School of Pharmacy
When Pills are the Problem: The Movement to Deprescribe
Do you still need all the meds you're taking? Clinical professor Sean Jeffery recommends reviewing your medications with your physician every year.
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UConn Researchers Kill MRSA with Tailored Chemistry
UConn medicinal chemists have developed experimental antibiotics that kill the often deadly bacteria MRSA.
Eyeing Early Detection of Precursor to Blindness
UConn scientists are working with a biomarker to enable earlier detection of a condition that leads to age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the U.S.
New Website Connects Mental Health Patients and Pharmacists
A UConn faculty member led the recent effort to launch a website with a searchable directory of more than 850 mental health pharmacies.
Medicinal Chemistry Professor Amy Anderson Dies
Anderson was head of the pharmaceutical sciences department, a dedicated educator and mentor, and a talented researcher in the field of drug design.
Summer Concerts and Party Drug a Dangerous Mix
A UConn pharmacy expert discusses the dangerous side effects of an illicit drug known as 'bath salts.'
Alumnus Donates Vital Equipment to Pharmacy Students
Professionalism is one thing Jerry Koblin, a UConn pharmacy alumnus and current member of the School of Pharmacy Advisory Board, knows a good deal about. After graduating in 1960, Koblin ran his family’s pharmacy, aptly named Koblin’s, in Nyack, New York until his retirement in 2013. Beyond that, he has been a member and president of many New York pharmacists' groups, drug distributors, and boards of directors. Koblin’s commitment to professionalism was one reason he gave a professional stethoscope to each member of this year’s Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy Studies
UConn Professor Calls for Limiting Antibiotic Use in Farm Animals
A UConn professor discusses efforts by a national pharmacists group to curtail the use of antibiotics in healthy farm animals in light of growing antibiotic resistance.