Pharmacologists, clinical tutors and junior doctors selected as study population, because
pharmacologists distribute knowledge of medicine, clinical tutors apply those knowledge and junior doctors have first-hand experience.
Starting salaries may be PS21,000-PS28,000 a year, with senior
pharmacologists potentially earning between PS35,000 and PS80,000.
In this article, the current members of the Council for the College of Clinical
Pharmacologists of SA outline the need for clinical
pharmacologists, their role in advancing public health, and the potential benefits to SA.
Brittain, a
pharmacologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her colleagues find that in a lab dish, three proteins--alpha-4-beta-1 integrin, CD4Z and thrombospondin--interact in a complex dance that results in red blood cells attaching to vessel walls.
But while hypericum preparations were found to be as effective as antidepressants in the new study, stronger evidence is still needed before hypericum should be substituted for drug therapy in the treatment of depression, according to Peter DeSmet, a clinical
pharmacologist with the Dutch Association for the Advancement of Pharmacy in the Hague, Netherlands.
But while hypericum preparations were found to be as effective as antidepressants in the new study, stronger evidence still is needed before hypericum should be substituted for drug therapy in the treatment of depression, according to Peter DeSmet, a clinical
pharmacologist with the Dutch Association for the Advancement of Pharmacy in The Hague, Netherlands.
Added attention from a
pharmacologist for people taking medication may have contributed to this effect, the scientists suggest.
This possibility--coupled with the identification of variant forms of COX-1--might explain why there are so many nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on the market, says
pharmacologist Timothy D.
