Editorial
The main purpose of this publication is to generate awareness about the different common diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer, asthma, infections diseases; their cause, prevention and precaution to all population. It is not an original work rather a blending of the extracts of documents published in different authentic journals, reference books and online publications.

Pharmacy profession is a philosophy of practice in which the patient is the primary beneficiary of the pharmacist’s action. One of the main responsibilities of the pharmacist does also include acting as information source of different diseases for health care professionals and the public. Thus they can play an important role for promoting public health.

This ideology promoted us to publish this booklet on the occasion of “Pharma Exhibition-2009” (arranged by the dept. of pharmacy, IIUC) to create strong sense of the common diseases their causes, prevention and precaution to the general public. I am thanking my beloved student’s (Anis, Akbar, Mushfiq, Shahed, Shuvo, Even, Nazmul and Manna) from my heart. Their cordial hard work and efforts have made it possible to publish this booklet. Our efforts will be successful if general public are benefited by this writings.

Mr.Md. Ariful Islam
Lecturer,Department of Pharmacy,
International Islamic University Chittagong.
&
Chief Coordinator
Pharmacology Booth
Pharma Exhibition-2009