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Jet Age Injection
Planning committee for the eighth prepharmacy advisor's conference slated for June 24-25 at the Uni versity of Texas include (left to right) Jaime Delgado, Esther Jane Wood Hall, Glenn Appelt and Frank Cosgrove. This annual program is designed to present material to college student advisors which will be useful in planning prepharmacy programs and in advising their students of the opportunities in pharmacy as a career.
standing, pharmacists and physicians attended the recent American College of Clinical Pharmacology and Chemotherapy program in Philadelphia. April 29-30. The objectives of the College advanced at the seminar included a forum for exchanging information and ideas, consultation and guidance with and by experts in their fields (drug development and proper conduct of human experimentation and the applications of clinical and experimental pharmacology).
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v.p. ; James Hobert, treas., and Murray Appel, secy .... .Donald Dee, former field secretary for Mich . State PhA, has been appointed executive secretary of Minn. PhA to succeed Henry Moen ....• Former deputy medical director of FDA, Joseph M. Pisani, MD, has been appointed medical director of the Proprietary Assn. and president of its research affiliate, the Therapeutic Research Foundation.
interest in hallucinogens .American Society of Pharmacognosy annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minn., July 5-9, to feature scientific symposium on natural products in mental
Community pharmacists, manufacturing pharmacists, wholesalers and educators attended the 15th annual pharmaceutical conference at Rutgers University college of pharmacy last month. Featured topics were medicare and recent health care legislation.
internationally speaking In tema tionally, heal th organizations are promoting continued education also.
health including discussion of nature's hallucinogens, biochemical effects of psycho tomimetics, physiological properties of habit forming drugs and methods for production of hallucinogenic compounds.
colleges
new titles .APHA member Gerhard Levy has been named chairman of the department of pharmaecutics at U of Buffalo (N.Y.), replacing late Eino Nelson .... .L. Wait Rising appointed director of continuing education for U of Wash. college of pharmacy. He will be responsible for the expanding programs for continuing education sponsored by the college.
The Royal Society of Health in England will hold its first international health conference in Holland, September 5-9, 1966. Topics covered include community mental health, fluoridation, housing, air pollution control and health and care of immigrants and health education. Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands will be grand patron of the conference and all papers presented will be translated simultaneously into English, French and German . •
government
change of scenery • John H. Kelso has been appointed executive officer of PHS responsible for operating policies, practices and procedures throughout the Service ....• Rupert Salisbury, executive secretary of the Ohio State Bd. of Pharmacy, will resign his position August 31, 1966 to accept the post of assistant dean of the Ohio State U college of pharmacy.
from the FDA • FDA Commissioner James L. Goddard has called upon the nation's chemical suppliers to help FDA combat illicit traffic in dangerous and illegal hallu-
cinogenic drugs, by assuming a definite responsibility in seeing that chemicals used in the syn thesis of such drugs as LSI)..25, dimethyl tryptamine, psilocybin and mescaline, psicocyn do not get into the hands of persons who would divert them to illegal use .... • Labeling and advertising claims for certain coronary vasodilators have been restricted by FDA. The agency prohibited the manufacturers of drugs containing amyl nitrite, erythritol tetranitrate, mannitol hexanitrite, nitroglycerin, potassium nitrite, sodium nitrite, inositol hexanitrate, isosorbide dinitrate, octyl nitrite, pentaerythritol tetranitrate and trolnitrate phosphate for claiming effectiveness for any heart condition
jet age injection technic for injecting insulin without a needle employs a A new jet injector to administer the medication by high pressure. Reported in the March 7 issue of J AMA, injectors were shown to be as effective if not more so than the conventional needle injection. Charles Weller, MD, and Morton Linder, MD, using a Hypospray injector demonstrated that absorption rates after injection were as high as those achieved with injection by needle and syringe, with little or no pain experienced by the patient. This method, they stated, affords great accuracy, ease of administration and safety. It was shown that the medication is more widely diffused by the jet method and the control of blood sugar and the effect on local tissues were the same. The visually handicapped may find the jet injection to be most useful, they said. 348
Journal of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
These injectors, designed to administer injections under great pressure when held next to the body, feature either ampules containing Icc of insulin or multi dose ampules with capacity of 2-50cc. The force or pressure is created by cocking the injector with a twist handle which compresses a set of springs and retracts a plunger, simultaneously drawing into the medication chamber a preset dose of insulin. When the injection button is pressed. the springs are released, the plunger driven forward and the insulin ejected from the nozzle at a force of 12,000 pounds per square inch. The ejection lasts 1/1,000 of a second. The path and depth of penetration is controlled by the valve and the proper dosage is controlled by an external sleeve. When insulin is being administered, a separate 40-unit or 80-unit insulin scale is used and the dosage indicator can be set for changes down to one unit of insulin if necessary . •
standing, pharmacists and physicians attended the recent American College of Clinical Pharmacology and Chemotherapy program in Philadelphia. April 29-30. The objectives of the College advanced at the seminar included a forum for exchanging information and ideas, consultation and guidance with and by experts in their fields (drug development and proper conduct of human experimentation and the applications of clinical and experimental pharmacology).
