Industrial Pharmacists Research Articles

"C" is for costs, and cancer, and conference: Highlights of the First European Conference on the Economics of Cancer

The first European conference on the economics of cancer was held in Brussels, Belgium on November 19-21, 1997. This international meeting was organized under the European Organization for Research and Treat ment of Cancer. Approximately 300 participants from around the world, including physicians, health care econ omists, epidemiologists, pharmaceutical industry repre sentatives, pharmacists, and other researchers, clinicians, and administrators attended the sessions. This interna tional mix of professions, along with the 12 plenary sessions, 4 tutorials, and over 100 contributed oral and poster presentations, made for a very interesting and informative conference. This review will focus on out comes measurement tools, pharmacoeconomics in clini cal trials, issues regarding the improvement of the quality and usability of pharmacoeconomic evaluations, and state of the art pharmacoeconomic reviews of hematopoietic growth factors and lung cancer. Abstracts of contributed presentations have already been published.1

FlP Guidelines for Dissolution Testing of Solid Oral Products Joint Report of the Section for O"icial laboratories and Medicines Control Services and the Section of Industrial Pharmacists of the FIP

flP Guidelines for Dissolution Testing of Solid Oral Products Joint Report of the Section for O"icial laboratories and Medicines Control Services and the Section of Industrial Pharmacists of the FIP

Teaching of Industrial Pharmacists: How to Teach?

Teaching of Industrial Pharmacists: How to Teach?

FIP Guidelines for Dissolution Testing of Solid Oral Products (Final Draft, 1995)

In 1981 Federation International Pharmaceutique (FIP) published “Guidelines for Dissolution Testing of Solid Oral Products” as a joint report of the Section for Official Laboratories and Medicines Control Services and the Section of Industrial Pharmacists. These guidelines were intended as suggestions primarily directed to compendial committees, working on the introduction of dissolution/release tests for the respective Pharmacopoeias.During the past decade there have been many developments. Biopharmaceutics has attracted much scientific as well as political interest. Dissolution test methodology has been introduced to many Pharmacopoeias and a number of regulations and guidelines on bioavailability, bioquivalence, and in vitro dissolution testing have been issued at national and international levels.The joint working group on dissolution of the two FIP sections, therefore, decided to establish a new dissolution guideline, taking all these developments into consideration but adding proposals for further h...

Careers for Pharmacists in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Perspective on Medical Affairs

Pharmaceutical industry represents a potential career path for pharmacists. Industry positions currently available to pharmacists, particularly those for individuals with advanced degrees, are expanding. This article will focus on opportunities for career-oriented pharmacists within a medical department with particular reference to a pharmaceutical company that markets nonprescription drug products. Although the potential responsibilities with this area may vary between companies, this article will focus on the areas of drug information, adverse drug experience reporting, postmarketing surveillance, and medical writing. These topics have been selected because they represent some of the responsibilities of pharmacists within the Medical Affairs Department at McNeil Consumer Products Company, a member of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies. In addition to job-related responsibilities, the suitability of a pharmacy education along with potential rewards and frustrations of working within the pharmaceutical industry are also presented.

Women Pharmacists in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Their Preparation, Satisfaction, and Outlook

Women Pharmacists in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Their Preparation, Satisfaction, and Outlook

Work-Related Interests Among Industrial Pharmacists

A mail survey of 1,505 pharmacists in every major work setting and position was conducted. The purpose of this paper is to report the vocational interest profiles for 364 industrial pharmacists, 288 males and 76 females, employed in sales, marketing, administration, manufacturing/quality control, and research and development. Limitations include small samples for three female groups and the lack of a random sample. Patterns of interest profiles were remarkably consistent in most instances with respect to sex role differences, associated scales and related work activities. Among males, there were several group differences on the enterprising, social and realistic general interest scales, and on the sciences, mathematics, public speaking, law/politics, merchandising, business management and sales basic interest scales. Among females, there were group differences on the enterprising, conventional and sales scales. Group comparisons were made using the LSD procedure and alpha = 0.01. There were fewer signific...

Work-Related Interests Among Industrial Pharmacists

Work-Related Interests Among Industrial Pharmacists

Pharmacists in industry

From the executive suite to the laboratory bench, pharmacists are finding traditional and nontraditional careers in every aspect of the pharmaceutical industry. Drug manufacturers are offering pharmacists—from BS to PhD degree holders—new challenges and wide-open opportunities for career growth, and benefits that surprise even industrial pharmacists themselves.

Continuous Education for Industrial Pharmacists

Continuous Education for Industrial Pharmacists

Competency Characteristics of the Industrial Pharmacist

Competency Characteristics of the Industrial Pharmacist

Extemporaneous Formulation Of Topical Corticosteroids

To the Editor.— As an industrial pharmacist I recognize the importance of proper formulation to insure drug availability and agree with Burdick et al ( 211 :462, 1970) that improper formulation of corticosteroids "may diminish or completely abolish the therapeutic activity." The authors correctly pointed out that triamcinolone is much less active in topical preparations than triamcinolone acetonide 1,2 and questioned whether the suggestion of Fischer 3 to crush triamcinolone tablets and compound them into a commercial emulsion base would give an active product. They showed that such preparations are inactive when compared to commercial triamcinolone acetonide preparations. However, they did not show that extemporaneous formulations are inferior to commercial formulations of the same compound. There are questions I would like to raise. (1) The identification of the active ingredient in the six prescriptions is very important, and I wondered about the "tentative identification." Do the authors plan additional testing or

Extemporaneous Formulation Of Topical Corticosteroids

To the Editor.— Dr. Caldwell correctly and accurately summarizes the study we reported on the extemporaneous formulation of a corticosteroid formulation recommended in the literature. As he clearly perceives, there was little chance that Fischer's suggested prescription for triamcinolone could approach the activity of commercial triamcinolone acetonide creams. The lack of uniformity in these compounded prescriptions did prompt our comments on the possibility of vehicle effects on drug availability. As an industrial pharmacist, we are sure Dr. Caldwell is aware that such effects are well documented in the literature. There was, however, no intent to question the competence of the highly trained, professional people who serve as our community pharmacists. The article, instead, singles out a specific instance where the physician and pharmacist may innocently collaborate to present to the patient a medicament much less active than what is readily available commercially. We hoped that, as a consequence of this

Opportunities for pharmacists in INDUSTRY

Opportunities for pharmacists in INDUSTRY

The Importance of Courses to Pharmacists in Industry

The Importance of Courses to Pharmacists in Industry