Pharmacy is regarded as the science and technique utilized in preparation and dispersion of drugs and medicine. Pharmacy is also considered as a profession of health.
This profession maintains a link between health and chemical sciences and provides an assurance of safe and effective application of the pharmaceutical drugs and medicines.
The key roles played by a pharmacy professional includes compounding and dispensing medications, clinical services, medication review for safety and efficacy and informing about the effects and side effects of various drugs.
Pharmacists are the professionals that are veterans in drug therapy and can be considered as primary health guards who can be consulted and asked for medication for betterment of a patient.
1. U.S. Consumer Perceptions of Pharmacy Retail
Only 33% of the mass retail pharmacy customers agree that they are aware of the loyalty programs. However, the percentage was 43% in the smaller chain of retail customers. 32% of the mass retail pharmacy customers agreed that they always find attractive price promotions. 44% of them gave similar response in the small chain customers.
2. Health On Smartphone
It has been found that smart phones are very popular among the doctors after stethoscope. It was found that nearly 60% of them uses tablets and half of them use it at the point-of-care. It was also detected that nearly 247mn people have downloaded health application on their smart phones.
3. The Stats On Pharmaceutical Companies
The United States of America is found paying the greatest cost over health and care in the whole world. The top ten big pharmacy companies in the world include the Phzer, MERCK, Johnson and Johnson, Abbot Laboratories, Bayer, Gsk, Aventis, Astra zeneca, Roche, Novartis.
4. Mental Illness
It was suggested that 1 in every 5 Americans suffers from medical illness which is equivalent of nearly 57.7 million of Americans, each year. Among the total number of Medical aid disables beneficiaries around 49% are facing one or other type of mental illness.
5. The Cost Of The War On Drugs
Statistics revealed that the total number of arrests made in the United States in year 2007 were 14,209,365, out of which 13% were arrested due to prohibition of drugs. The number is equivalent of putting everyone living in Alaska and Hawaii in the jail.
6. The Future of Pharmacy Profession
The expected growth rate of the pharmacy industry from year 2010-2020 is of 32%. This is said to be more than double the rate of the growth rate of all other professions. It is also predicted that pharmaceutical is a grand business in upcoming years. People doing pharmacy businesses will be earning in thousands of dollars in future.
7. Prescription Drug Benefit Survey
PBM stands for Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM). They are stand alone 3rd party prescription drug administrators. Survey conducted over 220 organizational employees suggested that nearly 57% of employees are using PBMs, currently.
8. Prescription Drug Overuse In US
It is said that Americans are under a disbelief that their pills cure anything that make them ill and they are found to be consuming maximum drugs. There were nearly 4.2 billion prescriptions written in USA in year 2011. This is equivalent to 13 prescriptions to each American on daily basis.
9. Why Americans Pay So Much For Brand-Name Drugs
It was found that drugs are more expensive in US than anywhere else in the world. The percentage rate for the same is 118% more. The total amount expenditure on each person on drugs in US is $919, in Ireland its 654, in Italy it is $561 and it is $558 in Japan.
10. Teenagers Are More Addicted To Prescription Drugs
Survey conducted by a drug selling organization revealed that most of the prescription drugs are opted by the young people instead of the old.1 in every 4 teenagers have used prescription drug in lifetime. The number is 1 in 5 for the old one.
11. A History Of Crufts Vs Vet Medic Pharmacy
Crufts is one of the greatest dog shows. It was founded by Charles Crufts in year 1886. A total of 578 entries for participation were received at that time. The show aimed at health and hygienic awareness among dog owners.
12. C+D Online
A healthcare website found that near about 57%of the total people signed up with them are pharmacists 21% of them belong to other profession, 10% of them belonged to some other health care profession.
13. Is Sharing Physical Illness On Social Websites
As social media have always brought people closer, the concept is also being applied by the health care professionals and patients. 28W% people believe that it is healthy to share about your medical history in public, on various social media.
14. Generation Rx
It was notified that 70% of the people who abuses the prescription drugs get the prescription from either a family member or from a friend. Near about 10,000 people in UK abuses prescription drug for the first time every day.
15. The Prescription Drug Price Tsunami
It was found that most of the prescription received by Americans is in the initial months of the year .Statistics suggested that the prescription receiving percentage is 48% in starting months, 21% in mid months and 11% in the last months.
16. Mental Illness
Mental illnesses are the medical conditions that interrupt a person’s thinking power, feeling, mood, ability to react to daily functions etc. Tens of Millions of people get affected by mental illnesses every year. It was detected that 1 in every 17 Americans suffers from mental illness.
17. Benefits Of Using Kmart Pharmacy
The benefits of using Kmart pharmacy products include free home delivery all around the nation, same day store pick up services for the areas that not come under delivery. Customers also get a reward of 500 points on every new purchase.
18. The Economy Of Counterfeit Drugs
These are the prescribed drugs that act in an opposite way than expected and can turn your condition worse than treating that ailment for which the drug was taken. Survey suggested that 10% of the medicines in USA are counterfeit. 60% of them don’t possess the active ingredients, 17% of them have incorrect level of dosage and 16% of them have incorrect ingredients.
19. Technology Adoption In Medical World
Technology is entering the health field to a major extend. Physicians are now bringing technology in use for maintaining digital health records of various patients and cases. The adoption of EHR systems by the office based physicians have increased from 42% in year 2008 to 72% in year 2012. However, the basic EHR systems have been adopted by 40% of physicians in 2012, which was 17% in 2008.
Near about 346 million people suffer from diabetes, all around the world. 90% of the total people suffer from Type 2 diabetes and the remaining 10% suffers from Type 1 diabetes. The former one usually appears after the age of 40; however the later one appears before the age of 40.