Community and hospital pharmacists in Romania are valuable to healthcare, but their involvement in multidisciplinary teams is still not up to the mark when measured against international standards. A systematic literature review search was conducted using the PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus databases, following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, complemented by a bibliometric analysis with VOSviewer, to identify research trends and key contributors in the field. This review examines studies such as counseling effectiveness, clinical contribution, and professional obstacles faced by pharmacists in Romania published between 2014 and 2025 that mainly focus on community practice, integration into hospitals, and new areas such as pharmacogenetics and pharmacovigilance. The studies surveyed patients on how they evaluated counseling, tracked clinical pharmacists who adjusted drug doses through therapeutic monitoring, checked whether healthcare professionals followed safety warnings, and checked management systems within institutions. High costs and the removal of pharmacovigilance from compulsory university courses add to the obstacles. Romanian pharmacists already possess the knowledge or skills to raise treatment success and shield patients from unsafe self-medication through timely clinical advice. To use this capacity fully, the system must change, including health insurance covering pharmaceutical services, compulsory updating of course content, and official interdisciplinary protocols for this potential to be fully exploited.

Due to their diverse phytochemical composition, medicinal plants belonging to the families Amaryllidaceae, Lamiaceae, and Myrtaceae possess antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. In this study, six ethanolic extracts of Allium ursinum, Allium sativum, Allium cepa, Salvia rosmarinus, Ocimum basilicum, and Syzygium aromaticum were analyzed by HS-SPME GC-MS and HPLC. Their chemical composition was evaluated and compared by chemometrics and their biological activity determined by an antimicrobial assay. A total of 72 compounds was detected (terpenoids, phenolic derivatives, fatty acids, and phytosterols). In Allium species, phytosterols were mainly abundant, whereas O. basilicum extracts were characterized by high contents of linalool and S. rosmarinus by 2-hydroxychalcone and 4-hydroxybutanoic acid lactone. Principal component analysis distinguished chemically species-specific chemical profiles, whilst the HPLC evaluation resulted in the highest quercetin content in S. rosmarinus extracts, which also displayed the best antibacterial effect against Staphylococcus aureus. Despite the observed correlation between the quercetin content and antibacterial activity, no definitive relation could be established without biological replicates, MIC evaluation, and tests with isolated compounds.