pharmaceutical Review (www.pharmarev.com). The “Executive Council” of Pakistan Pharmacist Federation is please to avail opportunity to update you about the successful completion of session of 2011-12 and achievement of the mainly defined goals mentioned at the links; www.pharmacistfed.pk; www.pharmarev.com; www.pharmafed.wordpress.com.

Now we need a fair and competent committee to conduct the electoral procedure for the session 2012-13. Thus; in exercise of the powers conferred by Sub-section-III; clause 11-36 of the constitution, the executive council of Pakistan Pharmacist Federation has appointed an “Election Committee” under the skilled headship of Dr. Tahir Farooq Akber, Arqam Pharmacy, Satellite Town, Sargodha, Pakistan. This procedure will start in 1^st week of October, 2011.

Therefore; the members of Pakistan Pharmacist Federation of all over the country are requested to cooperate, support and help the appointed “Election Committee” for successful rendezvous of new headship, session 2012-13 of this esteemed organization

Pharmaceutical Review (www.pharmarev.com). Cancer remains one of the most feared diseases on the planet — and cancer patients being treated by mainstream medicine are usually bombarded with radiation and subjected to toxic chemotherapy that destroys healthy cells and weakens the body while trying to kill tumors.

A growing body of research is revealing that many natural substances have cancer prevention and treatment potential, including Mediterranean type foods that fight prostate cancer and walnuts which contain breast cancer preventive phytochemicals. Now there’s evidence a cure for cancer may be all around us and is as common as dirt.In fact, it’s something in dirt.

Researcher Aleksandra Kubiak just presented the startling discovery at the Society for General Microbiology’s Autumn Conference currently underway at the University of York in the UK. She and other members of a research team from the University of Nottingham and the University of Maastricht have found that a strain of harmless bacteria that is widespread in soil is actually deadly — not to people but to cancerous tumors.

The researchers have developed a therapy using Clostridium sporogenes, a bacterium common in dirt. They found that when spores of the bacteria are injected into cancer patients, they only grow in solid tumors. Inside the cancerous growth, the bacteria produce a specific enzyme that activates a cancer drug. The results?Unlike current chemotherapy, the natural bacteria treatment causes only the cancer cells to be destroyed while healthy cells are left unharmed.
“Clostridia are an ancient group of bacteria that evolved on the planet before it had an oxygen-rich atmosphere and so they thrive in low oxygen conditions. When Clostridia spores are injected into a cancer patient, they will only grow in oxygen-depleted environments, i.e. the center of solid tumors. This is a totally natural phenomenon, which requires no fundamental alterations and is exquisitely specific,” head researcher Professor Nigel Minton said in a statement to the media. “We can exploit this specificity to kill tumor cells but leave healthy tissue unscathed.”
He added that the new discovery could lead to a simple and safe procedure for curing a wide range of solid tumors. “This therapy will kill all types of tumor cell. The treatment is superior to a surgical procedure, especially for patients at high risk or with difficult tumor locations,” Professor Minton said.

“We anticipate that the strain we have developed will be used in a clinical trial in 2013 led by Jan Theys and Philippe Lambin at the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands. A successful outcome could lead to its adoption as a frontline therapy for treating solid tumors.”

Learn more:

https://www.sgm.ac.uk/
https://www.naturalnews.com/033219_c…
https://www.naturalnews.com/033505_soil_bacteria_cancer_tumors.html#ixzz1X5c2cmRt

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Pharmaceutical Review (www.pharmarev.com). The provincial election of Pakistan Pharmacist Association (PPA) Baluchistan held on July 27, 2011. Two major groups appear to contest; “Pharmacist Forum” and “Professional Group”. “Pharmacist Forum” is a committed assemblage of comparatively more dynamic, progressive and competent pharmacists. They have made an alliance with “Progressive Group” at certain seats of the panel. The full panel of “Pharmacist Forum” win the election of PPA Baluchistan is as under;

