Assessing the Indicators of Good Pharmacy Practice in Community Pharmacies: A Cross-Sectional Study.

To evaluate the extent to which pharmacies in Hetauda Sub-metropolitan City, Nepal adhere to the recommended practices outlined in the good pharmacy practice guidelines formulated by International Pharmaceutical Federation and draft developed by Nepal Pharmacy Council. Good Pharmacy Practice evaluates the safety, effectiveness, availability, and accessibility of medicines, ensuring their correct usage which is essential component of community pharmacies. Data was collected by visiting community pharmacies throughout Hetauda sub-metropolitan city.

Implementing Reflective Writing at a Newly Established Health Science Academy of Nepal: Exploring a Novel Practice, Overcoming Obstacles and Recommendations.

Establishing new institutions for health professions provides the opportunity to implement innovative approaches catering to the current health needs and also allows to address the inadequacies of well-established institutions. Grabbing this opportunity, we initiated the implementation of reflective practices at Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences, a new provincial university in Nepal. Though literature shows that reflection is a helpful tool to reflect on choices, experiences, and failures and obtain knowledge for the students, the adoption of reflective writing in health professions education in Nepal is limited.

Screening of Antioxidant, Antibacterial, Anti-Adipogenic, and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Five Selected Medicinal Plants of Nepal.

Introduction: Herbal products have been widely used for the treatment of diseases throughout the ages. In this research, we investigated antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-adipogenic, and anti-inflammatory activities of methanolic extracts of five ethnomedicinally important plants; namely, , , , , and .

Methods: We investigated the DPPH free radical scavenging potential, sensitivity of selected bacterial strains towards the extracts using a disc diffusion assay, anti-inflammatory activity in RAW-264.

(Brum.) Merr. (Rutaceae): Bioactive Chemical Constituents and Pharmacological Activities.

(Burm). Merr. (family Rutaceae), commonly known as Pomelo, is an ethnomedicinally, pharmacologically, and phytochemically valued species.