For several years, the standards of cancer treatment were based on surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Over the past two decades, targeted therapies mostly based on monoclonal became the gold standard for many cancer ...

Technology, which was first developed to facilitate communication, has now grown into a global network of computer systems that link multiple platforms and create interrelationships between governments, academic ...

With an increasing focus on interprofessional education, pharmacists are increasingly trusted to offer suggestions and make interventions to improve patient care. Available data suggest that interventions by pharmacists ...

In the changing and competitive pharmacy landscape there is need for a transition from dispenser (product-centered care) towards consultant-healthcare professional (patient-centered care). “Patient Services”* ...

Emergency pharmacists practise in arduous and demanding conditions, and often work closely with international and local organisations in humanitarian and disaster relief situations.  In recent years, resettlement of ...

The importance of promoting efficient and effective management throughout the supply chain cannot be overemphasised. The largest global e-commerce companies have shown that they have a robust and efficient supply chain ...

The imminent threat of a post-antibiotic era is upon us; and it is going to take us back to the days when people died of common infections. The present 700,000 global deaths each year due to antimicrobial resistance ...

A competent and capable practitioner workforce is an essential prerequisite for all healthcare professions. This is the opening line of the Global Competency Framework for services provided by the pharmacy workforce ...

FIP member organisations will present their best initiatives and challenges. Presentations will include the winning projects of the FIP Health Promotion Campaign Award and the FIP Pharmacy Practice Improvement Award.

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This forum will discuss ways to measure, assess and progress the PWDGs within the professional development cluster, which focuses on the pharmaceutical workforce: PWDG 4: Advanced and specialist expert development ...

When will a pharmacist be able to use each patient’s individual information — such as age, race, gender or constitution — to produce their optimal medication dose, rather than relying on a standard set of doses? ...

Evidence-based research is the only possible approach in conducting pharmacy practice research, explaining how to improve research capacity in the future. In many pharmacy schools and universities, however, this is not ...

For hundreds of years, the Arabic world has had a profound influence on the science and art of pharmacy. Pharmacy’s independence from medicine can be traced to the opening of the private apothecary in Baghdad circa AD ...

This session will focus on potential disruptions in healthcare delivery by pharmacists and shall explore educational solutions, such as development of affective skills by pharmacists to assist patients in ...

This session will focus on innovations and best practices in military and emergency pharmacologistics to ensure consistently the availability of effective and quality essential medicines. In the current global situation ...

Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) is increasingly used in healthcare mainly because it moves decision-making from ad hoc to an evidence-based and comprehensive process. Developing countries with more restricted ...