Name Of Medicine Research Articles

Analysis of the range of rectal drugs used for the treatment of proctologic diseases in Ukraine

Proctological diseases (acute and chronic hemorrhoids, anal fissure, proctitis) have frequent relapses, are characterized by a severe course and are common among broad strata of the working-age population. The leading clinical sign of this group of diseases is lesions of the mucous membrane of the rectum of varying degrees of severity which is accompanied by signs of inflammation, pain syndrome, deterioration of local circulation, involvement of secondary infection. It determines the use of complex products that combine anti-inflammatory, analgesic effects and promote the reparative processes of the mucous membrane. On the Ukrainian pharmaceutical market the number of such products is limited, most of them are foreign-made.
 The purpose of the work is to study the assortment of medicines for rectal use on the pharmaceutical market of Ukraine, to determine the feasibility and prospects of developing new combined soft medicines of domestic production. Methods of marketing, statistical and graphic analysis were used in the work from official sources of information: (The State Register of Medicinal Products of Ukraine and the ATC classification system).
 While researching the assortment of medicines for rectal use it was established that there are 34 names of medicines for rectal use in various forms of release on the domestic market, of which suppositories ‒ 55.9%, ointments ‒ 35.3%, creams ‒ 8.8%; the share of foreign-made medicines is 61.7% and domestic ‒ 38.3%. Complex synthetic medicines occupy 49.9% of the assortment and complex medicines of natural origin ‒ only 2.95%.
 In the production of soft medicines for rectal use, hydrophobic (40%), emulsion (40%) and diphilic bases (20%) are more often used. Solid fat (78.9%) is more often used in the production of suppositories.
 Considering the limited range of medicines for rectal use based on medicinal plant raw materials, it is advisable to develop new combined soft medicinal products which will include biologically active substances of plant origin.

Measuring drug name similarity to prioritise the application of tall-man lettering in a computerised pharmacy dispensing system

Abstract Introduction Medicine name similarity is a contributory factor to medication errors.1 Published lists exists highlighting medicine pairs that are easily confused; locally a Look-Alike-Sound-Alike (LASA) list has expanded over time with no formal system of triage. A multipronged approach is required to address LASA risks. Tall-Man Lettering (TML) is one intervention that uses uppercase lettering for the dissimilarities in look-alike drug names to alert staff to the risk of error.1 For greatest impact, it should be reserved for pairs with the highest risk for patient safety. Aim This study aimed to use Levenshtein Distance (LD), Bigram (Bi) and Trigram (Tri) methods to prioritise medicine pairs for TML in the Pharmacy dispensing system. Objectives were to: Produce a comprehensive list of medicines pairs; Establish normalised thresholds from LD, Bi and Tri to prioritise medicine pairs for TML; and, measure drug name similarity using validated software2 applying LD, Bi and Tri to medication pairs as a method of triage for orthographic assessment. Methods Approval was obtained by the Trust Pharmacy Research Committee. The need for ethical submission was waived. A LASA list was developed combining medicine name pairs from National Pharmacy Association list3, historical local list and internal incidents where medicine name confusion was cited. Duplicated, branded and non-stock pairs were excluded. A literature search was undertaken to identify published thresholds for accuracy and sensitivity of the methods in the measure of medicine name similarity. LD measures the minimum number of edit operations needed to transform one string into another; Bi and Tri measures the frequency in which two/three similar sequential strings appear within a medicine name respectively. Two assessors independently entered medicine pairs through a validated computer program2 applying LD, Bi and Tri to measure orthographic similarity. Normalised computed similarity scores (between 0-1 where higher values represent increased drug similarity) were collated on Microsoft excel for comparison against thresholds. Results Two-hundred and twelve medicine pairs were identified for review. The literature defined Bi and Tri thresholds at ≥0.3 and ≥0.1 respectively; in absence of this for LD, in-house thresholds were assessed then defined at ≥0.6. LD identified 84 medicine pairs; Bi identified 144; and Tri identified 158; none were uniquely found by LD, four by Bi and 18 by Tri. A final look-alike list with 82 medicine pairs meeting all three thresholds was identified for TML. Discussion/Conclusion Screening using all three methods led to a 61% reduction in medicines pairs allowing prioritisation of TML as an effective intervention based on look-alike pairs with the highest risk of error. This study focused on identifying orthographic similarity in ‘look-alike’ medicine pairs only. With no single intervention available to prevent LASA errors, future work can explore other interventions. In the absence of literature around normalised LD, the definition of an in-house threshold posed to be another limitation and an area where further exploratory work should be considered. As new LASA incidents arise or the Trust catalogue increases, these methods should be applied to triage their look-alike potential, confirming if TML is an appropriate intervention.

