100 years of Pharmacy

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    100 years of Pharmacy

  • the pharmaceutical association was created in 1907, in Canada.

  • Canada's research based pharmaceutical companies were founded.

  • New drugs were rapidly developed and marketed. the location of pharmaceutical preparation shifted from the drugstore to the factory where technology processes were employed.

  • Pharmacists responsibility centered around dispensing compounding drugs. They rarely communicated with patients about their medications or disease processes.

  • Pharmacy Examining Bored was formed in 1963, in Canada.

  • Saw the emergence of Canadian controlled generic drug companies, many are now foreign owned.

  • Pharmacy Mediware was founded in 1980

  • Pharmacy mediware was made public.

  • Canadian pharmaceutical market was the world's eighth largest, representing about 2.6 per cent of global pharmaceutical sales.