, making it extremely hard to cure patients with the disease. Tuberculosis travels through the bloodstream and makes the immune system weak. Multidrug-Resistant TB is caused by improper use of medication. To prevent Tuberculosis from becoming Multidrug-Resistant, patients should take their full prescriptions of their antibiotics, make certain that their antibiotics are high quality, and perform the proper treatment course. Extensive Mulitdrug-Resistant Tuberculosis(XDR TB) is even more of a threat due to its resistance to more drugs than just isoniazid and rifampicin. Being resistant to a wide range of medication, Extensive Mulitdrug-Resistant Tuberculosis is even harder to cure than MDR TB. It leaves patients with small options of treatment that have little effect. People with autoimmune diseases like HIV are way

Tuberculosis (TB) is a airborne and contagious-infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli, usually establishes its infection in the lungs and known as pulmonary tuberculosis also can affect other sites and known as extrapulmonary tuberculosis (Rodrigo,2006; Comas,2009). Human Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global public health problem for both developed and developing countries , is the second cause of death in worldwide, after the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In 2014,World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the burden of TB disease was 9.6 million new cases worldwide and 1.5 million deaths were estimated to be caused by TB (WHO,2015) .TB resumption is mainly a consequence due to onset of the AIDS pandemic and emergence of drug resistant strains MDR(WHO,2014 ), therefore TB rates rose once again, and with that, the need to tackle TB more effectively all over the world .

Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928 many discipline’s, including medicinal chemistry, have worked on natural antibiotics and the rise of bacterial resistance to them. In the last 15 years medicinal chemistry has worked to combat the challenges of bacterial resistance that has emerged in the form of efflux pumps, degradation enzymes and/or modification of targets. Advancements in structure determination has given a larger number of high resolution structures for bacterial proteins that can be run in structure-based drug design programs. High-throughput screening (HTS) has advanced so that hit to lead compounds also have cellular activity, although this is predominantly giving output for Gram-positive bacterial targets. Difficulties lie in fully understanding the mechanism of action and permeation of new drugs. However, new understanding of translocation proteins, such as porins, has meant that new drugs have been designed for homologous uptake channels or modified to be recognised by different bacterial uptake pathways. Recent research has also worked to alter the mechanism of action of older antibiotics by administering them with non-antimicrobial drugs that have synergistic or additive effects, which may be a longer term solution that limits the emergence of resistance to new drugs and extend the effective lifetime of antibacterials

In 2009, BioPharma Inc. experienced a significant decline in profits with high costs of production around the world. Due to a stable demand with little room for increased profitability, cutting costs was a top priority for the coming year. Changing and adapting BioPharma’s global production network was thus a priority in order to be successful and eliminate wasteful surplus.

Bdq, a diarylquinoline, inhibits of mycobacterial ATP synthase (Andries et al., 2005; Koul et al., 2007). It has inhibitory activity against both active and