Differences in the Use of Covid-19 Comorbid Drugs in Before and Early Of Pandemic

Comorbid patients with Covid 19 affect the severity of the infection. This study aims to examine the utilization of generic medications in the treatment of comorbid Covid-19. Data were retrieved retrospectively from Al Ihsan Hospital's medical records. The data summarize the use of generic medicines for comorbid Covid-19 in the year preceding and in the first year of the pandemic. Metformin is the most commonly recommended medication for type 2 diabetes management.In contrast, Acarbose was the most extensively used medicine before the epidemic. Pioglitazone is the least prescribed diabetes medication. Before the pandemic, Amlodipine 10 mg was the most commonly prescribed medication for cardiovascular disease management. This is distinct from the pre-pandemic period when Ramipril was the most frequently used medication. Verapamil was the least prescribed medication prior to and throughout the epidemic. Three of the eleven medicine names analyzed in the Diabetes Comorbid group indicated that there was a significant variation in use between before and during the pandemic. Thirteen of the twenty-one medicine names analyzed in the Cardiovascular Comorbid group showed a substantial variation in usage between before and during a pandemic.

Determining Current Medications Usage within a Cohort of Patients in the UK-A Descriptive Retrospective Study.

Swansea University's United Kingdom (UK) Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Register is a platform that contains information on more than 17,600 people with MS living in the UK. The register has been in operation since 2011 and represents comprehensive information about people living with MS in the UK. It is considered the first register of its kind that can link information from patients to clinical data and has been established to answer different information needs about MS. Aim: To elucidate the trends in patterns of medicines currently used by people with MS in the UK MS register. Methods: This study follows an exploratory descriptive design using the UK MS register as data resource. A number of 4516 people completed the EQ-5D survey out of 8736 people who have given their consent to answer online questionnaires which represents around 52% of the register total population. Descriptive analysis and tests were performed with SPSS to address the research objectives. Results: There are several medicine names entered by people with MS in their profiles. These medicines are used either to manage MS symptoms or to treat its associated complications. Among the medicine types revealed in this study, disease modifying drugs (DMDs), muscle relaxants, and anticonvulsants are the medicine types mainly used by people with MS followed by antidepressant and antianxiety medicines. Conclusions: From the antidepressants used most widely, amitriptyline was chosen as a subject medicine for further investigation in the remaining studies of this research due to its high frequency use, the elevated depression rates discovered among people with MS who seek information on it online, and the high online content noted on websites about this medicine.

MODERN ASPECTS OF PROVIDING EFFECTIVE ANDSAFE PHARMACOTHERAPY

The rapid development of pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology and the pharmaceutical industry in recent years has led to an unprecedented expansion and growth of the pharmaceutical market. According to the latest data, today about 30000 (!) names of medicines are converted on the world pharmacological market. Therefore, the practitioner has an urgent task not only to remember the names of the above drugs, but also to use them correctly in everyday activities. In addition, the doctor will need to know the advantages and disadvantages of new drugs compared to old ones, the interaction of drugs in the body. The effective, safe use of drugs can be studied by a physician as a result of many years of experience and skilled practice. The WHO estimates that more than half of all medicines are misused, dispensed or sold, and half of all patients receiving medicines are taking them incorrectly. Over-use, under-use or misuse of drugs is wasting limited resources and widespread health threats.

Recognition of Handwritten Medical Prescription Using Signature Verification Techniques.

Patient record keeping plays a vital role in diagnoses and cures. Due to a shortage of time, most doctors write prescriptions manually in Pakistan. At times, it becomes difficult for pharmacists to read prescriptions properly. As a result, they may dispense the wrong medicine. This might cause risky and deadly effects on the patient's health. This paper proposes an online handwritten medical prescription recognition system that lets doctors write prescriptions on a tablet using a stylus and automatically recognizes the medicine. We use signature verification techniques to recognize the doctor's handwriting to overcome the problem of misinterpretation of the medicine name by the pharmacist. The proposed system stores different features like the pen coordinates, time, and several pen-ups and pen-downs. Besides using features already proposed in the literature for signature verification, we propose some new features that greatly enhance recognition accuracy. We built a dataset of 24 medicine names from two users and compared results using newly proposed features. We have obtained 84%, 78%, 77.47% 77.31%, 74.17%, 60%, 38.5%, 68%, and 61.64% accuracies for 9 users using SVM classifier.

