January 2013 Pharmacist Board Exam Results - Pharmacists Exam Results

Those awaiting the results of the January 2013 Pharmacist Board Exam Results - Pharmacist Exam Results - Pharmacist Board Exam - Pharmacist Exam Results Licensure Examination for Pharmacist Board Exam Results - Pharmacist Exam Results - Pharmacist Board Exam Results held on January 12 , 13 2013 can check the availability of results on this website.

The Professional Regulation Commission is expected to release the list of passers of the January 2013 Pharmacist Board Exam - Pharmacist Exam Results - Pharmacist Board Exam - Pharmacist Exam Results conducted in the cities of Manila, Baguio and Cebu as well as the lists of top performing schools and performance of schools or topnotchers, a few days after the last day of exam.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced Tuesday that 641 out of 1,181 (54.28%) passed the Pharmacist Licensure Examination given in January 2013.

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January 2013 Pharmacist Board Exam Results - Pharmacist Exam Results

Roll of Successful Examinees in the
PHARMACIST LICENSURE EXAMINATION
Held on JANUARY 12 & 13, 2013
Released on JANUARY 15, 2013

Seq. No. N a m e
1 ABA, LOUIEGINETTE BEJARASCO
2 ABANADOR, ERICK DELOS SANTOS
3 ABANIO, PAMELA JOY HERNANDEZ
4 ABRIGO, ABIGAIL ABU
5 ACIBO, MICHELLE LYN NAQUIMEN
6 ADEL, KRISTINE MAE SOCORRO MOLLEJON
7 AGACETA, CRISTANCERVANTES
8 AGBULOS, MARY JOY NONO
9 AGDON, ANNE MARGARET SANDOVAL
10 AGNOTE, RIZZA PARULAN
11 AGUILA, ABEGAIL ANGLO
12 AGUILAR, KNOLL KRISTOFFER GATMAITAN
13 AGUILAR, MA NELIA AGA
14 AGUILLON, WELLAROSE PADASAS
15 AGUIRRE, MARY ANNE DE JESUS
16 AL KHRISI, RANYASANTOS
17 ALBERTO, DANIELLE ROBERT MANGILIT
18 ALCANTARA, NIKKOTEMPORADA
19 ALDAY, MARRY ANNPAJARILLO
20 ALDAY, PATRICK KEVIN ALAON
21 ALDERETE, SHEEN SOTTO
22 ALGABRE, MARY GRACE SOLANO
23 ALHAMBRA, ROBERTERIC LIZADA
24 ALIH, FHADZNURRAHMAN ABDULGANIH
25 ALING, MIKHAEL GARCIA
26 ALINOG, PRINCESSHANNAH RIMBOT
27 ALIÑO, ANTONETTEGRACE CALLOS
28 ALLER, ARTHUR ANDREW TUMANAN
29 ALLONG, AMERA JAYADI
30 ALONSO, JAYSON SALVALOZA
31 AMARGO, TESSA FAY MACALINTAL
32 AMBROCIO, ARIANEIGMA
33 AMUTAN, GEMMA GAGA-A
34 ANASAN, SHARON DUGAO
35 ANDAYA, MARK ANGEL AQUINO
36 ANDRADA, ERIKA TAM PHOEBE DEL ROSARIO
37 ANGELES, KEITH BRYAN VINCENT RENIEDO
38 ANIÑON, ARIANNE DIANE ALPINO
39 APE, KRISTINE MAY RIVERA
40 AQUE, VERMOND ALDEGUER
41 AQUINO, CRISELDAIGNACIO
42 AQUINO, MARICRISQUIJANO
43 AQUINO, MARIE RIGENE CAVAS
44 ARAGONES, CHARYLLE LUCILLE PANGANIBAN
45 ARARAO, DAISY JANE SINDA
46 ARCAIRA, BENJAMIN JR CALPITO
47 ARNAO, MA CRISTINA PAGUIRIGAN
48 AVENDAÑO, ARMANDO JR SAHAGUN
49 AYENG, MARK GEROME BARGO
50 AYO, JOYCE MAE VERONNE RACE
51 AYSON, JAMILLE ANN BORDON
52 AZUELA, LIBE HASEIN ALVAREZ
53 BABARAN, GLANIE JACINTO
54 BACALA, CZARINA DE SANTOS
55 BAGASANI, MICHAEL MARARAC
56 BAGUIDUDOL, MAUREEN BALLITOC
57 BALAJADIA, ROXANNE JOIL BUSTOS
58 BALANAY, ABIGAILVELASCO
59 BALANGAY, MIKOLEFERMIN
60 BALBUENA, JOIE ANGELAR SALCEDO
61 BALDOZA, MICHAELLA TISHA SURMIEDA
62 BALINTAG, GEOFRELYNE CASTILLO
63 BALIWAG, TANIKA MATIC
64 BALUBAL, CIAN SERANIAS
65 BANALO, RAYCELYNCAMARINES
66 BANANIA, JENNY MARMITO
67 BANDAHALA, KARMINA MADOH
68 BANIAGA, GRACELLA ASI-AS
69 BANTUAS, SHAHANISAUD
70 BANZUELA, MARI ANN FRANCES SARMIENTO
71 BAQUIR, MARY JEANNE JENNIFER BALMES
