Impact of pharmacist-led interventions on medication-related problems among patients treated for cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized control trials.

Background: Medication-related problems (MRPs) continue to impose a voluminous health impact, particularly among patients on anti-cancer therapy, due to the nature and complexity of the care. Pharmacists have a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, effective, and rational use of medicines in this group of patients.

Objectives: To examine the impact of pharmacist-led interventions in resolving MRPs among patients treated for cancer.

Pharmacy professionals' knowledge, attitude and practice towards doping in sports: A Cross-sectional study in Ethiopia.

Background: Doping is appearing as a major problem in Ethiopia, a country decorated with medium and long-distance runners. To protect athletes from doping, pharmacists can be the first port of call for advising athletes on drug treatment. Hence, to fuel the anti-doping movement, it is crucial to explore the knowledge, attitude, and practice of community pharmacy professionals.

National Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training needs of pharmacists in Ethiopia.

Background: Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in pharmacy is a lifelong learning approach whereby individual pharmacists are responsible for updating and broadening their knowledge, skills, and attitudes. This is vital to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care services. However, there is a lack of available data revealing the CPD needs of Ethiopian pharmacists.

Wound Healing and Antioxidant Properties of 80% Methanol Leaf Extract of (Scrophulariaceae): An Ethiopian Medicinal Plant.

Wounds account for severe morbidity, socioeconomic distress, and mortality around the globe. For several years, various herbal products are used to expedite and augment the innate wound healing process. In Ethiopian folkloric medicine, .

Antidiarrheal and Antisecretory Effect of 80% Hydromethanolic Leaf Extract of Baker f. in Mice.

Introduction: In Ethiopia, different medicinal plants have been claimed and used to treat diarrheal diseases. However, these claimed effects for most medicinal plants have not been scientifically verified. One of such plants in Ethiopian folkloric medicine is which is usually consumed as a vegetable in southern Ethiopia.

Wound Healing Activity of 80% Methanol Leaf Extract of (L.f) Sond (Cucurbitaceae) in Mice.

Background: is one of the folklore plants of Ethiopia frequently used for external wound treatment in humans. Nevertheless, pharmacological investigations have not been performed to substantiate activity of the plant extract in wound healing. Hence, this study attempted to explore the activity of leaf extract of in wound healing using a mice model.

Indole: The After Next Scaffold of Antiplasmodial Agents?

Malaria remains a global public health problem due to the uphill fight against the causative parasites that are relentless in developing resistance. Indole-based antiplasmodial compounds are endowed with multiple modes of action, of which inhibition of hemozoin formation is the major mechanism of action reported for compounds such as cryptolepine, flinderoles, and isosungucine. Indole-based compounds exert their potent activity against chloroquine-resistant strains by inhibiting hemozoin formation in a mode of action different from that of chloroquine or through a novel mechanism of action.

Hospitalization and Predictors of Inpatient Mortality among HIV-Infected Patients in Jimma University Specialized Hospital, Jimma, Ethiopia: Prospective Observational Study.

Despite the number of patients enrolled in ART is increased, HIV/AIDS continues to constitute a significant proportion of medical admissions and risk of mortality in low- and middle-income countries. As one of these countries, the case in Ethiopia is not different. The aim of this study was thus to assess reasons for hospitalization, discharge outcomes, and predictors of inpatient mortality among people living with HIV (PLWH) in Jimma University Specialized Hospital (JUSH), Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia.

Anthelmintic Activity of Crude Extracts of and against .

Gastrointestinal nematodes (GINs) are the major limiting factor for the successfulness of livestock production throughout the world. Emergence of resistance strains as well as scarcity and high cost of the currently available drugs has led to the evaluation of other alternative helminth control options, mainly from plants. The current study is aimed at investigating the anthelmintic efficacy of crude methanolic extracts of two traditionally important medicinal plants, and , against using adult motility assay (AMA) and egg hatch inhibition assay (EHIA).

Emergency Contraceptives: Knowledge and Practice towards Its Use among Ethiopian Female College Graduating Students.

Introduction: Ethiopia has a high incidence of unwanted pregnancies and incomplete and unsafe abortions, particularly among adolescents. This can be avoided by using different contraceptive methods including emergency contraceptives (EC). This study aimed to assess the knowledge and practice of EC among female college graduating students in Harar, Eastern Ethiopia.