Inventarisasi Tumbuhan Berkhasiat Obat Sebagai Kandidat Elemen lansekap di Area Terdampak Inisiasi Bandara Kediri di Desa Bulusari

The initiation of the Kediri airport has had a direct impact on the availability of space in Bulusari village. Bulusari Village has a variety of medicinal plants which are still widely used by the community in their daily lives. However, the initiation of Kediri Airport has reduced the ecosystem space for medicinal plants. Conservation efforts need to be made to protect endemic species that can be synergized with the existence of Kediri Airport through the cultivation of medicinal plants as landscape elements. Inventory is the first step in conserving the diversity of medicinal plants in Bulusari village. The purpose of this study to conduct an inventory of medicinal plants that can be used as landscape elements in areas affected by the initiation of Kediri Airport in Bulusari Village. The method used is literature study, survey, observation and identification of medicinal plant names. Determination of the research location was done by purposive random sampling. Observations were made at three types of locations, namely telajakan, gardens and fields. Each sampling plot has an area of ​​10 x 10 m2. The inventory is focused on medicinal plants that just grow in nature or are not directly cultivated by humans. The results showed that there are 45 species of medicinal plants that have the potential as landscape elements with details of the functions as follows; 1) sunscreen, 2) pollutant absorber 3) privacy barrier, 4) wall, 5) space builder, 6) animal habitat, 7) erosion control, 8) aesthetic value, 9) physical barrier to movement of organisms and 10) ground cover.

Compliance of Private Primary Health Care Facilities Towards Requirements of Labelling of Dispensed Medicine in Sarawak.

Compliance towards the requirements of labelling of dispensed medicine (LDM) among private primary health care facilities ensures appropriate use of medicines. This study aimed to examine the rate of compliance towards the requirements of LDM among retail pharmacies (RPs) and private medical clinics (PMCs). A cross-sectional study was conducted from April 2019 to January 2020 across all inspected premises in Sarawak. Publics who attended RPs and PMCs and have medicines dispensed have their medicine labels examined for compliance with the requirements of LDM upon exiting the premises. Their verbal consents were obtained and the compliance score was recorded into self- -developed data collection forms. The compliance rate was the percentage of requirements on the examined medicine labels that fulfill the requirements under Regulation 12 of Poisons Regulations 1952. A total of 414 LDM were examined, with 135 from RPs and 279 from PMCs. The full compliance towards the requirements of LDM among RPs and PMCs were 23.7% and 41.6%, respectively. The median compliance score of PMCs (0.83) was significantly higher (P<0.001) than RPs (0.67). The requirements of LDM with the lowest compliance were name of medicine (53.1%), followed by name of patient (31.9%) and date of dispensing (25.6%). The full compliance rate on the requirements of LDM among RPs and PMCs were low. More stringent enforcement and public education on their rights for fully compliant medicine labels could improve the compliance.

Study to Assess the Drug Consumption and Rationality in the Prescription of Outpatients Undergoing Periodontal Treatment

Drug utilisation research is essential in clinical practice because it serves as the foundation for implementing changes to drug dispensing rules at the local and national levels. The ultimate goal of such a study is to make drug usage more reasonable. This prospective cross-sectional study aimed to collect data on drug utilisation among dental patients from Himachal Pradesh's Department of Periodontics to identify possible targets for improving drug prescribing habits. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, data were collected prospectively from a total of 849 medical records of patients. The patient's information included their OPD number, age, sex, health problem description, and prescription parameters, including medicine name, route, strength, dose form, quantity, duration, investigations, provisional diagnosis, and therapy. Prescriptions were analysed using WHO core drug indicators and WHO ATC/DDD approach to calculate drug consumption. The most prescribed antibiotic was amoxicillin, separately or in combination. The number of DDD consumed and the DDD/1000 population/day was the maximum for vitamins, followed by antibacterial and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The average number of drugs per encounter was 2.2. The percentage of encounters with an antibiotic in prescription was very high i.e., 72.3%. Only 37.6% of medications were prescribed, from NLEM 2015, and 14.60% generic names were prescribed. The dental practitioners did not adhere to WHO prescribing guidelines. The lowered number of prescriptions for generic names was a subject of worry

Smart Medicine Reminder Box

In this paper an advanced medicine box control system is proposed. The medicine box is designed in such a way that it will assists patients in taking their medicine treatment on time. This system can be also monitored by patient. This system characterize some functionalities like safety and good functioning of the system and security. This application will be used to setting the schedule of medical intake, give reminder to user by alarming and blinking the LED. This application will display the name of medicine as well as date and time on the LCD which will help the user to take medicine on time.

