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Pray, Walter Steven was born on September 21, 1949 in Holdenville, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Walter Leroy Pray and Flossie (Withrow) Wynema.
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Follow the course of the battle to protect American consumers from unsafe and ineffective nonprescription pharmaceutical products! A History of Nonprescription Product Regulation explores the regulation of nonprescription products in the United States via an examination of the circumstances surrounding the passage of various laws. It untangles the process by which those bills became law, beginning with early federal regulations and moving through the laws that were passed in 1906 and 1938 and the amendments that came in 1951 and 1962. It relates important issues of the day (muckraking, sulfanilamide, thalidomide) to those laws by carefully describing their influence on pending legislation. In its coverage of the laws that govern nonprescription products, A History of Nonprescription Product Regulation makes extensive use of widely varied source material that gives the book a contemporary tone that is quite unique in texts of this kind. For instance, the reader wishing to more fully understand the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act will be treated to a view of that act drawn from the pages of The New York Times, the Congressional Record, and various journals that were published while the act was being debated. In A History of Nonprescription Product Regulation, you will find clearly written chapters covering: • how prescription medications differ from nonprescription products • early food and drug regulations established by the federal government • patent medicines • the Pure Food and Drug Law of 1906 • the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914 • the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 • the Kefauver-Harris Amendments of 1962 • Rx-to-OTC switching and the FDA's review of over-the-counter products • regulations relating to homeopathy and dietary supplements Well-referenced and richly complemented with dozens of photographs, this essential volume illuminates the struggle—on many fronts—to achieve a situation in which the American consumer can purchase safe and effective nonprescription products.
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This text clarifies the role of the pharmacist in counselling patients who wish to self-treat various medical conditions and provides the pharmacist with advice on performing effective triage.
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When it comes to helping customers make wiser and safer choices in their use of over-the-counter treatments, the pharmacist's best source of information is Nonprescription Product Therapeutics. This text emphasizes the pharmacist's role in triage--assessing the best nonprescription products for a client and knowing when medical conditions warrant a referral to another health professional. Organized by condition rather than by drug, the text is easy to consult, and complements a disease-based approach to therapeutics. Pharmacists will find useful information on ingredients, interactions, contraindications, and other essentials for helping customers choose appropriate nonprescription products. The Second Edition contains additional charts, drawings, illustrations, and tables. The book includes decision-making algorithms, case studies, patient counseling tips, and warnings on dangerous or life-threatening ingredients, actions, or situations. Another unique feature of this text is A Pharmacist's Journal--real-life reports from the front lines by an award-winning professor and researcher with over twenty years of experience in retail community pharmacy.
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Pray, Walter Steven was born on September 21, 1949 in Holdenville, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Walter Leroy Pray and Flossie (Withrow) Wynema.
Bachelor of Science, Southwestern State College, 1972. Master in Public Health, University Oklahoma, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Pharmacy, Purdue University, 1983.
Extern pharmacist Jones' Drug, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, 1970, Oertle's Pharmacy, Tulsa, 1971, intern pharmacist, 1972-1973. Staff pharmacist Ross Drug, Broken Arrow, 1973, Getman Drug #3, Tulsa, 1973, St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa, 1973-1974. Pharmacy resident, staff pharmacist St. Anthony Hospital, Oklahoma City, 1974-1975.
Professor nonprescription products and devices Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, since 1976. Consultant in private practice, Weatherford, Oklahoma, since 1988. Author monthly column Consult Your Pharmacist in journal United States Pharmacist, since 1988.
Member review committee North America Pharmacy Licensure Examination, 1988-2002.
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President Agape Sunday School Class United Methodist Church, Weatherford, 1976-1979, 99-2000, president Wesley Foundation Board Directors, 1987, 97-2000. Pharmacy director Agape Free Clinic, Weatherford, since 1999. Member National Pediculosis Association (science advisory board directors since 1990), American Association Colleges of Pharmacy (Teacher of Year 1995, 98, 99, Lyman award 1985).
Married Carole Lynn Grayson, December 20, 1975. Children: Joshua Jameson, Gabriel Elijah.