Pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences
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Comparing Patient Satisfaction: Telepharmacy vs. In-Person Counseling
— Patient satisfaction is a core indicator of quality in pharmacy services and a powerful predictor of adherence, persistence, and clinical outcomes. Rapid diffusion of telepharmacy—video, phone, and asynchronous chat–based counseling—promises gains in access and convenience…
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Nano-Enabled Preservation Technology for Extending Shelf Life of Fresh Fruits
Fresh-fruit preservation requires simultaneous control of moisture loss, softening, microbial deterioration and nutritional degradation. Nano-enabled edible coatings offer a promising approach by combining film-forming biopolymers with nanoscale delivery systems or functional particles. This paper critically examines…
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Integrating Biotechnology Research into Commercial Healthcare Solutions
— The intersection of biotechnology and commercial healthcare is revolutionizing diagnostics, therapeutics, drug discovery, personalized medicine, and regenerative therapies. Advances in genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, AI-driven drug development, and synthetic biology have enabled groundbreaking innovations in precision…
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Medical Science Assessment of Pharmacy Practices and Patient Safety in Healthcare: A Multi-Site Evaluation of Clinical Pharmacy Interventions
— Medication-related harm remains a leading and largely preventable cause of injury in healthcare, and pharmacy practice sits at every stage of the medication-use process where that harm arises. This study assessed the impact of a…
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Artificial Intelligence in Personalized Pharmacotherapy: Integrating Patient Data, Predictive Analytics, and Clinical Decision Support
— Personalized pharmacotherapy seeks to match the right drug and dose to the individual patient, yet clinicians still rely heavily on population-average dosing that ignores genetic, clinical and contextual variability. This study developed and evaluated an…
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Machine Learning Interpretability and Pharmacist Trust
— As machine learning (ML) systems begin to inform dispensing checks, antimicrobial stewardship, medication therapy management, and pharmacovigilance, the question is no longer whether pharmacists will encounter algorithmic recommendations, but whether—and under what conditions—they will trust…
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Cloud-Based Data Platforms for Pharmacy Research Collaboration
— Pharmacy research increasingly depends on accessing, combining, and analyzing large, heterogeneous datasets—ranging from electronic health records and dispensing logs to pharmacovigilance reports, wearables, and social determinants of health. Traditional, siloed infrastructures struggle to support this…
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Governance of Big Data in Pharmacy Patient Profiling
— The growing availability of pharmacy data—from e-prescriptions, dispensing logs, medication therapy management (MTM) notes, claims, wearables, and patient-reported outcomes—has enabled increasingly granular patient profiling to predict adherence risk, optimize therapy, and support pharmacovigilance. Yet these…
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Regulatory Changes and Telehealth Pharmacy Practice
— Telehealth pharmacy matured rapidly during and after the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and the rules that govern it have shifted almost as quickly. This manuscript synthesizes recent regulatory changes (2020–2025) that shape how pharmacists…
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Integration of AI Recommendation Engines in Retail Pharmacy Cross-Selling and Customer Loyalty Programs
Retail pharmacies sit at the intersection of healthcare and consumer retail, where every transaction can either be a one-off purchase or the start of a longer therapeutic relationship. Artificial intelligence (AI) recommendation engines—long proven in e-commerce—are…