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public health—theme of seminars
A continuing education program sponsored by the Hub Pharmaceutical Association, Hebbronville, Texas, in which the pharmacy extension service of the University of Texas participated, attracted a delegation of pharmacists from the Webb County Pharmaceutical Association, Laredo, and other neighboring areas. Part of a statewide movement to bring distinguished speakers before practicing pharmacists, the program furthers professional knowledge at a time when significant advances in therapeutics have occurred at a rapid pace. Jaime Delgado (far right), associate professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the university, was featured. His topic was "Psycho-Medicinal Products." With Delgado above are (left to right) Gilberto Uresti, president of the Hub Pharmaceutical Association; Roy Osterloh, vice president, and Jerry Hebert, secretary
George Wakerlin, MD, American Heart Association medical director, spoke to pharmacists at a recent seminar on modern pharmacy at Butler University college of pharmacy. The seminar was cosponsored by the heart association.
public health-theme of seminars for continuing Programs in Texas, New Jersey,
education California and Pennsylvania study several aspects of public health ranging from drug addiction to medicare. Featured speakers at the 15th annual pharmaceutical conference conducted recently by the Rutgers University college extension division and college of pharmacy at Newark included George F. Archambault, past president of the AMERICAN
PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIA-
Howard Bost, MD, U.S. Bureau of Health Insurance deputy director; Earl W. Kintner, 'Vashington NARD and NWDA counsel, and Henry Brill, MD, director of Pilgrim State Hospital, 'Vest Brentwood, New York. Archambault, speaking on pharmacy under medicare, saw three major areas of community pharmacists' services that would be expanded with medicare-dispensing prescriptions, providing a source of home health aid supplies and serving as consultant to small hospitals and nursing homes. Dr. Bost, discussing the Social Security Amendments of 1965, warned that the problem with medicare is "expanding our resources to meet our needs and to make the best possible use of the resources we have." Discussing prepaid prescription services, Kintner said that for such plans to be effective, they must be available to all on a reasonable price basis. CompliTION;
cating the organization of such plans is the "crazy quilt of state insurance laws." Dr. Brill, speakin~ on the pharmacist's role in prevention of drug dependency, noted that "the pharmacist at one time was chiefly involved with medical addicts and to this day their control is his principal problem." Drug addiction was explored at a University of California extension conference, June 11- 12 in Los Angeles. Cosponsored by Continuing Education in Health Sciences and the UCLA school of medicine, the program studied the effects of heroin, stimulants, barbiturates, marijuana, LSD and other hallucinogens. Co-chairmen for the conference were Sidney Cohen, MD, UCLA associate professor of medicine and chief of psychiatry services at Wadsworth Hospital, Los Angeles VA Center, and Keith S. Ditman, MD, UCLA research psychiatrist. Other speakers included Chauncey D. Leake, MD, University of California school of medicine, San Francisco; Jerome Jaffee, MD, Albert Einstein college of medicine, Yeshiva University, New York; and Dale C. Cameron, MD, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D. C. ; Ira Cissin, MD, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; and Ralph Weilerstein, FDA, San Francisco. Texas Southern University school of pharmacy and the Houston Pharma-
ceutical Association sponsored a seminar , May 19, on pharmacy and public health. Chairman of the seminar committee, Terry S. Vincent, MD, University of Houston college of pharmacy, discussed teaching of public health in pharmacy colleges. Topics included crime detection, water and air pollution, maternity nutritional problems and child health, skin diseases, and drug control. Speakers were Floyd E. McDonald, Houston Crime Laboratory chemist; Robert L. Douglas, Air Pollution Control Division, Harris County (Tex.); Eula Perry, MD, VA Hospital; L.G. Owens, MD, Baylor University department of dermatology, and Norman Foster, FDA chemist. Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science is rebroadcasting the third annual series of TV lectures for pharmacists on June 4 through July 9 and on July 30 through September 3. The series, developed by the college under a grant from Smith Kline and French Foundation, is being shown on Saturday mornings from 7-7: 30 on channel 6, WFIL-TV in Philadelphia. Covered are such subjects as relationship of drug dose, blood levels and therapeutic effect, viral diseases and their control, arthritis and drugs used in its control, epilepsy and drugs used in its control, anticoagulants in coronary artery disease, and selected new drugs having therapeutic promise. Vol. NS6, No.7, July 1966
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George Wakerlin, MD, American Heart Association medical director, spoke to pharmacists at a recent seminar on modern pharmacy at Butler University college of pharmacy. The seminar was cosponsored by the heart association.
