MCPHS Announces $20K Donation from Beverly-Based CutisPharma; FIRST(TM) Compounding Kits Will Teach Students Old Skill With New Technology.BOSTON -- Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences History Founded in 1823 by fourteen Boston pharmacists, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy is the second oldest and the largest college of pharmacy in the United States. Two years after its founding, the College published the First American Pharmaceutical Library Catalogue. today announced a $20,000 donation from Beverly, MA-based CutisPharma, Inc. The gift will provide the College with a set of the company's user-friendly compounding kits that will be used in the hands-on training of pharmacy students. "We are very grateful for this tremendous donation from CutisPharma," said Dennis Lyons, MCPHS MCPHS Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Vice President of Institutional Advancement. "The company is a national leader in helping streamline the medication preparation process, and as an institution we are constantly striving to keep our students on the cutting edge." The donation will be comprised of CutisPharma's FIRST(TM) line of product compounding kits for pharmacies-kits containing components that are already precisely measured by the same standards adhered to by major pharmaceutical companies. The kits allow pharmacists This is a list of notable pharmacists.
"With the new academic year upon us, this is a gift that will benefit students immediately," said Douglas Pisano, Dean of the School of Pharmacy-Boston and Associate Provost PROVOST. A title given to the chief of some corporations or societies. In France, this title was formerly given to some presiding judges. The word is derived from the Latin praepositus. for Pharmacy Education. "Right here in Boston, the pharmacists of tomorrow will now practice compounding using the most state-of-the-art technology available." Some facts about compounding: --A compounded drug is a medication made by a pharmacist pharmacist /phar·ma·cist/ (fahr´mah-sist) one who is licensed to prepare and sell or dispense drugs and compounds, and to make up prescriptions. phar·ma·cist n. or other healthcare provider in response to a valid prescription for an individual patient --About 30M prescriptions for custom-compounded drugs are filled in US pharmacies each year --About 1% of all prescribed prescriptions are compounded, and the U.S. market alone for compounding, at the consumer level, represents an estimated $1 billion annually ABOUT MCPHS - www.mcphs.edu Founded in 1823, The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, with campuses in Boston and Worcester The following companies have been known as Boston and Worcester, running between the towns of Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts:
Manchester is the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the largest city of northern New England, an area composed of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. , is home to the largest pharmacy program in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Today, in addition to its traditional programs in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, the college offers a growing list of health-related degree programs including nursing, physician assistant studies, radiologic sciences, health psychology, pre-medical and health studies, and dental hygiene dental hygiene n. The practice of keeping the mouth, teeth, and gums clean and healthy to prevent disease. Also called oral hygiene. . ABOUT CUTISPHARMA - www.cutispharma.com CutisPharma, Inc. based in Beverly, Massachusetts Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 39,862 at the 2000 census. A resort, residential and manufacturing community, Beverly includes Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing. , is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company focusing on developing and commercializing value-added proprietary drug products and technologies in the prescription compounding sector of the pharmaceutical industry. Product line and development efforts, initially are focused on providing an optimized, more efficient alternatives for the preparation of the nearly 8 million currently compounded prescriptions, by offering FIRST(TM) - Unit-of-Use Prescription Compounding Kits. Use of these Branded compounding kits will be beneficial to all triad participants, namely Physicians, Pharmacists, and Patients. A U.S. patent has been issued to the Company for these compounding kits. |
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