President; Syed Sultlan Agha

Vice president; Jameel Khan Achakzai; Abdul  Qayum Shahwani; Faiz Asmat Ullah

General Secretary; Ghulam  Mustafa Shahwani

Joint Secretary; Naseer Baloch

Finance Secretary; Hayat Braich

Press secretary; Khuda Dad Baloch

While; the “Professional Group” existing stakeholder in Punjab, Sindh, Gilgit Bultistan, Islamabad areas and centre  is defeated at all mentioned positions and fail get even a single seat. That indicates a big change in current scenario of the pharmacy profession. Professional Group was winning all the seats of PPA (all the four provinces and centre) since last 27 years. They have maintained their hold by certain unethical and non-professional course of actions. They even did not arranged the PPA election within the time frame defined in the “article of organization” to just prolong and enjoy the privilege of leading this noble profession. Thus; they did not care about the professional issues and has focused on their own businesses, job promotions, foreign tours etc. The failure of “Professional Group” is evidenced by not implementing the Punjab drug rule 2007; not assuring the issuance of the “drugs sale license” to pharmacist only; not  designing, enforcing and approving the “pharmaceutical service structure” for public and private sector; not establishing the independent “pharmacy directorate” to assure the independent working; not properly enforcing the “salary structure” to assure the minimum starting wage of new graduates equivalent to 17th grade gazetted officer; not assuring the “new recruitments and appointments” of pharmacists in trauma centre, TB centers, operation theatres, TPN, drug information centers and Aseptic dispensing to assure the rational utilization of life saving drugs, armed forces, naval hospitals, combine military hospitals (CMH’s) in uniform, Railways, WAPDA, PTV, PIA etc on permanent and regular basis with all benefits; not assuring the pharmacist as an “important team member” of therapeutical committees, drug purchase committees and clinical pharmaceutical services departments to play as life saving professional.

Thus; now the pharmacist community is more vigilant and conscious; it is not possible to cheat them anymore. Especially; the executives of “Pharmacist Forum” Dr. Abdul Haleem Khan Chief Pharmacist Jinnah Hospital Lahore; Dr. Taha Nazir Ph.D. Associate Professor, Riphah Institurte of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Islamabad, Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Faisal Hospital Pharmacist, DHQ Gujrat, Dr. Tahir Farooq  Arqam Pharmacy, Old Satellite Town, Sargodha,  Malik Muhammad Irshad Hospital Pharmacist Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, Fiaz Ahmad Faizi Allama Iqbal Town,Lahore,Pakistan, Syed Sultan Muhammad  Hospital Pharmacist, BMC Hospital, Quetta, Baluchistan; Baluchistan Syed Asmatullah, Executive District Office (Health), Noshki, Baluchistan, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Saeed; Ph.D.  Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Dept. of Pharmacy, University of thePeshawar; Abdul Aleem Awan HazaraUniversity, Mansehra, KPK, Jumshaid Ahmad Director Marketing, Pharmevo Ltd., Karachi; Dr. Syed Muzzammil Masood Zaidi Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, University of Lahore- Islamabad Campus; Mr. Iradat Hussain Lecturer Margalla Institure of Health Sciences, Gulraiz, Ialamabad; Asaad Imran, Gillen Pharmacy, Wahdat Road, Lahore; Malik Sharif Awan, Diamond Trading Company, Gujranwala; Dr. Haroon Arshad University of Sargodha; Abdul Rub Mujahid, Muller & Phipps, Bahawalpure; Muhammad Bin Ibrahim, Muller & Phipps, Multan; Dr. M. Shoaib Zafar, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad; Malik Muhammad Waheed Noorani Institute of Paramedical Sciences, Jehlum; Hafiz Muhammad Abdullah Gulshen-e-Madina Colony, Bhakhar; Kaleem Ullah Niazi, Pharmaceutical Marketing, Mianwali; Imran Anwer Drug Inspector, Shiekhupura have shown the ambitions to change the current scenario of Pakistan Pharmacist Association in all over the Pakistan to uplift the profession and achieve the described goals.

Pharmaceutical Review (www.pharmarev.com). Syed Khalid Saeed Bukhari, President, Pakistan Pharmacist Association, has written a letter to Federal Secretary Health, C-Block, Pak Secretariat, Islamabad regarding the Notification Of The Pharmacy Act 1967 as under;

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Web Link; https://www.ppapak.org.pk/doc/6.Pharmacy%20Act%20letter-Sec.pdf