72 BARCELON, KATRINA JOYCE SANTIAGO
73 BARCELON, MISHIEL TAN
74 BARRAQUIO, CHAREE VILLA
75 BARRETE, MYCHEL PALAPAR
76 BARTLETT, JANICEBABE BAGANGAN
77 BASAMOT, NEMESIOSIPISIP
78 BASILIO, MARICRIS SIMBULAN
79 BATAN, RAE SONIAMONTEDERAMOS
80 BATERNA, SARAH PERSIS PAGAYON
81 BAUTISTA, KAREN JOYCE LAYCO
82 BAUTISTA, KRISTINA MARGARITA POLINTAN
83 BAY, DHAREN MARRA JAGUNOS
84 BAYENG, JONALYN MACARIO
85 BEDICO, BEVERLY JOY GOLEZ
86 BELARMINO, PATRICIA ANNE YBAÑEZ
87 BELEN, MICHELLE ACEBRON
88 BELGA, TIFFANY ROSE ESPADA
89 BELMONTE, GERMAINE ROSADO
90 BERMEJO, JAEL BAES
91 BILGERA, RODAN ARJAE AROLA
92 BITUIN, MARY JHAEZELLE DOMINGO
93 BOCBOC, KEVIN AGANON
94 BOLO, DAPHNE MARIE VALERA
95 BONDAD, JAPHET ZADINE GARCIA
96 BONPIN, ALLISON MAY LOCSIN
97 BOREROS, NEVIA SHEENA ANDOY
98 BRACAMONTE, JOY LO
99 BRILLANTES, ALMOND JOHN GUSTILO
100 BUENAVISTA, LADYROMINA OCAMPO
101 BULARON, LEONIZAABENDAN
102 BUNDA, RANEE JOYPALETE
103 BURGOS, RICA MARIE LIGERALDE
104 BUSTARDE, ROCHELLE DE GUZMAN
105 CABAEL, JELYNDA FRANCISCO
106 CABALO, KISAMARIE AUJERO
107 CABANATAN, MARIACHRISTINA PERALTA
108 CABANBAN, IONA ROSE AGBUYA
109 CABARLES, PEARL JOY CALIMOTAN
110 CABATAC, ERNESTINE ANGELA MORENA
111 CABIGAO, KIM MARINEL QUINTO
112 CABIGTING, GEMMAIBASCO
113 CABINIAN, EBBE ROXANNE CASTILLO
114 CABORNAY, EDDIELYN YARA
115 CABRERA, CHRISTINE REGODON
116 CABREROS, JENIFFER MAE BAGAIN
117 CACHILA, JUGILYNJAYAWON
118 CAGAMPAN, MARY JAIDE MARCELO
119 CAGNAYO, SONIA CAPISTRANO
120 CAIDIC, CHRISTINA TIOPES
121 CALANGIAN, LEA ANNE GAVIOLA
122 CALANSINGIN, PRINCE KARL ODICTA
123 CALDERON, ERIC III EUSEBIO
124 CALIB-OG, KARLETH JEAN SOLIS
125 CALILAN, TANI LEI CARIAGA
126 CALIZON, SHEILA MAE MANAOIS
127 CALPA, LOVILLE PAROGINOG
128 CALUAG, RICHMONDDEL CASTILLO
129 CALUMPANG, JOHANNA TORRES
130 CALUYA, APRIL KAYE GEMS CAYABYAB
131 CALVEZ, CELINE PAULA GONZALES
132 CAMACHO, DEBBIE TAMIN
133 CAMELLO, NILDA ALBARACIN
134 CAMPOS, PRINCESSERIKA ABUNIO
135 CAMPOSO, ANNIESTER RICALDE
136 CANIBAN, JALLIE TANALGO
137 CANLAS, JOHN DIXSON USI
138 CANOY, RAYNILDA ALFANTA
139 CAPAPAS, CLOENA AMPOLOQUIO
140 CAPENDIT, MARIZ BENSIG
141 CARATIQUIT, JASMINE JOY BUGAYONG
142 CARDONA, ZARLITACITA
143 CASCABEL, KENNETH DORIA
144 CASIO, KIRSTEN JOYCE VALLE
145 CASPE, MA JOAN QUIMINALES
146 CASTAÑEDA, CAMILLE ANNE PINEDA
147 CASTAÑOS, KYLE IRVINE ONG
148 CASTILLO, SHIELADELA CRUZ
149 CASTRO, HILBERT JOHN DIROY
150 CATAN, RODEL
151 CATAYAS, JUDELYNVITAL
152 CAUTIVERIO, KARISSA VINZON
153 CAYCO, AGNES MAYREYES
154 CAÑAL, RHEA ACDOG
155 CAÑETE, DAISY ARAPO
156 CEBRERO, PATRIZZIA MARIE RUDINAS
157 CENA, CECILE QUINAPONDAN
158 CENIZA, MA ROSARIO PONSECA
159 CENIZA, SYDNEY PAOLE ANNE GEONZON
160 CHAN, MICHAEL JAN LAMPREA
161 CHE, LOVELLA ROXAS
162 CHIONG, ESTHER ROSELLE LASAGA
163 CHUA, JOANNA MICHELLE ENCARNACION
164 CHUA, YHENE-YHENE ONG
165 CIELO, NERISSA VELASCO
166 CO, KEITH BRYAN AGANAN
167 CONCEPCION, CONEY ROSE RIVERA
168 CONCEPCION, MONICA CLARIZA BAUTISTA
169 CONCEPCION, NEILURETA
170 COO, ANGIE LOISENOGOLLOS
171 COO, ANN MARJORIE GO
172 CORDOVA, JENNIFER PORRAS
173 CORPUZ, JESTONIECORPUZ
174 CORPUZ, KATHRYN KENT FABI
175 CORRO, HARVEY WILSON DUMAS
176 CORTES, LEONILO CAMON
177 CORTES, SHEENA ALILIN
178 COSAS, CHARRYL JUNE GALOR
179 COTIANGCO, JOCELYN RODA
180 CRUZ, ALIZ QUINTO
181 CRUZ, ASELLA MARIE FELIZMENIO
182 CRUZ, JOSEFA ANNA VICTORIA VILLANUEVA
183 CRUZ, SHARA JANEALBERTO
