Department of Pharmacy Practice

College of Pharmacy
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Pharmacy & Bennett Tackle the Flu


Missing a few days of work may not upset most, but two weeks full of fever, headaches, extreme tiredness, cough, sore throat, nasal congestion and body aches proves more upsetting for the 5 to 20 percent of the U.S. population infected with influenza yearly, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC).  This year, the Department of Pharmacy Practice teamed up with Chicago Bear Earl Bennett to reach out and educate the UIC and Chicago community about the importance of vaccinations.  Full Story.
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Research




James W. Shaw PhD, PharmD, MPH (Department of Pharmacy Administration/UIC), Simon Pickard PhD (Department of PharmacyPractice/UIC) and colleagues (Lin Zhan MS and Mark Oppe MSc) presented a poster entitled “Multinational Evaluation of Conditional Median Models of EQ-5D Health State Preferences” at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) that was awarded Best Policy Research Poster Award.  Story Continues