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Home Care Centres : A loom in patient compliance

Home care centre is an emerging concept in the western countries and it is indeed proving to be beneficial. But what necessitates its need in our country? The answer to this is low rate of patient compliance which is a major problem since many years. Though in all possible ways […]

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Pharmacoeconomics & Drug Price Mechanism

Pharmacoeconomics to recognize the measures and compares the costs and consequences of pharmaceutical products and services. It gives the information to maintain the economic relationship involving drug research, drug production distribution storage, pricing use by people. Pharmacoeconomics has become more important due to an increased emphasis on efficient drug therapies […]

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Drug Resistance

Drug resistance is the emerging and most pressing concern of the day. In simple words, Drug resistance suggests the ability of the pathogens (mostly bacteria) to infect and grow even in the presence of an antimicrobial agent used or the ineffectiveness of the drug to target and prevent the infection […]

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Who am I ..?

I found everywhere… I locked inside the barren cage… I have been used by students…..  I have been used by people for their purpose for their experiments…. I have been used by policeman to find criminals….. Sometime I have been with farmers…. I have been sometime pet and street player…. […]

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A journey towards fitness

Since I have to wake up early morning and have an important task of time management to target my college biometric machine, I need to compensate by sleeping long on all weekends was my self-assured belief and confirmed philosophy.

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Artificial Intelligence: Driver for Growth of Pharmaceuticals

Artificial intelligence (AI) is essentially the ability of computer software to learn, rather than merely carrying out instructions it has been pre-programmed to perform. AI comes in many forms, but machine learning and natural language processing are two…

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Generic Vs Branded Medicine???

There are currently three types of formulations which are in the market viz branded, branded generic and generic drug product. Let us understand what they actually mean. The brand-name drug product is originally discovered and developed by a pharmaceutical company which is usually costlier due to cost involved in the [...] Read more...

Food-the simplest medicine

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” is an illustrious statement by Hippocrates, the father of medicine. Be this quote from antiquity but if something is ancient and still holds meaning and is around must be correct, or atleast worth considering.

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Patient adherence

Quite a few of us know of a family member or friend who has trouble sticking to his medication routine. Patient adherence is the extent to which the patient follows the instructions of his physician…….especially with respect to taking his medication in the correct manner and completing the course. Surprisingly, [...] Read more...

Smart gadgets and health

We are living in the era of technology… Every nook and corner is enriched by latest technology. Are we really making use of gadgets or has this technology almost enveloped us? Smart phones, smart TVs, bikes, cars, watches … this list obviously endless. Today’s most common gadget, the smart phones!! […]

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