184 CRUZ, SWEETHY PAL
185 CUA, KATE MARIE LIM
186 CUBERO, MAUREEN MAY
187 CUENCA, JANICE MACAYA
188 DACATIMBANG, DENISE ECARMA
189 DACUTAN, DYESEL JOY ESTORQUE
190 DAHILIG, JOANNA MARIE MACROHON
191 DAILEG, LESLIE MANRIQUE
192 DALAN, ARCHELLE BRUA
193 DALUDADO, JASMINGRACE ALCORAN
194 DAUD, NUR-SHAREEFFA HASSAN
195 DAYADAY, RIEZA LYN GLORIA
196 DE GUZMAN, CHARRY GRACE CALIGAN
197 DE JESUS, CHARLOTTE CHASER CORTES
198 DE JESUS, KIMBERLY ROSS SINGIAN
199 DE LA CRUZ, PRINCESS LUCKY BAUZA
200 DE LA VIÑA, ZAMANTHA BALANI
201 DE LEON, GERRICKJAMES MANLA
202 DE LEON, HEIDI COMPIPIS
203 DE LEON, JESSA MAE ROMERO
204 DE LEON, WILMARIE ABIGAIL GUNABE
205 DE LOS SANTOS, ARIADNE BURIGSAY
206 DE VERA, JENNIFER IGNACIO
207 DEBLOIS, MARIAN BUCANA
208 DECOY, SHIELA MAE UMAHAG
209 DEL MUNDO, ANNA LYN VILLAVERDE
210 DEL ROSARIO, REGINE PHILLINE SORIANO
211 DELA CERNA, ANGELI BAYON-ON
212 DELA CRUZ, KEMELYN JOY MANALASTAS
213 DELA CRUZ, KIT ANGELO REGAÑON
214 DELA CRUZ, MARGERY ROXANE GALE FLORES
215 DELA CRUZ, MARY CHRISTINE DOMINGO
216 DELA RAMA, MARY GRACE DELA CRUZ
217 DELIZO, MELISSA FLORES
218 DELUAO, KYRIE MARIE DEALLO
219 DEMAVIVAS, WINDEL JANE TORRES
220 DEMEGILLO, DANIEL NIÑO PONTILLAS
221 DENURA, MICHELLERIANO
222 DEQUITO, ANGELICA MAE INGUILLO
223 DESLATE, MELREENJANE TAGALA
224 DESLATE, NATALIEMARIE RODRIGO
225 DEUS, MICHELLE GANIBAN
226 DIANO, GILBERTO TURA
227 DILOY, FRANCES MARIE NAYRA
228 DOMALANTA, LIEZLGRACE AQUINO
229 DOMINGO, RUBY-ANN LINGBAOAN
230 DU, BIEN GENSON IAN AZUNAR
231 DUCUT, LADY RON MALLARI
232 DUETES, SHIRLYN CAGAS
233 DUMALI, MA YE LHEN GRACE BAES
234 DY YACO, NEZZA VINOYA
235 DYKIMCHING, EVANTE
236 EDOROT, JELAH MAE FERNANDEZ
237 EDULAN, JENNY RAZ
238 EGAGAMAO, AIZOVELLE TABOCLAON
239 EGAR, ROMMA NINNAH ORTEGA
240 ELECTONA, LEAH MAE LEGASPI
241 ELGUIRA, EUGENE JASON DIO
242 ENARIO, KNIKI HELOUISE LLORENTE
243 ENCENDENCIA, DAISY ANN TUMULAK
244 ENCILA, PAOLA MAGOS
245 ENRIQUEZ, ANDREAMARIE MANLUSOC
246 ENRIQUEZ, JOY ALMAR PADEN
247 ESCANLAR, JOSEPHUS AMBROSIUS RENATUS TALAMERA
248 ESCANLAR, RIKKA ANGELI TALAMERA
249 ESCOBAR, EPPIE VASQUEZ
250 ESCUDERO, CARMINA ANA AGPALZA
251 ESLOPOR, HAZEL ANN MAY CINCO
252 ESPADA, RUFFA JEHN FACIOLAN
253 ESPINOSA, MELLE MICAH GARCIA
254 ESPIRITU, KAREN FRAGATA
255 ESTEBAN, EVER CLYDE BARBASA
256 ESTRADA, MERYL KARISSA GONZALES
257 EUSTAQUIO, VALARIE HOPE SANTOS
258 EVANGELISTA, JOSEPH VELASCO
259 EVANOSO, JUBY MAE LORA
260 FACTORA, JONAH BONILLA
261 FAMILAR, MARIE ESTHEL RODELAS
262 FANO, JEANIE ROSE
263 FASOMINGO, FIONAGRACE MUYONG
264 FERNANDEZ, LOVELY JOY OCAMPO
265 FERNANDEZ, STEPHANIE RAE SY
266 FLORENOSOS, JERTIE MAY CAMPOAMOR
267 FLORES, ANASTACIO JONAS BENAVIDEZ
268 FLORES, STEPHEN STEVE
269 FUERZAS, MICHAELBRYAN LAÑA
270 GABILAGON, REYSARAPHAELLE GULLE
271 GABRIEL, ASSET GAMIZ
272 GACHO, VIOLY MARGALVE
273 GALLARDO, MARIA THERESE FERNANDEZ
274 GAMIAO, PRINCES DANE AGRAMON
275 GAMIT, FRENCH HYACINTH FLORES
276 GANZON, KARLA MARIE RAMIREZ
277 GARCIA, ROLANDA GALAT
278 GARCIA, ROSE ANNQUEZON
279 GARRIDO, ARLENE PALLER
280 GATDULA, AILA SEMIRA
281 GAVIETA, HYACINTH JOY CASTILLO
282 GELI, KARISSA MAE CALUCER
283 GERMATA, LORIELYN AQUINO
284 GIGANTE, MELGAR CATANIO
285 GILL, KIMBERLY MARIE JOSOL
286 GO, KARRAH MAMALE
287 GOLEZ, PRISTINE COLEEN MARIE MACALINO
288 GOROSPE, AUNA CLAIRE VENTURA
289 GOROSPE, JOHN PAULO PEÑAFIEL
290 GRANADA, EURE KAAMITHYST MULAWAN
