Pharmacy News

Ohio Northern University's American Pharmacist Association Academy of Student Pharmacists chapter won the National Patient Care award in Region 4 at the national conference in San Diego.

ONU won the Region 4 award for its campaign "American Pharmacists Association Heartburn Awareness Challenge 2007." Region 4 includes all colleges of pharmacy in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.

The Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy, working with the nursing program, has received a $26,000 grant from Improvita Health Products Inc. of Cleveland to perform a clinical study of their Fasprin® product.

ONU will conduct on-campus clinical research to determine how fast aspirin from Fasprin® enters into the bloodstream. Unlike traditional aspirins, Fasprin® dissolves in the mouth (not in the stomach), which may allow it to work quicker than other aspirin products on the market.

Three alumni of Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy will be honored with Distinguished Alumni Awards at a banquet in the McIntosh Center faculty and staff dining room on Tuesday, Sept. 4 at 5 p.m.

This marks the first year that Distinguished Alumni Awards are being presented by the ONU Raabe College of Pharmacy.

Tammy Stefanovic, BSPh '88, Robert Parsons, BSPh '71, and Frank Wickham, BSPh '60, are being recognized for their outstanding career accomplishments and their contributions to ONU.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded to Ohio Northern University's Raabe College of Pharmacy $247,500 to study the cellular mechanisms by which the popular club drug Ecstasy increases body temperatures.

Dr. Jon Sprague, professor of pharmacology and dean of the College of Pharmacy at ONU, is the principal investigator on the project. Dr. Sprague and co-investigator, Dr. Edward (Ted) Mills from the University of Texas, have been studying body temperature regulations for more than a decade.

Ohio Northern University is holding its annual Pharmacy Visitation Day for prospective students on Saturday, March 8. The program will begin in the Freed Center for Performing Arts with registration at 9 a.m.

Rachelle Younger, a sixth-year pharmacy student from Bloomington, Ill., was awarded a scholarship from the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) at their 108th Annual Convention and Trade Exposition in Las Vegas.

Younger was one of only 27 pharmacy students in the nation to receive this honor.

The NCPA, founded in 1898, represents the nation’s community pharmacists, including the owners of more than 24,000 pharmacies.

Many antibiotics and other powerful drugs that treat serious medical conditions are effective only in a narrow range of concentration in the body. Too little and the medication is ineffective. Too much and serious problems can arise. That is why many patients go through repeated blood tests or other invasive measures to test the level of therapeutic drugs in their blood and sometimes in their body’s tissues.

Ohio Northern University will kick off its Hakes-Pierstorf Family Pharmacy Education Center dedication festivities with guest speaker Tommy G. Thompson, former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary and former Wisconsin governor, in the ONU Fieldhouse at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 6. Following the speech, a dedication ceremony will be conducted at the pharmacy addition at 1:30 p.m.