Apha Publishes Pharmacy Field's First Book On Cultural Competence The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) published the profession's first textbook on cultural competence this month. Essentials of Cultural Competence in Pharmacy Practice is designed to help pharmacists and student pharmacists improve their cultural competence and excel in today's multicultural world.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSummer Meeting Networking Session To Show Off Patient Safety Strategies, USA Pharmacists who have significantly improved outcomes for patients will share their strategies during an interactive information session at ASHP's upcoming Summer Meeting, June 8-11 in Seattle. The networking session on Wednesday, June 10, will highlight a new patient safety initiative sponsored by the
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comIn Transition To Alcohol Dependence The Role Of Genes Increases The influence of genetics increases as young women transition from taking their first drink to becoming alcoholics. A team of researchers at Washington University School of
Medicine in St. Louis found that although environment is most influential in determining when girls begin to drink, genes play a larger role if they advance to problem drinking and alcohol dependence.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRoad Signs Inspire A New Iconic Drug Information System Although drug
prescriptions are notoriously difficult to read, prescribing errors due to a lack of knowledge of drug properties are a worse problem.Now, a new information icon system has been developed by researchers in France. The researchers describe their system, a graphical language for medical knowledge visualisation called VCM (Visualisation des Connaissances Médicales), in the open access journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
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