291 GRAVIDEZ, JO DEANNE ANDRADA
292 GRIMES, MARY ROSE PAGDANGANAN
293 GUIEB, KHARL JHON RAPADAS
294 GUILLERMO, LYNETTE GARCIA
295 GUMARANG, ROALD SANTOS
296 GUTIERREZ, MAIKOYLLAN MACLAN
297 GUTIERREZ, VENUSFERRER
298 HABLO, MARLA KATE CAROLASAN
299 HADJI OMAR, NORAH TULIPAT
300 HALI, NADZMA JAI
301 HASAN SAGA, HAFSAH SAFIGA SOLAIMAN
302 HERMIDA, ANALYN BARDAJE
303 HERNANDEZ, FRANCIS ACE MONSANTO
304 HERNANDEZ, MA THERESA ANDREA LAVARIAS
305 HERNANDEZ, NEILLPATRICK BUGAY
306 HERRERO, HAZEL ANNE PACAÑA
307 HOCSON, GRACE BEATRICE CRUZADO
308 HUSIN, AISA LAGAY
309 IBARRA, MEG CAÑETE
310 IBE, KAREN LYNETTE MEJIA
311 IBO-CHUA, SERGE NG
312 IGNACIO, LOU ANGELINE CAPANANG
313 ILARDE, RICHEL AUDAL
314 ILINON, GLADYS ESTANGCO
315 ILUSTRISIMO, SHEILA ESGANA
316 IMPERIAL, ROBERTO ENRICO SANTIAGO
317 INOLINO, EMILYN AIRA ATUEL
318 INOT, MARK ENRICOSO
319 INTERONE, MIA KIMBERLY BORRES
320 INVIERNO, CHARLET TURQUIA
321 ISAD, MARSHATRA ABDURASID
322 JACUTINA, TERENCE JAY MOJARES
323 JAEN, ALYSSA RAEDOCEJO
324 JAMERO, MARYJANESORIA
325 JAMPAYAS, LIANNEMARIE JULIAN
326 JAPITANA, ALTHEAFATIMA AMPATUAN
327 JARDINERO, MARY JOIE REYES
328 JARODA, GRAILE ANN ANZURES
329 JAVIER, ZAMFRISCO SENIAGAN
330 JAYME, CARINA INEZ BUZON
331 JOPSON, LISSA ANGELICA CALINGASAN
332 JORDAN, JOHN MICHAEL PASURIAO
333 JORE, MAIRON DIANNE BRACHO
334 JULIO, MITUSHIELA BAGAUB
335 JUMALA, RAMCHANDSABDANI
336 JUMAO-AS, HANNAHMAE BARAWIDAN
337 JUNIA, GLENDA CORTEZ
338 JUNIO, JANE VIRAY
339 JUSTO, JENNIFER SANGIL
340 KAMALUDDIN, YASMIN DULAHIM
341 KHO, MANILYN ROLLON
342 KITONG, AGNETHA BARBARA FLORES
343 LABASANO, MA CECILIA RAYTOS
344 LABAY, JOY ANNE AZOGUE
345 LABOR, BEVERLEE LAGMAY
346 LABUGA, OSHIN HIBONE
347 LACAR, ZANDRALYNZARSUELA
348 LAGUERTA, SARAH GRACE PASALO
349 LALUSIS, MARIA JAYVEELYN MENDOZA
350 LAMBERTE, HANNAHSUICO
351 LAMBERTO, RAYCELBLANCO
352 LAMDAGAN, SHARONROSE DAQUER
353 LANGREO, NATHALIE GRACE CIUDADANO
354 LANTIN, PRINCESSANNE MANTO
355 LANUZA, FRANCESCA SEMILLANO
356 LARRAZABAL, ANTONETTE DONNA RAMIREZ
357 LAWAN, RACHEL JOYCE LIM
358 LAYUG, JO ANDREITAYAG
359 LEAL, MARILEN ASUNCION
360 LEE, JHOANA LIEZEL ODULIO
361 LEE LEONG, SIDNEY MARRIE UY
362 LEGASPINA, ANGELI JOANA PAJARON
363 LEONERO, LUNINGNING COLIS
364 LERUM, MARIA TERESA MAKINANO
365 LICUANAN, JENNIFER TANTAY
366 LIM, JESSIE SEFUENTES
367 LIMPASAN, NUR-FAIZA HAILIL
368 LINTAG, PATRIZ MIGA PLACER
369 LIWANAG, RAMLYN GRACE LAGGAO
370 LLAMELO, PHOEBE CRUZ
371 LLANES, JANICE ANJANETTE VALDEZ
372 LLENA, JERRALYN MORCILLA
373 LLOREN, MABEL NEGADO
374 LONTOK, MARY ROBELLE BILAD
375 LOPEZ, ELMA MARIE LISTANA
376 LOPEZ, FRANCIS LAWRENCE AGUILLON
377 LOPEZ, JOHN RALPH JAROMAY
378 LOPEZ, RHEA PEARL SAMPIL
379 LOPEZ, SARAH GARCIA
380 LUCBAN, ROXANNE LI
381 LUMAHANG, DONNAHMAUREEN URBANO
382 LUMBAO, PATRICIAELAINE BAGADIONG
383 LUMBO, JUNEDITH ECHINIQUE
384 LUNA, CHRISTIAN NICO SAMSON
385 LUNIO, LEWEY JOYGENOBATEN
386 LUNO, REYNAFEL MOSESAH DE LEON
387 LUSAY, JOSEPH PET FABILLA
388 MAAMBONG, JEROMEBOOC
389 MABAYAO, ELGIE BRANGGAN
390 MADAJE, IVY PILONGO
391 MADIAM, MICHAEL NEL RETONDA
392 MADRIAGA, AGNES SARMIENTO
393 MADRID, JOHN CARLO LABOR
394 MAGALONA, RAFAELITO ROZUL
395 MAGO, FLOYD BALON
396 MAGSALIN, KRIZHAMARIE CONSTANTINO
397 MAHINAY, DESTEENABEGAIL FUENTES
398 MAINAR, MARILYN VERANO
399 MALAWI, ALIA PUNDOGAR
400 MALAYAO, JOANA MAY DEL MONTE
401 MALLARI, JOHANNABONIFACIO
