Moving the Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative forward within a state affiliate.

Purpose: Efforts to advance the ASHP Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI) in the Michigan Society of Health-System Pharmacists (MSHP) are described.

Summary: After the Pharmacy Practice Model Summit in November 2010, the board of directors of MSHP began to strategize ways to help health-system pharmacists in Michigan achieve the vision and concepts envisioned by the PPMI. The ultimate goal was to develop a process for acting on recommendations developed by the PPMI to advance the practice of health-system pharmacy in Michigan.

Inpatient medication history verification by pharmacy students.

Purpose: The ability of pharmacy students to improve the accuracy of patients' medication histories was studied.

Methods: This prospective study was conducted between January and April 2007 at a 424-bed community teaching hospital. Pharmacy students were assigned one or two patients daily admitted to the inpatient internal medicine service and were required to perform a thorough medication history for each.

Reovirus-induced apoptosis requires mitochondrial release of Smac/DIABLO and involves reduction of cellular inhibitor of apoptosis protein levels.

Many viruses belonging to diverse viral families with differing structure and replication strategies induce apoptosis both in cultured cells in vitro and in tissues in vivo. Despite this fact, little is known about the specific cellular apoptotic pathways induced during viral infection. We have previously shown that reovirus-induced apoptosis of HEK cells is initiated by death receptor activation but requires augmentation by mitochondrial apoptotic pathways for its maximal expression.