Voyage of Ben Cao, Part II: Development of Chinese Medicinal Specimens in the British Museum

Voyage of Ben Cao, Part II: Development of Chinese Medicinal Specimens in the British Museum

The understanding of chronic rhinitis in traditional Chinese medicine and the definition of nasal obstruction disease

This paper reports on review of the conceptual cognition and definition of chronic rhinitis in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Diseases with nasal congestion as the main symptom were recorded in The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huang Di Nei Jing) and Medical Bamboo slips of Wu Wei(Wu Wei Yi Jian), but these diseases had not been given names at that point in time. Chronic rhinitis and acute rhinitis had not been distinguished clearly. Some symptoms, in ancient Chinese medical books, indicated some possibility as those of chronic rhinitis, such as "bi weng"(), "stuffy nose"(), "anosmia" (), "nasal obstruction"(), "stuffy nose with anosmia"() and " poor nasal passages" ().In the first half of the last century, "biyuan"(), "biweng" () and "stuffy nose"() were classified at the symptoms of chronic rhinitis with the same names in traditional Chinese medicine. "Biyuan" was widely used at that time, but was gradually eliminated for the lack of semantic meaning. In the 1970s, "nasal obstruction" was proposed by many textbooks as the name of TCM for chronic rhinitis. In 1980, "nasal obstruction disease"() was finally specified as the formal name by Otorhinolaryngology of TCM (the 4th edition), the national unified textbook. This term has been widely accepted in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, driven by the united textbooks and clinical guidelines, while it is still insufficient in the perspective of meaning and science. The process of normalisation of "nasal obstruction disease" shows that the name of chronic rhinitis in ancient Chinese medicine is not equivalent to its term in modern medicine. It also suggests that the comparison of disease names between traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine must be fully investigated. It is necessary to understand the differences between ancient and modern connotations of terminology when reading and using ancient Chinese medicine literature.

Ethno-botanical Studies and Survey of Rare and Endangered Medicinal Plants of Chang-La (17,688 ft) and Taglang-La (17,582 ft) Region of Union Territory of Ladakh

The paper deals with the ethno-botanical studies and survey of rare and endangered medicinal plants of Chang-La and Taglang-La and surrounding villages (Meru, Lato, Gya, Sasoma and Rumtse). Although the region looks barren and lifeless, it actually represents a treasure house of diversity of plants with high medicinal, aromatic value and also fulfils other useful purposes (such as food, fodder, fuel and ritual requirements). Predominant species of these areas are:- Geranium wallichianum, Carum carvi, Aconogonom tortuosum, Cremanthodium elisii, Corydalis stricta, Oxytropis microphylla, Cicer microphyllum, Rosa webbiana, Caragana versicolor, Artemisia macrocephala, Dracocephalum heterophyllum, Hippophae rhamnoides, Astragalus tibetanus, Thalictrum foliolosum, Delphinium brunonianum. The medicinal plants surveyed during tour was widely used in Sowa- rigpa system of Indian medicine for curing various diseases and ailments as it has no side-effects compared to allopathic medicines. The present paper documents ethno-botanical information of sowa-rigpa traditional medicinal usage by the local people. Around 54 medicinal plants species botanical name, sowa-rigpa name, medicinal use, family, habitat and part uses are enumerated in this paper.

SMART HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

In today’s busy schedule work life, we tend to have a on the go lifestyle. It means that we want to work throughout the day with minimum time. We try to save time in each task of our daily life to do more stuff. In such life whenever we fall ill or get cough or cold like symptoms we seek medical help. We don’t run to a doctor for treatment for such mild illness. If we get the same treatment at our home then it will save more time as well as we can get immediate medication. On the above principle “Smart Healthcare System” works. This device acts as a virtual doctor. Firstly it will display the list of symptoms which are commonly experienced by people in day-to-day life which will be mid illness or diseases. We have to select the symptom that we are facing and the medicine box will rotate and open the portion of the box which contains medicine for the same symptom. Additionally, if we know the medicine name or the doctor asked us to take the medicine, we can select the same medicine from the medicine list which can displayed on the screen. Upon selecting we get the medicine from the box. The medicines which are kept in the box are recommended by doctors. So there will be no such hesitation to the person taking medicines from the medicine box. Keywords – Push switches, 20x4 LCD display, Stepper motor, Medicine box, Step angle.

