Month: October 2011

Pharmacists take the role of patients to learn the keys to the service of dispensing.

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Pharmacists take the role of patients to learn the keys to the service of dispensing.

VII Congress of pharmaceutical care – Pharmaceutical Care.Juego of role-play.

-an interactive workshop taught pharmacists keys to transform its work on the provision of medicines to a correct service of pharmaceutical care

– took place in the 7th National Congress of pharmaceutical care Pharmaceutical Care Foundation organized in Vigo between 29 September and 1 October

– “ is a way of learning, through a fun activity, to optimize the knowledge and professionalism in the customer in the community pharmacy ”, said Raquel Varas, pharmacy in the area of relief services of the General Council of official colleges of pharmacists and head of the workshop

-interview with the patient, information management and registration of the action are the three basic elements that the Professional must take care when it comes to care for their patients

Vigo, 2011-October the dispensing of medicines in a pharmacy is not only providing medications to patients. It is much more. According Forum of pharmaceutical care in its document of consensus in 2008, the dispensation, as a basic service of AF, is the “ professional service of the pharmacist to ensure that patients receive and use drugs in a manner appropriate to their clinical needs after an individual assessment, precise doses according to their individual requirements, during the appropriate time, with the necessary information for an optimal process of use ”.

VII Congress of pharmaceutical care, organized by the Pharmaceutical Care Foundation in Vigo between 29 September and 1 October, hosted a workshop whose aim has been to raise own pharmacists of the importance of its work in caring for patients, and the need that the dispensation of drugs is done in a correct way, always ensuring the adequate knowledge and implementation of treatments.

For Raquel Varas in the area of relief services of the General Council of official colleges of pharmacists and Director of the workshop, the pharmacist “ not only has to know the medicines, but that you can establish a dialogue with the patient and through proper communication, know your situation and your medications; Thus, at the request of a medicinal product and after verify systematically that the patient or the caregiver have information sufficient for the effective and safe use, the pharmacist evaluates (with available information) that the medication is appropriate for that patient and proceeds to its delivery together with the information necessary for an optimum use ”.

For rods, there are three basic elements to carry out a good delivery service. The interview with the patient (communication, information and education), unlike the in the service of monitoring pharmacotherapy; the management of information related to drugs (home treatments or usual, knowledge of the process of use of the drug by the patient, percepeción of safety and effectiveness of treatment); and the registration of the appropriate intervention action.

Exchange of roles

The workshop is how to carry out a dispensation as AF service in the community pharmacy? He raised an activity in which participating pharmacists exchanged experiences through a role play game, in such a way that they have been able to interact by pharmacists or patients in specific situations and with specific scripts for each paper, with media general documentation to develop the proposed examples and videos of the cases.

“ The objective of the workshop has been to publicize in the actual practice of the community pharmacy, how can we transform the provision of medicines in service delivery, learning in a fun way, to optimize the knowledge and professionalism in community pharmacy customer care ”summed up Raquel Varas.

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Systematic economic evaluation of pharmaceutical services reduces the health spending.

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Systematic economic evaluation of pharmaceutical services reduces spending health.

VII National Congress of pharmaceutical care.

-Economic assessment would allow the pharmacist make their pharmaceutical care with better information on the efficiency of the different interventions, improving the efficiency of the health system

-this would affect both primary care and specialty care expenditure-saving

-to determine what pharmaceutical interventions are the most effective in patients It is necessary, first, to extend the pharmaceutical care to all pharmacies, then, evaluate various interventions

Vigo, Galicia, 2011-October “ currently, to reduce pharmaceutical spending, only it is acting on the price of medicines, not on other formulas that can contribute significantly to improving the efficiency of the national health system, as it is the economic evaluation applied to pharmaceutical care ”. This is the situation the economy’s health, Ángel Sanz Granda, expert pointed out during his presentation on the economic evaluation of pharmaceutical care in the 7th National Congress of pharmaceutical care held in Vigo from September 29 to October 1.