402 MANALO, TRESHA ANNE CULAS
403 MANGILIMAN, ROSEANNE CUNANAN
404 MANGUBAT, MARY JESTERWIN DELA RAMA
405 MANINGAS, EUNICEANNE SANTOS
406 MANIQUIS, FRITZ PHILIP MONTOYA
407 MANLUYANG, RUEL JR SAEL
408 MANZANARES, ELIZABETH ARDEN GRAVADOR
409 MANZANARES, JASMIN QUINTERO
410 MAPAS, JOSE III DE PAZ
411 MARAMBA, JUPITERCOCHING
412 MARAÑON, BHENJIENETTE SUE MASAMAYOR
413 MARKIN, AL-FADZRIE JALALUDDIN
414 MARZOÑA, PRINCESS MAE VILLANUEVA
415 MASONG, TEDINA BONGABONG
416 MATO, KAE MAIEZEBUSTAMANTE
417 MAUPOY, SARAH JANE ARANJUEZ
418 MAÑOSA, JOSE MARLO BATINGANA
419 MEDIANERO, RHEA PAUCHANO
420 MEDINA, RACHEL SITCHON
421 MERAÑA, JANDEL MARC ACORDA
422 MINA, VICTOR JOHN LUMIBAO
423 MIRANDA, ALTIFANIE FERRER
424 MIRANDA, RAFAEL FRANCISCO PINEDA
425 MOJICA, APPLE GRACE ORCASITAS
426 MOJICA, JOANA MARIE LUNARIA
427 MONTAS, HANAH AGUIRRE
428 MONTAÑO, GAUDIOSA JUMARAN
429 MONTAÑO, JOANNE KATE NOTADA
430 MONTEJO, J-LEY COROZA
431 MORADOS, SYBIL FE MARIE AGAN
432 MOSCAYA, ALEXANDRA MOLETA
433 MUNAR, ROWENA CAGAT
434 MUNIB, SHAYMAH JALMAANI
435 MUÑOZ, ANA MARIEOBEJERO
436 NAQUITQUITAN, JOEANN LAGAT
437 NARCISO, ELYNOR PILAPIL
438 NARSOLES, KRISTINE JOY PADUA
439 NATINGA, CLAIRE MANUGAS
440 NAVARETTE, HAZELJOY KALUGDAN
441 NAVARRO, SANTANINA CRUZ
442 NAYON, MARIANELECLATA
443 NEGRANZA, MA CATALINA ANGELA DEXIMO
444 NEMENZO, JOSEPHINE LEONES
445 NG, KAREN JOY TAN
446 NIASCA, KAREN HOPE GONZALES
447 NOGRADO, JANZEN KATE GUERRERO
448 NUFABLE, LEA MARCHELLE NACANAYNAY
449 NUFUAR, JERRICO LUMOGDANG
450 NUÑEZ, MIRIAM NICA GRACE TARONGA
451 OAFER, ELLAINE GALVEZ
452 OBEL, DARWIN LOPEZ
453 OBIAL, DIEZA QUION
454 OBLEA, ROBIN PASCUAL
455 OCHEA, ROSANIE JOY PAÑA
456 OLASIMAN, PRUDALEE AVELINE DALES
457 OLORVIDA, DIVINEGRACE DAYA
458 ONDE, BLANCH KIMBERLY ROJAS
459 ONDOY, CHERRY PIE ALONZO
460 ONG, KRIS NIÑA REBECCA BARBUSA
461 ONG, RACHELLE ZAYAT
462 ORO, JENNIFER HONRADA
463 OSABEL, TIFFANY GRACE SEDILLO
464 OSUM, JEZALINE DELANTAR
465 PACIA, MARILOU YAMBAO
466 PADERNAL, KAREN MAE BONJOC
467 PADILLO, APRIL VALERIE AMORA
468 PADUA, GUILLEN MARI NUNAG
469 PAGOBO, MARSON SUNGAHID
470 PAHIGON, ANABEL LAYAGON
471 PAJARILLO, WILLIAM CARLO ECALNIR
472 PAJARITO, ROSHELWONG
473 PALA-OG, EDEN ROSE GAD-OAN
474 PALACA, CLEO PELOS
475 PALIZA, LORDELYNHAYUDINI
476 PALOMARES, MA STEFFI JOICE QUIJANO
477 PANES, HAZEL MAETRAVINA
478 PANGANIBAN, MELANIE TRISTE
479 PANTIN, CATHERINE MAICO
480 PAQUERA, HAZEL SURINGA
481 PARADO, KHRYSTYNE ANNJILLA TY
482 PARAS, JAYZIE NATALARAY
483 PAREÑO, RIZA AMAMANGPANG
484 PASCUA, REILANI BOTEA
485 PASICOLAN, FRANCIS JOHN FONTANILLA
486 PASTORIL, MARIA FEIBE MANIGO
487 PATANA, CATHERINE TAGAYTAY
488 PATEÑA, JESSICA BATERNA
489 PATRICIO, SHERWIN EVE ROBLES
490 PEDAZO, SUBISHI MARTIN
491 PELIN, MERY GRACE SUGANOB
492 PELONGCO, REY POLIDARIO
493 PERINO, DANIEL SUAN
494 PERIODICO, JENNAMARIEL DELA CRUZ
495 PERMISON, RACHELLE MANAOIS
496 PEROZ, ELMARIE BIONA
497 PESTAÑO, ESTHER COSTALES
498 PEÑANUEVA, CHRISTIAN SALAZAR
499 PEÑARANDA, CARLSON VINCENT ESPIRITU
500 PILAPIL, JOSIE ROSE PARDILLO
501 PINLAC, JENNY PAMPUAN
502 PORAL, MYLYN LAGAÑA
503 PORRAS, MAY PALACIOS
504 POSADA, JAMIE RAMOS
505 PRADO, JOANNE KAYE SIDDAYAO
506 PRIETO, JENICA MARIE SABIO
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Over-the-counter drug makers start campaign to educate potential meth 'smurfers' about consequences of their actions