Understanding of Diabetes in Tibetan, Mongolian, Miao, Dai, Uygur, and Yi Medicine and Collation of Prevention and Cure Medicines.

Diabetes seriously endangers human health and causes a huge economic burden. With the improvement of people's living standard, the prevalence of diabetes is getting higher and higher, and age is becoming younger. It is an increasingly serious global problem. Therefore, it is imperative to find the drugs to treat diabetes. Ethnic medicine is an important part of the world's medicinal treasure house and has its own unique system. This study systematically combined the theoretical understanding of the prevention and treatment of diabetes of Tibetan, Mongolian, Miao, Dai, Uygur, and Yi people by searching the existing literature studies published until 2021, library collection resources (related ethnic monographs, medical books, standards of medicinal materials, etc.), CNKI, PubMed, and other databases and collected and sorted the relevant medicines. A total of 112 kinds of ethnic medicines for the prevention and treatment of diabetes have been discovered, including plant medicines (105 kinds), animal medicines (6 kinds), and fungal medicines (1 kind). The composition of family and genus, medicinal parts, and life forms of medicinal plants were analyzed, and the number of drugs used in the prevention and treatment of diabetes in each ethnic group was statistically analyzed. The results showed that Rosaceae was at the top of the list, and the drugs used in underground parts accounted for 33.90% of the total, and the medicinal plants were mainly herbaceous, and the Mongolians have the largest number of diabetes medicines. In addition, CNKI, PubMed, and other databases selected “medicinal materials name,” “diabetes,” and “hypoglycemia” as keywords, the top 30 medicinal materials reported in existing literature were listed, and their Chinese name, the Latin name of the original plant, family and genus, nationality used, medicinal parts, and active ingredients related to the prevention and treatment of diabetes were introduced in detail. Among the 30 medicines, Astragalus membranaceus, Pueraria lobata, and Coptis chinensis are the most commonly used. Through literature research, this study summarized the existing theories of ethnic medicine for the prevention and treatment of diabetes, collected and sorted out ethnic medicine, clarified the potential mechanism of ethnic medicine, and provided effective data compilation. Ethnic medicine has a long history of treating diabetes, and there are abundant medicinal materials, to provide a new idea and basis for treating diabetes.

The assessment of economic affordability of antiviral herbal medicines presented at the domestic pharmaceutical market

One of the most urgent problems of our time is the high morbidity and mortality of people from viral infections, which can affect almost all organs and systems of the host body. Significant damage to the health of the population and the economy of countries is caused by the incidence of viral diseases. An important issue in the process of pharmacotherapy of patients with viral infections is to provide them with a sufficient number of effective, safe and affordable drugs, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, which humanity actively fought during 2019-2020 and is still fighting today. Aim. To conduct the marketing analysis of the range of antiviral herbal medicines presented at the pharmaceutical market of Ukraine during 2019-2020 and their marketing characteristics. Materials and methods. The study used a list of antiviral herbal medicines according to the State Register of Medicines of Ukraine, the Compendium, and scientific articles of professional publications. The main research methods were systematic, comparative, marketing analysis of the drug market structure, monitoring and graphical method. Results and discussion. According to the PBX international classification system, antiviral medicines based on the plant raw material belong to the group of drugs applied as antimicrobial agents for systemic use. According to the PBX classification, medicines that mainly belong to the J05AX ** group – “Antiviral drugs for systemic use. Antiviral drugs.Others.” were of interest. It was found that as of 01.01.2019, the Ukrainian market of the group studied was formed by domestic manufacturers, there were 4 names of medicines and 4 manufacturing companies. Drugs were presented at the pharmaceutical market in the form of drops, syrups, suppositories and tablets. It was determined that the most available drugs within 2019-2020 were Altabor, Erebra and Flavovir although during the study period there was a steady increase in prices for drugs of this group at the pharmaceutical market. Therefore, it should be noted that from year to year their affordability for consumers decreases. Conclusions. The marketing research has been performed, and the assortment structure of antiviral herbal medicines presented at the pharmaceutical market of Ukraine has been analyzed. The indicators characterizing the market situation, such as offers, product range, price dynamics and the coefficients of availability, adequacy of solvency, etc., have been studied.

