Pharmacology

Rising health care costs have for many years focused congressional attention upon the development and availability of prescription drugs. Recently,...

Learning and understanding how medicine acts, what the body does to the drug, with both the beneficial and potentially deleterious effects it has, ...

Dexamethasone is a potent, long-term acting synthetic glucocorticoid class of steroid drugs that have anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant prope...

In this book, the authors present new developments in the study of antibiotic therapy. Topics discussed include analgesia and sedation in severe se...

The Internet offers consumers a convenient method for purchasing drugs that is sometimes cheaper than buying from traditional brick-and-mortar phar...

Vincristine is a naturally occurring alkaloid isolated from the leaves of the plant Catharanthus roseus. It has a wide range of clinical applicatio...

This book, published in two volumes, Volume 1 and Volume 2, respectively, represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of current li...

It has been over 100 years since Dr. Paul Ehrlich referred to an ideal therapeutic agent able to target and treat only a highly specific site in an...

Malaria-like febrile illnesses have been described since Hippocrates as fevers that were periodic and associated with marshes and swamps. The word ...

Since their introduction to the market in the 1960s, benzodiazepines, and among them diazepam, have become one of the most frequently prescribed ps...

Lidocaine is a short-acting local anaesthetic agent first developed in 1943. It was one of a number of synthetic local anaesthetic agents developed...

This book offers readers an overview of the field of toxicology while incorporating historical context with present day advances. The chapters, wri...

Oxytocin (OT), a hormone with a well-known function in childbirth, breast milk secretion, formation of the mother-infant bonding process and social...

We are constantly exposed to a plethora of different chemicals, the majority of which are mostly uncharacterised with respect to their biological p...

Today, the world witnesses a global resurgence of interests in plant-based drugs and cosmetics. The revival of traditional health care systems, whi...

Diuretics are drugs that increase urine water and salt excretion, and for that reason they are widely used for treating arterial hypertension, and ...