For Sanz Granda, “ an effort to develop in all pharmacies in Spain pharmaceutical care, making it a totally regular and standardized activity, prerequisite to assess economically such interventions is first necessary to ”. In this process, the expert has pointed out some disadvantages, mainly derived from the rigidity of the legal regulations that the drug carries about.

Subsequently, “ economic evaluation pursues the quantification of the resources used to estimate the cost to each of the interventions, in this case, pharmaceutical care, and what health outcomes produced. The joint analysis of these two figures leads to the efficiency of pharmaceutical interventions. With this information, the health administration would have elements to promote the application of resources in those interventions that have demonstrated scientifically that they are more efficient ”.

The expert has tempered the economic evaluation of pharmaceutical care isn’t wholistic, “ but that allows to identify interventions most appropriate according to pathologies or needs, taking into account also the specificities of certain profiles of patients and users ”.

“ For example, in the case of diabetes type 2, today is discouraged the self-control of their blood glucose in a comprehensive manner, when scientific studies have shown that it is efficient for certain groups of patients with diabetes with a specific profile. The identification of what interventions are most effective for each patient profile would be a cost savings for the health system from the first moment ”, explained.

Angel Sanz Granda has drawn attention that certain measures applied “ of isolation in certain areas, such as primary care ”, may affect other parts of the health system, in a manner contrary “ for which a cost-cutting without taking into account the total interdependence of the health system can cause increases in costs, unwanted in other components of the system ”.

“ Spending on medicines is one of the few health magnitudes which has complete information. For this reason, most of the health expenditure-cutting measures are aimed in that direction. However, the economic evaluation of health services and technologies allows to adjust expenses so that money obtained the maximum benefit. Assessment gives a double positive outcome: on the one hand, helps citizens to give the best service or technology available, and, on the other hand, allows a substantial cost savings to the health system, both short-term and medium and long term ”, has stressed the expert.

Pharmaceutical care is the active participation of the pharmacist in the improvement of the quality of life of the patient through the dispensation, indicating and monitoring pharmacotherapy. Such participation involves cooperation with your doctor and other health professionals to achieve results that will improve the quality of life of the patient, as well as its involvement in activities that provide good health and prevent diseases.

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Nutrition Center offers nutritional recommendations to patients who has practiced an ostomy.

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Nutrition Center offers recommendations food to patients who has practiced an ostomy.

– will be in the paper “ nutrition and intestinal health. Probiotics: the best allies of our gut ”, held on the occasion of the presentation of the consultation Tomelloso’s Hospital offers patients

Huelva, 2011-October next on October 6, the General Hospital of Tomelloso presents training activities has been launched after the opening of your new query to try to Ostomy patients. So, have been organized lectures, in which in addition to explain its operation, in the hands of Julia Ruiz, nurse and responsible for consultation, and the surgeon Mihai Paduraru, Sara Jiménez, technical director and Marta Gámez Nutrition Center r & d Department are responsible for reporting on the best food in these patients.

And it is that patients who have been operated, especially of a body related to the digestive system, is crucial both for a faster recovery to obtain greater well-being and improve quality of life.

Why, Nutrition Center, multinational dedicated to nutritional advice in pharmacies, has wanted to participate in the presentation of this consultation. Sara Jiménez, technical director of Nutrition Center and Marta Gámez, of r & d, star in the paper “ nutrition and intestinal health. Probiotics: the best allies of our gut ”, where will try to get closer to the patient, in a simple way, the knowledge of the intestinal flora.

In this way, they will address issues such as what is, why it is important and how the intestinal flora affects our health. It seeks to clarify concepts as the “ effect bifidus ”, well known by all, but that is not clearly defined. In addition, higiénico-dietéticas tools will be given to promote intestinal health.

On NC

Nutrition Center (NC) is a pharmaceutical laboratory, with international presence, consolidated as a reference in the field of nutrition in pharmacies. The great value of NC are its graduates in nutrition and dietetics professionals that perform a nutritional advice designing healthy diets, aimed at eliminating poor nutritional habits caused by our accelerated lifestyle.

