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Rui Liu did a 2-week research visit to Stellenbosch University in May 2023, funded by Erasmus. During her visit, she held workshops with postgraduate students and faculty researchers at Desmond Tutu TB Centre (DTTC), an interdisciplinary research centre on Tuberculosis and HIV treatments. Subjects were about qualitative research methods and research ethics. She also presented her doctoral dissertation to the health economics research group at Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University. Additionally, she followed colleagues from DTTC to field visits in public hospitals and pharmacies in townships and discussed future research ideas. 

May 19, 2023

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The ‘Meds on line’ project visited the Royal Pharmaceutical Museum in London in April 2023.

Who wants to use the grease from a bear to prevent hair loss? And who wants to bleach their skin and get a porcelain lustre using arsenic? The remedies during the decades are many. The museum is part of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the professional membership body for pharmacists and pharmacy. The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was founded on 15 April 1841 by a group of leading chemists and druggists in London. The society’s mission is to put pharmacy at the forefront of healthcare and to become the world leader in the safe and effective use of medicines.

A plethora of alternative medicines and healing practices have been used as much in history as it is now. The museum is a goldmine for anyone who wants to take a look at the pharmaceutical sciences of the past and understand the developments of the present.

May 4, 2023

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An award-winning book by Olof Sundin and Jutta Haider

Olof Sundin has, together with Jutta Haider, been awarded “The Golden Magnifying Glass” school prize. The prize has been awarded since 2017 to individuals, initiatives or organisations that have made outstanding contributions to source criticism and critical thinking on the net. The prize is awarded by the Internet Foundation and Källkritikbyrån in connection with The day of source criticism, 13 March, every year.

“In their book Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy: The Crisis of Information, they show how evaluation of online sources needs to be constantly renegotiated as part of media and information literacy in a digital information society. By raising a number of different dilemmas, they provide valuable insights for a forward-looking digital source criticism and strengthened digital literacy.”

An Open Access version of the book is available here.

March 17, 2023

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Rui Liu nailed her doctoral dissertation on 3rd March at Campus Helsingborg. Her dissertation, Tinkered Care – Assembling Medicine Consumption in Grey Zones, looks at the provision and experience of health services in relation to medicine access in the Swedish context. On 24th March Rui will defend her disputation.

Rui and her supervisors. From left to Right: Prof. Susanne Lundin, Dr. Henrik Loodin, Rui Liu and Prof. Cecilia Fredriksson
March 6, 2023

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Cecilia Andersson key note speaker at a Swedish library conference

The conference is a a meeting point between researchers and professionals. Readmore about the conference (in Swedish) here: https://www.biblioteksforeningen.se/evenemang/motesplats-profession-forskning/. In her talk she discussed her thesis, Performing search: Search Engines and Mobile Devices in the Everyday Life of Young People. She also dicussed intial findings from the ongoing project of this blog, Wy do we choose the internet instead of the doctor next door.

November 15, 2022

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Article: Swedish community pharmacy employees’ knowledge and experience of substandard and falsified medical products


Substandard and falsified medical products are, according to the World Health Organization, a global threat to public health. To evaluate if community pharmacy employees can guide the public to safer medication purchases, their knowledge and experience about SF medical products was examined.
A digital questionnaire was distributed to the five dominating pharmacy companies in Sweden, representing 97% of the community pharmacies (1391/1433), giving the theoretical possibility of reaching 6200 employees. The response rate was 5% (228/4900). Of the respondents, 89% were pharmacists (203/228), 84% were women (191/228) and 43% were 35-49 years (98/228). The respondents worked in pharmacies of different size, located both in rural and urban areas. The definition of substandard and falsified medical products was known by 182 of the 228 respondents (80%) and the main source of knowledge was media(61%, 111/228). The common European logo for authorized online pharmacies was not recognized by 74% (169/228). For pharmacy employees to guide the public to safer medication purchases, knowledge about substandard and falsified medical products needs to be enhanced specially about legal international e-commerce.

Read the full paper here: https://academic.oup.com/ijpp/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ijpp/riac059/6645514

October 25, 2022

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Poster: High risk for fake medications online

Amelie Persson presents the poster High risk for fake medications online
How to guide to safe purchases the Nordic Congress of General Practice 2022 in Stavanger and at the National Research School in General Practice at Umeå University. The poster draws on the article Swedish community pharmacy employees’ knowledge and experience of substandard and falsified medical products: a cross-sectional descriptive survey, published in International Journal of Pharmacy Practice (https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpp/riac059).

October 7, 2022

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