Nomenclature standardization of Chinese medicine extracts and components

Chinese medicine extracts are the important pharmaceutical materials of Chinese medicinal preparations, but their nomenclature still needs improvement in the field of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM). By the analysis of the evolution rules of names of Chinese medicine extracts recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, this study proposed a three-level nomenclature of &quot;Chinese medicine name+chemical information+extract&quot; based on the standardization problems involved in the existing nomenclature, striving to accurately suggest the material basic information on extract names. Meanwhile, the basic elements of Chinese medicine components, the special case from Chinese medicine extracts, were clarified, and the core connotations of the professional names were discriminated to arouse attention and discussions of researchers, facilitate the standardization of Chinese medicine terminology, and promote the scienti-fic development of Chinese medicinal preparations, and the modernization and internationalization of Chinese medicine.

Application of random forest model to predict the demand of essential medicines for non-communicable diseases management in public health facilities.

Introductionrecent initiatives in healthcare reform have pushed for a better understanding of data complexity and revolution. Given the global prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) and the economic and clinical burden they impose, it is recommended that the management of essential medicines used to treat them be renovated and optimized through the application of predictive modeling such a RF model.Methodsin this study, a series of data pre-processing activities were used to select the top seventeen (17) NCD essential medicines most commonly used for treating common and frequent NCD. The study focused on machine learning (ML) applications, whereby a random forest (RF) model was applied to predict the demand using essential medicines consumption data from 2015 to 2019 for approximately 500 medical products.Resultswith a seventy-eight (78) percent accuracy rate for the training set and a 71 percent accuracy rate for the testing set, the RF model predicted the trend in demand for 17 NCD essential medicines. This was achieved by entering the month, year, district, and name of the NCD essential medicine. Based on historical consumption data, the RF model can thus be used to predict demand trends. Our findings showed that the RF model is talented to commendably perform as a predicting model.Conclusionthe study concluded that RF has the ability to optimize health supply chain planning and operational management by boosting the accuracy in predicting the demand trend for NCD essential medicines.

Clinical Experience of Liang Junzhao in the Treatment of Premature Ventricular Contractions

Premature ventricular contraction is a common disease of cardiovascular diseases, its incidence increases with the age of the current western medicine treatment of premature ventricular easy to produce bradycardia heart block, aggravating heart failure and other side effects, while traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of premature ventricular has definite curative effect, small side effects, good prognosis and other unique advantages Liang Junzhao, the name of traditional Chinese medicine combined with many years of clinical experience, that the disease because of Qi deficiency and blood stasis, mind loss, clinical to Yi qi and blood circulation, fumaianshen prescription and curative effect is significant for the treatment of ventricular premature beats to provide a new dialectical thinking.

Knowledge and Practice Regarding Topical Corticosteroids Among Dispensers in Community Pharmacies of Kathmandu Valley: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Introduction: Topical corticosteroids (TCS) abuse and misuse are constantly rising in an alarming proportion, the main reason for this being free availability of such drugs over the counter (OTC) and pharmacists are one of the major prescribers of TCS. The present study was thus conducted to address the gap in information regarding the knowledge and practice of using corticosteroids among dispensers in community pharmacies. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional survey was carried out among the dispensers in community pharmacies inside Kathmandu valley from March 2020 to March 2021. A survey was conducted with a questionnaire which included questions to assess the knowledge and practice regarding TCS among dispensers in community pharmacies. Microsoft Excel 2010 and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) 16 were used for data analysis. Results: Among 209 participants, 83.73% of the participants had education related to pharmacy. They had good knowledge about brand names, generic names, and side effects of steroids. Maximum number (40.19%) of the participants responded that while coming to buy steroid creams, the patients come without prescription but with the name or cover of medicine. Majority of participants (66.51%) responded that they encounter 1-5 patients per day with recurrence of skin problems after stopping the application of creams. Conclusion: The dispensers at community pharmacies reported having good knowledge about TCS. However, there is a need to strengthen the knowledge regarding indications of TCs including ethical and rational use of TCs among the dispensers in community pharmacies.