Nutrition Center has revolutionized the market of the self-management of health introducing Control of P3SO, an innovative range of nutritional supplements, developed by the company r & d Department and endorsed by the Universidad Europea de Madrid (Chair in NC). Today, the Control of P3SO products are those contributing more security and confidence in the sector of nutrition and the weight control in pharmacies.

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Associations of patients with mucopolisacaridósis (MPS) requested regional administrations to improve access to treatment.

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The associations of patients with mucopolisacaridósis (MPS) requested regional administrations to improve access to treatment.

his Highness Real Doña Letizia Ortiz opened last Saturday in Barcelona VII Congress national Científico-Familiar of MPS, which had the support of the Genzyme Foundation among others.


-The MPS are a group of inherited metabolic disorders caused by mutations that cause alterations in certain enzymes

– Las MPS occur mostly in children, with life expectancy average between 10 and 15 years of age

– many expectations to be able to repair the genetic alteration directly in bodies are made in gene therapy affected

-neonatal screening could contribute significantly to the early diagnosis of these diseases, but still must refine

Barcelona, October 2011.on Saturday October 1 was held in Barcelona the 7th National Congress Científico-Familiar of Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS), a group of inherited metabolic diseases caused by the absence or the malfunction of certain enzymes needed for the processing of molecules called glycosaminoglycans (also called mucopolysaccharides) present in each of our cells and that they help to build bonesthe cartilage, tendons, the corneas, skin and connective tissue. This brings with it the progressive formation of accumulation and consequent impairment of vital organs. The event was organized by the Federation of associations MPS and counted with the support of the Genzyme Foundation among others.

The MPS are given exclusively in children, with life expectancy average between 10 and 15 years of age. “ When the disease reaches the brain of the patient, it begins to lose skills such as speech, or walking, and can be reach situations of total dependence ”, explains Jordi Cruz, President of the Federation of associations MPS. Depending on the affected enzyme, there are different syndromes. “ Only three of them currently have a relatively effective enzyme replacement therapy ”, says. “ Although they fail to cure the disease, it is true that improve the quality of life of these people in an important way ”, adds. Above all this, the expert has been highlighted the important role of the pharmaceutical industry in search of healing treatments for these diseases.

Says Dr. Mercedes Pineda, neuropediatra of Hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona, physician and Advisor to MPS Spain, “ in gene therapy are placed many hopes to reinstate the defective enzyme directly affected bodies ”. In this regard, at the Congress were presented the preliminary results of a possible gene therapy for syndrome Sanfilippo, one of the MPS more prevalent in our country will also be made before the project of Coenzyme Q10, a powerful antioxidant which is already used in some diseases and is starting to implement in a small number of patients with Sanfilippo syndrome to see what the positive effects are. “ Even though it isn’t healing, yes improves the quality of life for these patients significantly ”, says the expert.

As with the majority of rare diseases, the MPS tend to be diagnosed in very advanced stages, what “ is a major problem with a view to their subsequent boarding ”, says. “ While more severe clinical forms tend to identify the year of life, the rest of the cases may take up to five ”, according to Dr. Pineda. Neonatal screening could make an important contribution to the early diagnosis of these diseases, although “ still must refine ”. There are some parts of Spain where is beginning to set in motion. Main demand which makes this group of patients to the autonomous administrations has to do with access to treatments: “ depending on the autonomous communities concerned can spend weeks since the requested medication unless you get really ”. Similarly, the expert has stressed the importance of aid for further research in these pathologies.

The official act of inauguration of the VII Congress national Científico-Familiar of MPS had the presence of his Highness Real Doña Letizia Ortiz, Princess of Asturias; Doña Ana Ripoll, Rector of the Autonomous University of Barcelona; and Don Miquel Vilardell, President of the official College of physicians of Barcelona and Adviser of the Department of health of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips