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Establishment of the African Medicines Agency: Progress, challenges and regulatory readiness
(Springer Nature, 2021)
Insufcient access to quality, safe, efcacious and afordable medical products in Africa has posed a signifcant challenge to public health for decades. In part, this is attributed to weak or absent policies and regulatory ...
Access to chronic medicines: patients’ preferences for a last kilometre medicine delivery service in Cape Town, South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2021)
: Chronic patients are required to access their chronic medicines on a regular basis, often only to refill
their repeat prescriptions. Adherence to chronic medicines is challenging and has stimulated health care providers
to ...
A qualitative meta-synthesis of facilitators and barriers to tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in Nigeria
(Springer Nature, 2021)
: Despite progress in tuberculosis (TB) control globally, TB continues to be a leading cause of death
from infectious diseases, claiming 1.2 million lives in 2018; 214,000 of these deaths were due to drug resistant
strains. ...
Evaluating pharmacy students’ knowledge and skills in reproductive, maternal, new-born and child health care at a South African university
(Springer Nature, 2021)
Maternal and child mortality is a global concern and one of South Africa’s quadruple burdens of
disease. As easily accessible frontline healthcare workers, pharmacists play an important role in the continuum of
maternal ...
Computational applications in secondary metabolite discovery (caismd): An online workshop
(BMC, 2021)
We report the major conclusions of the online open-access workshop “Computational Applications in Secondary
Metabolite Discovery (CAiSMD)” that took place from 08 to 10 March 2021. Invited speakers from academia and
industry ...
Physicochemical stability of enriched phenolic fractions of cyclopia genistoides and ex vivo bi-directional permeability of major xanthones and benzophenones
(Georg Thieme Verlag, 2021)
Fractions of an ultrafiltered Cyclopia genistoides extract, respectively enriched in xanthones and benzophenones, were previously shown to inhibit mammalian α -glucosidase in vitro. The present study investigated ex vivo ...
Curdlan–chitosan electrospun fibers as potential scaffolds for bone regeneration
(MPDI, 2021)
Polysaccharides have received a lot of attention in biomedical research for their high potential as scaffolds owing to their unique biological properties. Fibrillar scaffolds made of chitosan demonstrated high promise in ...
Application of fundamental techniques for physicochemical characterizations to understand post-formulation performance of pharmaceutical nanocrystalline materials
(MPDI, 2021)
Nanocrystalline materials (NCM, i.e., crystalline nanoparticles) have become an important class of materials with great potential for applications ranging from drug delivery and electronics to optics. Drug nanocrystals ...
Service learning in pharmacy: Implementation of tuberculosisscreening by second-year pharmacy studentsin primary health care facilitiesin Cape Town, South Africa
(FIP, 2021)
The School of Pharmacy of the University of the Western Cape
implemented a service learning programme where second year students participated in
tuberculosis (TB) screening.To determine the views of students and nurses
about ...
Structural Insights and Docking Analysis of Adamantane-Linked 1,2,4-Triazole Derivatives as Potential 11 -HSD1 Inhibitors
(Molecules, 2021)
The solid-state structural analysis and docking studies of three adamantane-linked 1,2,4- triazole derivatives are presented. Crystal structure analyses revealed that compound 2 crystallizes in the triclinic P-1 space ...