Pharmacology

Formaldehyde is a building block in the synthesis of many other compounds of specialised and industrial significance. It exhibits most of the chemi...

Congress reauthorized two laws in 2007, the Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA) and the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA). PREA require...

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (generally referred to as the Medicare Modernization Act, or MMA) substa...

Dextromethorphan (DM) is an over-the-counter antitussive drug that is also used as one of the active ingredients in many cold and cough medicines. ...

Carbamazepine (CBZ), one of the most used antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), was introduced on the market in the early 1960''s and ever since, it has beco...

This book discusses the problems in studying the effect of maternal drug use during pregnancy and delivery outcome, including congenital malformati...

Since the mid-1990s, a revolution in regards to prescribing antipsychotics has taken place. Once utilized only for schizophrenia, the newer, second...

Magnetic colloids are very promising stimuli-sensitive materials for drug delivery because of their magnetic field responsiveness. An applied magne...

Valproic acid (VPA) is a short chain fatty acid which has been used medicinally to treat conditions as far reaching as epilepsy, Bipolar disorder, ...

Gemcitabine was synthesised in the 1980s at Lilly Research Laboratories (Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, IN). It was initially developed as an ant...

The drug package that a community pharmacist hands to a patient, or a hospital pharmacist sends to a patient''s bedside, or a physician administers...

Congress has exhibited a strong and ongoing interest in facilitating the development of new, innovative pharmaceuticals for the marketplace while r...

A xenobiotic is a chemical which is found in an organism but which is not normally produced or expected to be present in it. Specifically, drugs su...

Mifepristone is a steroid compound derived from the estrane progestins. This compound strongly binds to the progesterone and glucocorticoid recepto...

The role of adenosine and adenosine receptors in normal cell physiology and in diseases has been an area of active research over the last several d...

Currently, used anticancer drugs are found to be poorly water soluble and highly potent in nature. They act non-selectively on both tumour as well ...