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Post: Senior Scientific Writer I

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Applications are invited on plain paper and walk in interview will be conducted for filling up the following post at Drug Warehouses to be setup at Districts Ambala, Karnal, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Rohtak, Gurgaon & Bhiwani under National Rural Health Mission, Haryana purely on contract basis and initially up to 31.03.2014 with details as mentioned below:

Post: Pharmacist

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To trace the history of Jadavpur University is to trace a part of India’s freedom movement, at least from the Swadeshi Movement onwards. It was 1905 -1906. Bengal stood divided. The times were feverish.
The hegemony of the British establishment had to be challenged. Education had to play a new role in this changed scenario. It had to become a new form of resistance through which the emergent nationalist spirit could be propagated. With this in mind the National Council of Education (NCE) came into being.

Post: Project Fellow

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Applications are invited on plain paper and walk in interview will be conducted for filling up the following post at Drug Warehouses to be setup at Districts Ambala, Karnal, Kaithal, Jind, Hisar, Rohtak, Gurgaon & Bhiwani under National Rural Health Mission, Haryana purely on contract basis and initially up to 31.03.2014 with details as mentioned below:

Post: Warehouse Manager- 1

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ABOUT AUTHORS:
Md. Yaqub Khan*, Poonam Gupta, Dr. Dipendu Goswami, Bipin Bihari, Vikas Kumar Verma
Saroj Institute of Technology & Management,
Ahimamau P.O. Arjunganj Sultanpur  Road,
Lucknow  -226002
*khanishaan16@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT
Purchase and use of OTC drugs without full knowledge is not only a waste of resources for all stakeholders but can be harmful for consumers. Creating awareness of rational drug use is only possible through continued public education with a broad vision of good health and wellbeing of the society. In developed economies, the four As of marketing has been addressed fairly well but in India, the accessibility and awareness is still on a lower side especially for allopathic OTC drugs. In India, the import, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs and cosmetics are regulated by the Drugs and Cosmetics Act (DCA) and its subordinate legislation, the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules (DCR).

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ABOUT AUTHORS:
Mahaveer Prasad Kabra*, Sanjay Singh Bhandari, Shakti Singh, Paresh Mohan.
Kota College of Pharmacy, SP-1,
RIICO Industrial Area, Ranpur,
Jhalawar road, Kota, Rajasthan, India – 324009
*sanskarkabra@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:
Surfactant plays an important role in various drug delivery. To formulate the compounds sparingly soluble in water the surfactants are typically employed to increase solubility. Herbal are materials which have a tendency to preferentially get absorbed at the interface between two phases. The low solubility in biological fluids displayed by about 50% of the drugs still remains the main limitation in oral, parenteral and transdermal administration. Among the strategies to overcome these drawbacks surfactant is the most effective alternative. This article review about the herbal surfactants, their types, limitation, structure and mechanism, and evaluation of herbal surfactant.

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