(continued from page 346)
v.p. ; James Hobert, treas., and Murray Appel, secy .... .Donald Dee, former field secretary for Mich . State PhA, has been appointed executive secretary of Minn. PhA to succeed Henry Moen ....• Former deputy medical director of FDA, Joseph M. Pisani, MD, has been appointed medical director of the Proprietary Assn. and president of its research affiliate, the Therapeutic Research Foundation.
interest in hallucinogens .American Society of Pharmacognosy annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minn., July 5-9, to feature scientific symposium on natural products in mental
Community pharmacists, manufacturing pharmacists, wholesalers and educators attended the 15th annual pharmaceutical conference at Rutgers University college of pharmacy last month. Featured topics were medicare and recent health care legislation.
internationally speaking In tema tionally, heal th organizations are promoting continued education also.
health including discussion of nature's hallucinogens, biochemical effects of psycho tomimetics, physiological properties of habit forming drugs and methods for production of hallucinogenic compounds.
colleges
new titles .APHA member Gerhard Levy has been named chairman of the department of pharmaecutics at U of Buffalo (N.Y.), replacing late Eino Nelson .... .L. Wait Rising appointed director of continuing education for U of Wash. college of pharmacy. He will be responsible for the expanding programs for continuing education sponsored by the college.
The Royal Society of Health in England will hold its first international health conference in Holland, September 5-9, 1966. Topics covered include community mental health, fluoridation, housing, air pollution control and health and care of immigrants and health education. Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands will be grand patron of the conference and all papers presented will be translated simultaneously into English, French and German . •
government
change of scenery • John H. Kelso has been appointed executive officer of PHS responsible for operating policies, practices and procedures throughout the Service ....• Rupert Salisbury, executive secretary of the Ohio State Bd. of Pharmacy, will resign his position August 31, 1966 to accept the post of assistant dean of the Ohio State U college of pharmacy.
from the FDA • FDA Commissioner James L. Goddard has called upon the nation's chemical suppliers to help FDA combat illicit traffic in dangerous and illegal hallu-
cinogenic drugs, by assuming a definite responsibility in seeing that chemicals used in the syn thesis of such drugs as LSI)..25, dimethyl tryptamine, psilocybin and mescaline, psicocyn do not get into the hands of persons who would divert them to illegal use .... • Labeling and advertising claims for certain coronary vasodilators have been restricted by FDA. The agency prohibited the manufacturers of drugs containing amyl nitrite, erythritol tetranitrate, mannitol hexanitrite, nitroglycerin, potassium nitrite, sodium nitrite, inositol hexanitrate, isosorbide dinitrate, octyl nitrite, pentaerythritol tetranitrate and trolnitrate phosphate for claiming effectiveness for any heart condition
jet age injection technic for injecting insulin without a needle employs a A new jet injector to administer the medication by high pressure. Reported in the March 7 issue of J AMA, injectors were shown to be as effective if not more so than the conventional needle injection. Charles Weller, MD, and Morton Linder, MD, using a Hypospray injector demonstrated that absorption rates after injection were as high as those achieved with injection by needle and syringe, with little or no pain experienced by the patient. This method, they stated, affords great accuracy, ease of administration and safety. It was shown that the medication is more widely diffused by the jet method and the control of blood sugar and the effect on local tissues were the same. The visually handicapped may find the jet injection to be most useful, they said. 348
Journal of the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION
These injectors, designed to administer injections under great pressure when held next to the body, feature either ampules containing Icc of insulin or multi dose ampules with capacity of 2-50cc. The force or pressure is created by cocking the injector with a twist handle which compresses a set of springs and retracts a plunger, simultaneously drawing into the medication chamber a preset dose of insulin. When the injection button is pressed. the springs are released, the plunger driven forward and the insulin ejected from the nozzle at a force of 12,000 pounds per square inch. The ejection lasts 1/1,000 of a second. The path and depth of penetration is controlled by the valve and the proper dosage is controlled by an external sleeve. When insulin is being administered, a separate 40-unit or 80-unit insulin scale is used and the dosage indicator can be set for changes down to one unit of insulin if necessary . •