Pharmacy & Health Care Flashcards
People have used drugs derived from plants to treat illnesses and other physical conditions for thousands of years. The ancient Greek’s use the bark of a white willow tree to relieve pain. The bark contained salicylic acid, the natural four runner of the active ingredient in aspirin.
Herbal medicine
The study of drugs their properties uses application and effects
Pharmacology
The first useful drug in the treatment of malaria, one of mankind’s most deadly diseases. It was extracted from the bark of a Peruvian tree, the Cinchona
Quinine
The first effective local anesthetic.
Cocaine
The drug of the foxglove plant, which has been widely used in treating heart disease.
Digitalis
Drugs created by reformulating simpler chemicals into more complex ones, creating a new chemical not found in nature.
Synthetic drugs
This measure of health has increased by over 30 years in between 1900 and 2012.
Average life span
The theory that microorganisms cause food spoilage.
Germ Theroy
The use of an injectable vaccine made from killed polio virus and an oral polio vaccine made from a weakened form of live polio virus was important to prevent the spread of this crippling and often fatal disease.
Polio Vaccine
The hormone that lowers blood sugar in the treatment of diabetes-one of the great discoveries in medicine in the twentieth century.
Insulin
The first antibiotic.
Penicillin
An attempt to map the entire DNA sequence in the human genome. This information will provide a better understanding of hereditary diseases and how to treat them.
Human Genome Project
To become a pharmacist in the US, a person must earn a Phd in pharmacy from accredited college. Must pass a state licensing exam and continue education to maintain license.
Pharmacist Education and Training
A significant trend in recent health care has been the effort to control the cost of prescription drugs, one aspect of which is the use of closed “ formularies” that rely substantially on substituting generic drugs in place of more expensive brands.
Cost Control
Pharmacy computer systems put customer profiles, product, inventory, pricing, and other essential information within easy access. One result has been that pharmacies and pharmacists dispense more prescriptions and information than ever before.
Computerization