By Al Cross
Kentucky Health News

The lobby for makers of over-the-counter drugs, which has fought laws to tighten controls on sale of cold medicine that is used to make methamphetamine, is starting a public-education campaign to discourage evasion of the system that tracks purchases of pseudoephedrine. The targeted states are Kentucky and Alabama, which could be key to preventing passage of laws like the one in Mississippi, which requires a prescription for pseudoephedrine. UPDATE, 4/19/13: Missouri has been added.

The Consumer Products Healthcare Association rolled out the campaign in Alabama last month. It joined with the Kentucky Pharmacists Association and the Kentucky Retail Federation yesterday to announce the program in Kentucky, and won the blessing of its primary adversary in the state's legislative battle, Senate Republican Leader Robert Stivers of Manchester. Also on hand at Wheeler's Pharmacy in Lexington was Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear, who had stayed out of the fight until he signed the bill.

Stivers, who is in line to become Senate president, was asked if the drug makers' move signaled a truce in the battle. He indicated that he would wait to see the impact of this year's law, which reduced the amount of pseudoephedrine that can be bought during one a month, before trying to tighten it. "Let's look at the history and see what happens," he said. Earlier, he said: "I appreciate the fact that they're coming here in a very conciliatory way, a very open way, to say we all know there is a problem."

Beshear noted that fewer meth labs have been found in Kentucky this year, but said the success of the law depends on educating the public: "As laws are passed, criminals adapt and find new ways of getting around them."

Preventing that is the goal of CHPA's "Anti-Smurfing Campaign," named for the practice of meth makers using others, "smurfs," to buy pseudoephedrine for them. Beshear noted that the new law makes smurfing a felony, and said the posters are "designed to make smurfers think twice" and "think of the moral and criminal consequences of their actions." He told cn|2 Politics, "I think will be a good deterrent in this situation."

CHPA's director of state government affairs, Carlos Gutiérrez, said the posters were tested in 2011 with focus groups of Kentuckians and strike a balance of educating potential smurfers without alarming law-abiding buyers of pseudoephedrine.

In its efforts to kill Stivers' prescription bill during the 2012 legislative session, CHPA spent more than any other lobbying group has ever reported spending on a legislative session, and that did not include hundreds of thousands of dollars it spent on radio commercials urging listeners to lobby legislators about the bill. Lobbies in Kentucky do not have to report what they spend on such indirect lobbying. Guiterrez was asked if CHPA would do that, and he said he would look into it.

Pharmacy student takes time to point out the "Top 10 things you didn't know your pharmacist could do for you"

Imagine yourself hip deep in pharmacy school. You are sweating bullets over classes in pharmokinetics, chemotherapy and biostats. What, ho! You see the calendar reads October and you realize it's American Pharmacists Month and you graduate in 2014 from the University of Kentucky's College of Pharmacy and you want people to know you are acquiring mad skills. What to do? Write a primer about how much pharmacists can do for a community. And then put that primer -- via guest column -- in the Kentucky Kernel, the school's (sort-of) daily newspaper, where people who are consumers of good data like this will gobble it and put it to good use. Student Zachary Noel's list of "the top 10 things you didn't know your pharmacist could do for you" is worth repeating because Noel wants to do more than fill prescriptions, he wants to be a trustworthy health-care partner, something a lot of Kentucky communities could use.

Here's Noel's list of what pharmacists can do:
1) Immunize. Kentucky's pharmacists can provide flu shots and vaccinations, even for the human papilloma virus.
2) Economize. Just ask if you find yourself paying too much for your meds, there might be something your pharmacist can do.
3) Educate. Pharmacist are highly educated health-care providers who are often under utilized and more accessible than traditional sources. Don't feel you have to limit those questions to medication questions.
4) Stand guard. Think of pharmacists as a super-filter and your last, best chance to check that a medication is right for you.
5) Counsel. Vitamins, herbals, over-the-counter meds baffling? The evidence-based and experience-tested pharmacist will have some advice.
6) Prescribe. Yes, some pharmacists, writes Noel, "can enter agreements with various providers allowing them to prescribe or alter medication regimens, such as within the Veteran's Affairs hospital system."
7) Practice in interesting places. Like ERs, ORs, with vets.
8) Complete a residency. Pharmacists can opt for more schooling so they can specialize.
9) Medication therapy management. This means that pharmacists can review all your meds for interactions and make recommendations.
10) Compound. This is where they make stuff not already available. Where they create eye drops or topical ointments specifically for your use as directed by your doctor.
(Read more)

Pikeville newspaper spotlights local doctors and pharmacists charged in prescription pain-pill epidemic, forecasts more action

The Appalachian News-Express, the thrice-weekly newspaper in Pikeville, has turned the spotlight on Pike County physicians and pharmacists who are aiding and abetting the abuse of prescription painkillers. We have to wonder if more reporting like this from local news media wouldn't help fight the problem, which has become epidemic in Kentucky, especially in the east.

"Prescription drug abuse has dominated news headlines across the state over the last several weeks and new cases are leading officials to believe that more and more cases will be filed against physicians in and around Eastern Kentucky," the 2,200-word story begins. "Officials on both the state and federal level have been busy over the last year in taking action against a number of medical professionals, both in and around Pike County."

The full story by Chris Anderson is available only to subscribers, but is available to members of the Kentucky Press Association who subscribe to its Kentucky Press News Service.