public health-theme of seminars for continuing Programs in Texas, New Jersey,
education California and Pennsylvania study several aspects of public health ranging from drug addiction to medicare. Featured speakers at the 15th annual pharmaceutical conference conducted recently by the Rutgers University college extension division and college of pharmacy at Newark included George F. Archambault, past president of the AMERICAN
PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIA-
Howard Bost, MD, U.S. Bureau of Health Insurance deputy director; Earl W. Kintner, 'Vashington NARD and NWDA counsel, and Henry Brill, MD, director of Pilgrim State Hospital, 'Vest Brentwood, New York. Archambault, speaking on pharmacy under medicare, saw three major areas of community pharmacists' services that would be expanded with medicare-dispensing prescriptions, providing a source of home health aid supplies and serving as consultant to small hospitals and nursing homes. Dr. Bost, discussing the Social Security Amendments of 1965, warned that the problem with medicare is "expanding our resources to meet our needs and to make the best possible use of the resources we have." Discussing prepaid prescription services, Kintner said that for such plans to be effective, they must be available to all on a reasonable price basis. CompliTION;
cating the organization of such plans is the "crazy quilt of state insurance laws." Dr. Brill, speakin~ on the pharmacist's role in prevention of drug dependency, noted that "the pharmacist at one time was chiefly involved with medical addicts and to this day their control is his principal problem." Drug addiction was explored at a University of California extension conference, June 11- 12 in Los Angeles. Cosponsored by Continuing Education in Health Sciences and the UCLA school of medicine, the program studied the effects of heroin, stimulants, barbiturates, marijuana, LSD and other hallucinogens. Co-chairmen for the conference were Sidney Cohen, MD, UCLA associate professor of medicine and chief of psychiatry services at Wadsworth Hospital, Los Angeles VA Center, and Keith S. Ditman, MD, UCLA research psychiatrist. Other speakers included Chauncey D. Leake, MD, University of California school of medicine, San Francisco; Jerome Jaffee, MD, Albert Einstein college of medicine, Yeshiva University, New York; and Dale C. Cameron, MD, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D. C. ; Ira Cissin, MD, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; and Ralph Weilerstein, FDA, San Francisco. Texas Southern University school of pharmacy and the Houston Pharma-
ceutical Association sponsored a seminar , May 19, on pharmacy and public health. Chairman of the seminar committee, Terry S. Vincent, MD, University of Houston college of pharmacy, discussed teaching of public health in pharmacy colleges. Topics included crime detection, water and air pollution, maternity nutritional problems and child health, skin diseases, and drug control. Speakers were Floyd E. McDonald, Houston Crime Laboratory chemist; Robert L. Douglas, Air Pollution Control Division, Harris County (Tex.); Eula Perry, MD, VA Hospital; L.G. Owens, MD, Baylor University department of dermatology, and Norman Foster, FDA chemist. Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science is rebroadcasting the third annual series of TV lectures for pharmacists on June 4 through July 9 and on July 30 through September 3. The series, developed by the college under a grant from Smith Kline and French Foundation, is being shown on Saturday mornings from 7-7: 30 on channel 6, WFIL-TV in Philadelphia. Covered are such subjects as relationship of drug dose, blood levels and therapeutic effect, viral diseases and their control, arthritis and drugs used in its control, epilepsy and drugs used in its control, anticoagulants in coronary artery disease, and selected new drugs having therapeutic promise. Vol. NS6, No.7, July 1966
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