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According to the physician's orders, they prepare medications; finding therapeutic problematic issues.They create, package, and label medications.They manage medications and oversees therapies, while utilizing infection control protocols to protect patients and technicians.
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Sir Henry Hallet Dale- He was an English pharmacist who received his medical degree from Cambridge in 1909.He first identified acetylcholine in 1914 as a neurotransmitter. He showed how important it was in the nervous system. Also, he devised "Dale's Principle" which states that each neuron emits only one type of neurotransmitter.
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This scottish biologist and pharmacologist discovered the enzyme lysozyme.
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In this year, he produced antibiotic penicillin from the mold Penicillium notatum.
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Daniel Bovet and his research student Anne Marie Staub synthesized the first antihistaminic thymoxideithylamine.
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Gerhard Domagk found the sulfonamide Prontosil to be effective against streptococcus and even treated his own daughter with it, saving her from getting her arm amputated.
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In this year, he discovered gallamine when he was looking for a substitute.
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Louis Lasagna was responsible for the revision of the Hippocratic Oath
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He discovered the mechanisms of the action hormones with regard to inhibition and stimulation of cyclic AMP.
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Sir James Black- developed cimetidine , which became the world's 1st billion dollar drug.
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In this year, the salary had ranged from around $30,000 per year, a drastic drop from what it is today (adjusted with inflation).
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In this year, the annual salary was approx in the $60,000 range (adjusted wth inflation).
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Health Insurnace Portability and Accountability Act was passeed by Congress. It provides the ability to transfer and continue health insruance coverage for millions of Americans and their families when they change or loose their jobs. It also aimed to protect the confidentiality and security of healthcare information.
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Up until 1997, the field of pharmacology only required a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy , or otherwise known as "B.S.Pharm," for graduating pharmacy students.
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Things changed in 2000, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, or APCE, put in place new standards that would result in students that would graduate pharmacy school in 2003 or later, would need an entry-level degree of the doctorate in pharmacy due to the Medicare Modernization Act being passed in 2003.
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Next-generation sequencing, desktop electron microscopy, gene therapy, and transational research.
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The evolution of new technologies such as 3-D biological printing and ultra-high resolution analytical instruments,
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In this year, the average annual salary for a pharmacist ranges from $110,141 to $136,226. The average among these wages amount to $123,114.
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Must take classes including biology, chemistry, physics, anatomy and physiology that are in two year long pre-professional track.
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Must take the Pharmacy College Admission Test and score high enough in order to qualify and get accepted into a Pharm. D. program.