Meds-for-meth bill drew record lobbying expenses, not even including radio and newspaper ad campaigns

Makers of over-the-counter drugs spent more than any lobbying interest ever had during a single Kentucky legislative session in their effort to defeat a bill requiring prescriptions for the key ingredient in methamphetamine, Bill Estep reports for the Lexington Herald-Leader.

"The Consumer Healthcare Products Association spent $457,053 on lobbying activities in the first three months of this year's legislative session, according to reports filed with the state Legislative Ethics Commission," Estep writes. "The group's lobbying effort was so dominant that it spent more than the next five groups combined in that period, January through March, according to spending reports."

And the figure doesn't even included hundreds of thousands of dollars that the trade group spent on radio and newspaper campaigns, because the lobby-reporting requirements do not apply to messages aimed only at the general public. The group did report spending on "a phone-bank operation to put people in contact with legislators to voice concerns about legislation to require a prescription for medicine containing pseudoephedrine, which is now available over the counter," Estep writes.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/04/30/2170495/makers-of-cold-medicines-set-new.html#storylink=cpy

The efforts, dating back to 2010, were partly successful. The legislature passed a bill "that will require a doctor's prescription for pseudoephedrine, but only after someone has bought 24 grams of the medicine a year," Estep notes. "A 48-count box of the generic medicine with 30-milligram pills contains 1.44 grams of pseudoephedrine. The bill excludes limits on gel caps and liquid pseudoephedrine." (Read more)

The lobbying effort wasn't only about Kentucky. The makers of Sudafed and other pseudoephedrine preparations are trying to stave off similar efforts in other states, and viewed Kentucky as a sort of firewall after seeing prescription-only laws pass in Oregon and Mississippi.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/04/30/2170495/makers-of-cold-medicines-set-new.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/04/30/2170495/makers-of-cold-medicines-set-new.html#storylink=cpy

Campbellsville pharmacists have mixed views about meds-for-meth bill; a good example of localizing a statewide issue

Pharmacists have mixed opinions about a bill that would require a prescription to purchase pseudoephedrine after a monthly or yearly limit has been reached, reports Calen McKinney for the Central Kentucky News Journal in Campbellsville. (Photo by McKinney)

The drug is the key ingredient used to make methamphetamine. Last week the Senate approved a bill that would limit non-prescription individuals' purchases to 7.2 grams per month and 24 grams per year.

Tresa Phillips at Nation's Medicines in Campbellsville told McKinney she feels the system in place now — an instant computer tracking system called MethCheck — is working. "I'm not sure that a new law is going to make a big difference," she said, adding that a person who is buying the drug already has to show state-issued identification.

However, Jay Eastridge at Eastridge-Phelps Pharmacy applauded the move. "It sort of restricts pseudoephedrine getting into the wrong hands," he said. "I wholeheartedly support the bill." Eastridge said pharmacists have become "gatekeepers" in the face of the meth epidemic and "it's just painful to watch" people coming in "from one drug store to the next seeing what they can get."

Ed Baise of the Medicine Centre agreed that pharmacists have "become the police" when it comes to limiting pseudoephedrine. But he said the drug should be put in a class of its own and pharmacists should be responsible for controlling purchases. Baise pointed out allergy sufferers could be inconvenienced by the bill. "This may help some," he said, "but it's not gonna solve the problem." (Read more)

Legislators hear from new managed-care firms; lawmaker rates their performance with a show of hands from pharmacists

Kentucky Health News

The three companies recently hired to manage Kentucky's Medicaid program outside the Louisville region defended themselves yesterday against complaints that they are squeezing independent pharmacies to the breaking point. One of the three firms, Kentucky Spirit, fared better in a hearing held by a House-Senate committee before a crowd that included many pharmacists.

When Sen. Vernie McGaha, R-Russell Springs, "asked for a show of hands from pharmacists in the audience to learn which of the three pharmacy-benefits companies they think underpay on generic drugs, nearly everyone raised their hands for Medco Health Solutions, which is Coventry [Cares]'s partner, and Catalyst Rx, which is WellCare [of Kentucky]'s. No one seemed to object to US Script, which is Kentucky Spirit's partner," reports John Cheves of the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Kentucky Spirit is the only firm that continues to pay pharmacists a dispensing fee of $4.50 to $5 per prescription, the rate that had been paid by the state. WellCare pays $3, and CoventryCares $1 to $1.50, the pharmacists told Deborah Yetter of The Courier-Journal. "Pharmacists have told lawmakers at previous hearings that pharmacy-benefits companies sometimes pay less for generic drugs than it costs pharmacies to acquire them," Cheves notes.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/13/2067444/medicaid-managed-care-companies.html#storylink=cpy

Rep. John Will Stacy, D-West Liberty, left, whose business interests include co-ownership of at least two pharmacies, got into it with G. William Strein, Medco's vice president for provider relations. "Stacy cut off Strein several times while he was attempting to answer," Cheves reports.

“Why is it fair that you can reimburse us below costs?” Stacy asked Strein, who "disputed Stacy’s assertion and said managed care attempts to strike a balance between its estimated cost of the drug and the costs of the pharmacy to buy and dispense it," Yetter reports. "But that claim was disputed by some of the roughly 30 pharmacists at the hearing who operate independent drugstores. Though the hearing ended before they got a chance to testify, several said afterward that they intended to keep making their case before lawmakers."

Jason Wallace, owner of Grant County Drugs, told Yetter, “It’s a real burden for Kentucky pharmacists. That’s why I’m here.” All the companies told members of the Joint Program Review and Investigations Subcommittee that they are committed to resolving the problems.

"Much of Monday’s testimony was devoted to the complex pricing formula known as the maximum allowable cost, or MAC, that managed care companies consider proprietary," Yetter writes. "Under the Medicaid plan before managed care, the formula was provided to pharmacists, who said they knew what they would be paid. Now, they said, they don’t find out what a company will pay for a specific drug until they file claims. And too often, they say, it’s less than they paid to buy the drug.

“How would you like to go to a gas station and fill your car up with gas and then be told what the charge is?” Breckinridge County pharmacist Jonathan Van Lahr asked after the hearing. (Read more)

Kentucky Health News is a service of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, based in the School of Journalism and Telecommunications at the University of Kentucky, with support from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky.

Independent pharmacists say managed care costs them money

Because two of the three new Medicaid managed-care companies have slashed the dispensing fee they will pay them, independent pharmacists are in danger of going out of business all over the state, pharmacists told the interim joint Health and Welfare Committee yesterday.

But one managed-care firm said that's the cost of saving money for the taxpayers, the reason the state implemented managed care statewide. "We recognize ... there's a big change here for everyone," said Barb Witte, CEO of CoventryCares. "All health care providers are going to have to tighten their belts."

Under the traditional Medicaid system, "pharmacists were paid a 'dispensing fee' per prescription of $4.50 to $5 plus reimbursement for their actual cost of the drug based on an industry formula called the 'maximum allowable cost,'" reports Deborah Yetter of The Courier-Journal.

But the dispensing fee of CoventryCares is only $1 to $1.50. WellCare increased its fee to $3 from $1.50, but cut reimbursement for cost, making the increase only worth about 80 cents. Kentucky Spirit is still paying $4.50 to $5.

Because the maximum allowable cost fluctuates on a monthly basis, pharmacists don't know their return until they file a claim. Often, "pharmacists find they are being paid less than it cost them to buy the drug from a wholesaler," Yetter reports.

"How long will I be able to stay in business losing money?" asked Mayfield pharmacist Sam Willett. "Not very long."

Rep. Tom Burch, D-Louisville, told the MCOs and pharmacists to come to an agreement. "There must be a way to work this out," he said. (Read more)

As meds-for-meth bill languishes, some seek compromise, but bill's sponsor says proposals would render it ineffective

By Al Cross and Tara Kaprowy
Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues

As the bill to require prescriptions for three widely used decongestants remains short of votes to pass the Senate, there is talk of a compromise measure to thwart the use of the medicines for making methamphetamine. But the bill's sponsor says he is not open to the compromises he's heard.

"We want to go with something that works," said Sen. Tom Jensen, R-London. "What has worked is what they've done in Oregon and Mississippi. What they have done is make a controlled substance out of pseudoephedrine, ephedrine and phenylpropanolamine," and greatly reduced the number of meth labs.

Lobbyists for drug manufacturers are circulating alternative proposals, such as applying the prescription rule only to the estimated 5,500 people convicted of a drug-related crime. Another industry proposal would cut the annual non-prescription purchase limit by more than half, from 108 grams per year to 50.

Jensen dismissed those proposals, saying they would do nothing to curtail "smurfing," meth makers' use of people who are paid to buy ingredients. "Some of them are homeless, some of them are college kids, some of them come from poor backgrounds," Jensen said of the buyers. "They've got fake IDs, they've got GPS systems showing all the pharmacies in the area, and they'll hit them very quickly." He added, "Even trying to limit (per-month consumption) has created a whole other problem. We have a whole lot of people who are getting involved in criminal activity who probably don't even know it."

The current monitoring system keeps the decongestants behind the counter and requires buyers to register. Under federal law, individuals may not buy more than 9 grams of pseudoephedrine in a 30-day period.

Last week on the Jack Pattie Show on Lexington's WVLK-AM, Louisville drug officer Stanley Salyards said he would accept a bill that would require prescriptions only for pills containing the three decongestants, since making meth from gelcaps and liquid preparations is very difficult. Two other police officers on the program indicated agreement.

Jensen rejected that idea today, saying his Senate Bill 45 would apply to only 15 products, and "All the other cold and flu medicines are still out there."

A Senate committee approved the bill on a 6-4 bipartsan vote last week, but the full Senate has passed over it for more than a week, and Jensen acknowledged in today's interview that it lacks the votes to pass.

He said manufacturers of the 15 cold remedies "have spent a tremendous amount of money opposing it and getting a lot of misinformation out there ... We, unfortunately, don't have the funds to get out and make full-page ads and radio statements and TV commercials that say 'That's just not true.'" For example, the ads say the registration and tracking system is effective, but the law-enforcement officers on the radio show last week said it is not.

Opponents of the bill say having to get prescriptions would increase costs for cold and allergy sufferers, and meth makers would simply cross state lines to get their supplies. The opponents are backed not only by heavy spending, but by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber has suggested "banning all online retail sales, distribution and shipment of products containing ephedrine and/or pseudoephedrine from non-Kentucky licensed pharmacies to individuals in Kentucky."

Rep. David Floyd, R-Bardstown, filed a bill last week to make the pill forms of the three substances “legend” drugs, those that are "available through the determination of a pharmacist or by prescription," reports The Kentucky Standard of Bardstown. "It would not be classified as a controlled substance." The bill would also prohibit purchases of any of the three medicines by anyone under 18 without a prescription.

“While many of us are sympathetic to those who have been adversely affected by the meth trade in Kentucky, I don’t believe making pseudoephedrine only available via a doctor’s prescription will curtail the meth problem in our commonwealth,” Floyd said in a press release. “By placing more responsibility on pharmacists who already have a monitoring system for pseudoephedrine sales, we can gain better control on those who are purchasing the product to make meth while not punishing those who need pseudoephedrine for legitimate health purposes.”

Floyd's House Bill 376, which he said he wrote after consulting with Bardstown pharmacists, would allow pharmacists to dispense the drugs to "a person evidencing physical symptoms treatable by those products," according to the bill summary, and "would require pharmacists to ask a series of questions to those trying to purchase a pseudoephedrine product," the Standard reports. It would also require thrm to put the information into the state's electronic tracking system for prescriptions.

"Local pharmacist Leon Claywell already uses a screening system to determine why a customer is buying medicine containing pseudoephedrine, Floyd said. If he thinks it is not for a legitimate purpose, he refuses to sell it," the Standard reports.